Critical Diagnostic Thinking in Respiratory Care A Case-Based Approach

Name: Critical Diagnostic Thinking in Respiratory Care A Case-Based Approach
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ISBN: 9780721685489

ISBN-10: 072168548X

ISBN-13: 9780721685489

Edition: 2002

Authors: James K. Stoller, Eric D. Bakow, David L. Longworth

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This text demonstrates how to use information from the patient's history and physical examination to develop the differential diagnosis and presents cases typical of three broad clinical settings: outpatient, inpatient non-ICU, and ICU.

Book details

List price: $42.95
Copyright year: 2002
Publisher: Elsevier - Health Sciences Division
Publication date: 10/15/2001
Binding: Paperback
Pages: 255
Size: 6.25" wide x 9.00" long x 0.75" tall
Weight: 1.342
Language: English




Background An Introduction to Critical Diagnostic Thinking



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



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