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

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

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