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Bronchial Asthma: A Guide for Practical Understanding and Treatment (Current Clinical Practice) [Hardcover]

M. Eric Gershwin (Editor), Timothy E. Albertson (Editor)

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Current Clinical Practice January 15, 2006
A fully updated edition of a widely respected classic on the diagnosis and management of asthma in a variety of patient subpopulations. Though this fifth edition continues to emphasize the definition, medications, and use of asthma treatment plans, it also focuses on the special needs patient, including the pediatric patient, the pregnant patient, and the patient undergoing surgery, as well as on the perennial issues of exercise and asthma, pulmonary aspergillosis, occupation, recreational drug use, and psychological/social considerations. Highlights for the fifth edition include a liberal use of tables and charts to make the book more practical and user-friendly, updates on the many new pharmaceuticals used to treat asthma, and first-time sections on food sensitivity and the diagnosis of asthma.

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"...This book will clearly establish its value for those who treat reversible airway disease. Lucidly written, with a cogent chapter format flowing from pathogenic principles to more detailed clinical appreciation...an invaluable compendium for the clinician who is called on to care for the patient with asthma."
-New England Journal of Medicine

"This book would be of value to any clinician dealing with asthmatic patients. Pulmonary physicians and allergists will also find this text to be an excellent review and an aid for focusing on clinical problems."
-Journal of the American Medical Association

"Overall, this book provides a concise and thorough review of asthma management, directed at primary care providers....There are excellent discussion on risk factors for developing asthma and on managing asthma in children, adults, and pregnancy....There are also excellent sections of infections and environment, exercise-induced asthma, occupational asthma, alternative therapies, and self-management programs....The thorough text and many useful tables and illustrations make this book an excellent resources for primary caregivers and anyone with an interest in asthma." - CANADIAN FAMILY PHYSICIAN

"...offers chapters written by some of the most respected authors in the field...a valuable reference book for primary care physicians as well as specialists who care for patients with asthma."
-Pediatric Allergy and Immunology

"...this book provides a concise and thorough review of asthma management...The thorough text and many useful tables and illustrations make this book an excellent resource for primary caregivers and anyone with an interest in asthma." - Canadian Family Physician

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Hailed by professional journals and esteemed by primary care doctors everywhere, Bronchial Asthma: A Guide for Practical Understanding and Treatment has been fully updated to help physicians face the challenge of diagnosis and the management of asthma in every variety of patient subpopulation. Although this fifth edition continues to emphasize the definition, medications, and use of asthma treatment plans, it also focuses on the special needs patient, including the pediatric patient, the pregnant patient, and the patient undergoing surgery, as well as on the perennial issues of exercise and asthma, pulmonary aspergillosis, occupation, recreational drug use, and psychological/social considerations. Highlights for the fifth edition include a liberal use of tables and charts to make the book more practical and user-friendly, updates on the many new pharmaceuticals used to treat asthma, and first-time sections on food sensitivity and the diagnosis of asthma.
Authoritative and easy to use, Bronchial Asthma: A Guide for Practical Understanding and Treatment, Fifth Edition, continues the high standard established by the earlier editions, providing a basic framework for successful individualized treatment of all patients suffering from this debilitating disease.

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Key Phrases - Statistically Improbable Phrases (SIPs): (learn more)
lifetime asthma prevalence, asthma attack prevalence, bronchoprovocation challenge testing, relapse asthma, sputum eosinophil counts, specific inhalation challenge, asthma camps, antileukotriene drugs, asthma action plan, lung volume measurements, current asthma, blockade theory, pulmonary function laboratory, asthmatic phenotype, maternal asthma, inhaled furosemide, asthma management plan, sputum eosinophils, acute asthma exacerbation, pregnant asthmatic, asthma outcomes, patients with asthma, asthma phenotype, occupational asthma, sulfite sensitivity
Key Phrases - Capitalized Phrases (CAPs): (learn more)
Clin Immunol, United States, Respir Crit Care Med, Clin Exp Allergy, Eur Respir, Current Clinical Practice, Humana Press Inc, Ann Allergy Asthma Immunol, Cochrane Database Syst Rev, Respir Med, National Heart, American Thoracic Society, Puerto Ricans, Age Group, United Kingdom, New Zealand, The Pulmonary Function Laboratory, Obstet Gynecol, Ear Respir, Expert Panel Report, American Lung Association, Alternative Therapies, Pediatr Pulmonol, Arch Intern Med, Genetics of Asthma
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