Description

Featuring the work of recognized worldwide experts, this user-friendly text presents the most current scientific information, diagnostic approaches, and management strategies for the care of children with acute and chronic respiratory diseases. A consistent chapter format enables you to rapidly and effortlessly locate the most current protocols on manifestations, etiologies, triggers, approaches to treatment, complications, and preventative strategies.

Table of contents

Part 1: General

Part 2: Applied Physiology

Part 3: Assessment

Part 4: Therapeutic Principles

Part 5: Respiratory Insults and Intensive Care

Part 6: Respiratory Disorders of Neonates and Infants

Part 7: Respiratory Infections

Part 8: Disorders with Known or Suspected Immunologic Etiologies

Part 9: Cardiopulmonary and Pulmonary Vascular Disorders

Part 10: Asthma

Part 11: Cystic Fibrosis

Part 12: Structural and Mechanical Abnormalities

Part 13: Miscellaneous Disorders