From the Publisher:  

     Compiled by specialists from the Cochrane Collaboration Airways Management Group, Evidence-based Respiratory Medicine is the first major evidence-based text in adult respiratory medicine.

     Providing a comprehensive summary of the best treatments for the most important respiratory diseases, some of the world's leading physicians review the evidence for a broad range of treatments using evidence-based principles. Essential information is presented in an easy-to-understand format, with the most important clinical implications summarized in each chapter.

     Evidence-based Respiratory Medicine tackles the big clinical questions in diagnosis and treatment, presenting treatment options which take into account the individual patient's needs.

Table of Contents:

1 Practicing Evidence-Based Respiratory Medicine

1.1     Introduction

1.2     Diagnostic Strategies
          1.2.1   Presenting Symptoms
          1.2.2   Lung Function Testing
          1.2.3   Chest Radiographic and Computerized Tomography Patterns
          1.2.4   Diagnostic Strategies in Pulmonary Embolism:  An Evidence-Based Approach
          1.2.5   Screening for Lung Cancer

1.3     Therapeutics:  General Issues
         1.3.1   Adherence and Self-Management
         1.3.2   Corticosteroid-Induced Osteoporosis
         1.3.3   Helping People to Stop Smoking

2  Asthma

2.1     Acute Exacerbations

2.2     Chronic Therapy:  β-agonists, Short-Acting, Long-Acting β-2 Agonists

2.3     Inhaled Corticosteroids in the Treatment of Asthma

2.4     Anti-Leukotrienes

2.5     Asthma Education

2.6     Non-Pharmacological and Complementary Interventions to Manage Asthma

2.7     Difficult Asthma

2.8     Novel Therapies in Asthma:  Long-Acting β2-Agonists Inhaled Corticosteroids

3  Chronic Obstructive Pulmonary Disease

3.1     Chronic Obstructive Pulmonary Disease-Acute Exacerbations

3.2     Anticholinergic Bronchodilators in Chronic Obstructive Pulmonary Disease Therapy

3.3     Inhaled Corticosteroids in Chronic Obstructive Pulmonary Disease

3.4     Combination of Inhaled Corticosteroids and Long-Acting β2-Agonists in Chronic Obstructive Pulmonary Disease

3.5     Systemic Corticosteroids in Stable Chronic Obstructive Pulmonary Disease

3.6     Lung Volume Reduction

4  Infection

4.1     Bronchitis and Sinusitis

4.2     Community-Acquired Pneumonia

4.3     Pulmonary Tuberculosis

4.4     Influenza:  Vaccination and Treatment

4.5     Bronchiectasis

4.6     Adult Cystic Fibrosis

4.7     Antibiotics in Chronic Obstructive Pulmonary Disease, Bronchiectasis and Cystic Fibrosis

5  Respiratory Failure/ Sleep Disordered Breathing

5.1     Respiratory Rehabilitation

5.2     Non-Invasive Ventilation in Acute Respiratory Failure

5.3     Non-Invasive Positive Pressure Ventilation in Stable Patients with Chronic Obstructive Pulmonary Disease.  What is the Evidence?

5.4     The Treatment of the Obstructive Sleep Apnea-Hypoapnea Syndrome

5.5     Long-Term Oxygen Therapy for Chronic Respiratory Failure in Chronic Obstructive Pulmonary Disease

6  Diffuse Lung Disease/ Pleural Disease/ Thromboembolism

6.1     Diffuse Lung Disease
          6.1.1   The Treatment of Cryptogenic Fibrosing Alveolitis
          6.1.2   Evidence-Based Approach to Treatment of Sarcoidosis
          6.1.3   Hypersensitivity Pneumonitis

6.2     Pleural Disease

6.3     Therapy of Pulmonary Thromboembolism:  An Evidence-Based Approach

6.4     Pulmonary Hypertension

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