Critical Diagnostic Thinking in Respiratory Care - Elsevier eBook on VitalSource, 1st Edition

by James K. Stoller, MD, MS, FAARC, FCCP, Eric D. Bakow, MA, MPM, RRT and David Longworth, MD

Elsevier eBook on VitalSource

ISBN: 9781416067948

Publication Date: 10-15-2001

Page Count: 255

Imprint: Saunders

List Price: $36.99

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Key Features
Organisation by symptons - easier to is a unique feature which greatly helps the clinician to carry out a physical examination
Case-based approach - allows learning through real-life cases to evoke a broad differential diagnosis
Background chapter - to teach the techniques of gathering and analysing data from the patient history and physical examination in order to form a diagnosis
Differential Diagnosis Boxes - a unique feature - for easy reference
Interpreting Signs & Symptoms Tables - a table that breaks down the symptom into possible causes, mechanisms by which the symptom occurs and suggestive clinical features
All Chapters follow the same organisational format for ease of use
Key words are shortlisted at the start of each chapter, which helps to guide the reader to get the most out of the Chapter
The text is written at a level that is easy to understand for all health care students.

Section I: Background

An Introduction to Critical Diagnostic Thinking

Section II: Common Presentations in the Outpatient Setting

Chronic Cough
Recurrent Episodes of Purulent Phlegm
Progressive External Dyspnea
Progressive External Dyspnea in a 65 Year Old Man {tentative}
Fatigue Associated With Daytime Sleepiness
Solitary Pulmonary Nodule
Hemoptysis
Digital Clubbing
Bilateral Pleural Effusions
Unilateral Right-Sided Pleural Effusions
Platypnea
Chronic Hypercapnea
Community Acquired Pneumonia
Pleuritic Chest Pain
Non-Pleuritic Chest Pain
Upper Lobe Infiltrate
Wheezing
Stridor
Cavitary Pulmonary Infiltrate
Bilateral Hilar Adenopathy

Section III: Common Problems in the Non-ICU Adult Inpatient

Fever and a Pulmonary Infiltrate
Hypoxia
Hypercapnic Respiratory Failure
Atlectasis
Preoperative Evaluation
The Difficult-to-Wean Patient
The Weak Patient
Ventilatory Dys-synchrony
Hypotension with Mechanical Ventilation
Immediate Reintubation
Subcutaneous Emphysema
Bubbling Chest Tube
Refractory Hypoxemia
High Peak Airway Pressures
Ventilator-Associated Pneumonia

Authors

James K. Stoller, MD, MS, FAARC, FCCP, Jean Wall Bennett Professor of Medicine, Cleveland Clinic,Cleveland Clinic Lerner College of Medicine Chair, Education Institute Cleveland Clinic, Eric D. Bakow, MA, MPM, RRT, Process Improvement Specialist, Institute for Performance Improvement, University of Pittsburgh Medical Center, Pittsburgh, PA and David Longworth, MD, Chairman, Department of Infectious Diseases, The Cleveland Clinic Foundation, Cleveland, OH