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Lecture Notes: Respiratory Medicine

Pisa, Itlay

Edited by S.J. Bourke
Published by Blackwell Publishing, Oxford, UK
Pages: 232. Price: �18.99. ISBN-13: 978-1405153447

Lecture Notes: Respiratory Medicine
The time we have available to read a book is becoming shorter and shorter. This is why pocket books, to be read while travelling, are so successful. Currently, pocket books are successfully used to summarise the plots of works of fiction, but could this same approach be applied to scientific publications?

This concise book provides an excellent summary of the clinical aspects of respiratory medicine, which will prove useful for medical students, doctors, specialist respiratory nurses, physiotherapists, respiratory technicians and physiologists. The book addresses the principles of respiratory medicine and provides a comprehensive summary of all respiratory diseases. Throughout the book updated clinical guidelines and advances have been included, as well as key points.

The book provides a review of respiratory anatomy and physiology, which is useful to fully understand respiratory diseases, information on history taking and examination, issues that are often neglected by young doctors. The information on pulmonary function tests, including respiratory muscle function, is concise yet well described. A relatively detailed chapter is devoted to radiology of the thorax and detailed clinical sections deal with the most relevant respiratory diseases including carcinoma, vascular diseases and sleep-disordered breathing. Several images and flow charts help the reader with a patient-centred approach to the subject.

I have found this book useful. It is an easy read that makes difficult concepts easy to understand. I would have been even happier if some clinical aspects of acute/chronic respiratory failure and respiratory consequences of neurological diseases had been addressed in a more in-depth manner.

I would recommend this book not only to medical students but also to senior doctors. However, I would add a note of caution that this book only provides a summary of respiratory medicine. Do not stop after the easy reading, full education and understanding requires much more sweat and pain!

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