Stockley / Rennard / Rabe Chronic Obstructive Pulmonary Disease

A Practical Guide to Management
1. Auflage 2008
ISBN: 978-0-470-75528-0
Verlag: John Wiley & Sons
Format: PDF
Kopierschutz: Adobe DRM (»Systemvoraussetzungen)

E-Book, Englisch, 912 Seiten, E-Book

The only international clinical textbook for COPD - one ofthe top 5 causes of death and disability worldwide
* * The only COPD textbook to include the latest national andinternational guidelines and the newer therapeutic agents in COPDtreatment
* International team of contributors covers all aspects of COPD- from physiology and epidemiology to diagnosis andtreatment
* Everything the busy physician needs to understand, diagnose andtreat the COPD patient:
- Structure and physiology of the respiratory system
- Clinical considerations and allied conditions
- Therapy (including current and developing treatments)
- Diagnostic tests used in daily practice

Autoren/Hrsg.

Stockley, Robert A.

Rennard, Stephen I

Rabe, Klaus

Celli, Bartolome

Über Autor(innen)

Professor Robert Stockley is the Head of Department at the QueenElizabeth Hospital in Birmingham. He is a respiratory physicianworking in the field of chronic obstructive pulmonary disease.
Professor Stephen Rennard is Larson Professor of Medicine in thePulmonary and Critical Care Medicine Section of the Department ofInternal Medicine at the University of Nebraska Medical Center inOmaha, Nebraska. He is the North American Editor for RespiratoryMedicine and Associate Editor for COPD for the EuropeanRespiratory Journal.
Professor Klaus Rabe is Professor of Pulmonary Medicine andChairman for the Department of Pneumology in the University ofLeiden. He has been active in various fields of respiratorymedicine in Europe and was the first European Associate Editor ofthe American Journal of Respiratory and Critical CareMedicine. He is co-Chief Editor of the European RespiratoryJournal.
Dr Bart Celli is Professor of Medicine at Tufts University inBoston and Chief of the Division of Pulmonary and Critical CareMedicine at the St Elizabeth's Medical Center at Tufts UniversitySchool of Medicine. He is the author of more than 120 publicationson COPD and is the co-editor of Baum's Textbook of PulmonaryDiseases and Hodgkin's Textbook in PulmonaryRehabilitation.