Bertrand P., Sanchez Ignacio (eds.) Pediatric Respiratory Diseases: A Comprehensive Textbook

Springer, 2020. — 797 p. — ISBN: 978-3-030-26960-9This is a comprehensive and authoritative textbook on pediatric pulmonology. Edited by Pablo Bertrand and Ignacio Sánchez, renowned academics and pediatricians from the Pontifical Catholic University of Chile, it encompasses five sections and 74 chapters, presenting and discussing the most important topics related to pediatric respiratory diseases. Written and presented in a simple and didactic format, it intends to ease learning and settlement of doubts in pediatric respiratory diseases. The reader is naturally introduced into the physiology, diagnosis, syndromes, diseases and the treatment associated with the respiratory pathologies affecting children. The chapters include algorithms for the treatment of various syndromes and updated treatment proposals grounded in evidence-based medicine for more than 50 pulmonary diseases. Pediatric Respiratory Diseases – A Comprehensive Textbook is an essential reference for the proper clinical approach to respiratory diseases in children. It is intended for all interns, residents and fellows with interest in pediatric pulmonary medicine, as well as practicing physicians, general practitioners, pediatricians and pulmonologists who face pediatric respiratory disorders in daily clinical practice.History of Specialist Training in Respiratory Diseases
Development of the Respiratory System
Physiological Basis of the Respiratory System
Clinical History and Physical Examination of the Respiratory System
Physiological Evolution of Sleep
Immunological Defense Mechanisms of the Respiratory System
New Frontiers in Research on the Respiratory System
Evaluation of Pulmonary Function in Infants and Preschool Children
Assessment of Pulmonary Function in Schoolchildren and Adolescents
Assessment of Respiratory Muscular Function in Patients with Neuromuscular Diseases
Study of Images in Respiratory Diseases
Assessing Arterial Oxygen Saturation
Assessment of Sleep in Newborns to Adolescents
Study of Infectious Agents in Respiratory Diseases
Assessment of the Airway with Flexible Endoscopy
Assessment of the Airway with Rigid Endoscopy
Children with Respiratory Failure
Children with Persistent Cough
Infants with Persistent Tachypnea
Children with Persistent Stridor
Children with Snoring
Children with Recurrent Wheezing
Hemoptysis in Children
Infants with an Apparent Life-Threatening Event
Immunosuppressed Children with Lung Infection
Respiratory Complications in Children with Neurological Diseases
A Children with an Airway Foreign Body
Epidemiology of Respiratory Infections
Laryngitis (Croup)
Bronchiolitis
Community-Acquired Pneumonia
Atypical Pneumonia
Complicated Pneumonia
Pneumonia Caused by Emerging Viral Agents
Pulmonary Tuberculosis
Respiratory Diseases in the Newborn
Bronchopulmonary Dysplasia