Handbook of Pulmonary & Critical Care Medicine

by SK Jindal

The book Handbook of Pulmonary & Critical Care Medicine is a handbook to pulmonologists to know primary diseases of the lungs along with systemic illnesses and sister-specialties. The book gives information on the applied respiratory physics, respiratory function and mechanics, and lung function test in the initial chapters followed by basics about arterial blood gases, mycobacteria, immunology and pathogenesis. Succeeding chapters deal with pulmonary tuberculosis, molecular diagnosis of TB, its management and prevention, extrapulmonary TB, MDR-TB, HIV coinfection, nontuberculous mycobacterial infections, community-acquired pneumonia, pulmonary mycetoma, nosocomial pneumonia, other respiratory tract infections (bacterial, viral, fungal, parasitic), asthma, bronchopulmonary aspergillosis, chronic obstructive pulmonary disease, lung diseases, comorbidities, lung cancer, pulmonary hypertension, pulmonary thromboembolism, respiratory distress syndrome, pleural effusion and therapeutic interventions among several other topics.

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