The Washington Manual® Pulmonary Medicine Subspecialty Consult is ideal for students working on an inpatient or outpatient medicine service, residents called on to do an inpatient consult, and for specialist fellows seeking information on pulmonology diagnosis and management.

Coverage Includes:

• Pulmonary function testing
• Interstitial lung diseases
• Asthma
• Solitary pulmonary nodule
• Community-acquired pneumonia
• Pulmonary embolus
• COPD
• Appropriate conduct and approach of a medical consultant
• Reviews of selected clinical trials

Contents

1. The Chest X-Ray
2. Pulmonary Function Testing
3. Exercise Testing
4. Bronchoscopy
5. Oxygen Delivery Devices
6. Noninvasive Ventilation
7. Singultus
8. Cough
9. Asthma
10. Chronic Obstructive Pulmonary Disease
11. Smoking Cessation
12. Community-Acquired Pneumonia
13. Hospital-Acquired Pneumonia
14. Tuberculosis
15. Fungal Pulmonary Infections
16. Viral Pulmonary Infections
17. Cystic Fibrosis
18. Hemoptysis
19. Diffuse Alveolar Hemorrhage
20. Pulmonary Vasculitis
21. Pulmonary Embolism and Deep Venous Thrombosis
22. Pulmonary Hypertension
23. Pleural Diseases
24. Radiographic Evaluation of Pleural Disease
25. Sleep-Disordered Breathing
26. Interstitial Lung Diseases
27. Occupational Lung Disease
28. Solitary Pulmonary Nodule
29. Cavitary Lung Disease
30. Diseases of the Mediastinum
31. Pulmonary Consultative Problems in Specific Patient Populations
32. Lung Transplantation

Index

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