Respiratory System

Chapter 5 covers respiratory diseases and respiratory failure, including clinical presentations of respiratory disease, assessment of diffuse lung disease, hypoxaemia, respiratory ...

This chapter describes the anaesthetic management of the patient with respiratory disease. It describes the assessment of respiratory function and preoperative respiratory investig...

Respiratory medicine is a diverse specialty involving common chronic diseases, rarer conditions, pulmonary involvement in systemic disorders, lung infections, tumours, and adverse ...

Respiratory failure (RF) is defined as the acute or chronic impairment of respiratory system function to maintain normal oxygen and CO2 values when breathing room air. ‘Oxygenation...

Intelligent Diagnosis of Lung Cancer and Respiratory Diseases presents information about diseases of the respiratory system and the relevant diagnostic imaging techniques. The book...

Influenza is a viral syndrome caused by a highly contagious viral infection. It presents with acute fever, respiratory symptoms, rigors, malaise, myalgia, and/or fatigue. Substanti...

When there is suspicion of respiratory pathology, the clinician’s role is to obtain a diagnosis accurately and, where possible, swiftly while subjecting the patient to the minimum ...

Respiratory tract malformations 58Benign sinonasal diseases 59Sinonasal malignancies 60Nasopharyngeal diseases 61Laryngeal diseases 62Respiratory failure 63Acute respiratory distre...