Bronchial Asthma A Guide for Practical Understanding and Treatment /

• Corporate Author: SpringerLink (Online service)
• Other Authors: Gershwin, M. Eric (Editor), Albertson, Timothy E. (Editor)
• Format: Electronic eBook
• Language: English
• Published: Totowa, NJ : Humana Press, 2006.
• Edition: Fifth Edition.
• Series: Current Clinical Practice
• Subjects: Medicine.; Internal medicine.; Primary care (Medicine).; Medicine & Public Health.; Primary Care Medicine.; Internal Medicine.

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. Altho...

Table of Contents:

• Definitions and Host Responses to Bronchospasm
• The Origins and Characteristics of Asthma
• Patient Management
• Diagnosing Allergic Asthma
• How the Pulmonary Function Laboratory Contributes to the Management of the Patient With Asthma
• Treatment of Asthma in Children
• Adult-Onset Asthma
• The Patient With Asthma in the Emergency Department
• Severe Asthma
• Complementary/Alternative Therapies in Asthma
• Special Clinical Problems
• The Pregnant Patient With Asthma
• Infectious and Environmental Triggers of Asthma
• Exercise-Induced Asthma
• How Can Foods, Additives, and Drugs Affect the Patient With Asthma?
• Allergic Bronchopulmonary Aspergillosis
• Occupational Asthma
• Anesthesia for Patients With Asthma
• 16 How Recreational Drugs Affect Asthma
• Living With Asthma
• Self-Management in Asthma
• The Challenge of Asthma in Minority Populations
• Asthma and the Law.