内容简介

In view of the importance of pulmonary and critical care medicine to the field of internal medicine and the speed with which the scientific basis of the discipline is evolving, this Sectional was developed. The purpose of this book is to provide the readers with an overview of the field of pulmonary and critical care medicine. To achieve this end, this Sectional comprises the key pulmonary and critical care medicine chapters in Harrison's Principles of Internal Medicine, 17th edition, contributed by leading experts in the fields. This Sectional is designed not only for physicians-in-training, but also for medical students, practicing clinicians, and other health care professionals who seek to maintain adequately updated knowledge of this rapidly advancing field. The editors believe that this book will improve the reader's knowledge of the discipline, as well as highlight its importance to the field of internal medicine.1

目录

Contributors

Preface

SECTION I DIAGNOSIS OF RESPIRATORY DISORDERS

1 Approach to the Patient with Disease of the Respiratory System

2 Dyspnea and Pulmonary Edema

3 Cough and Hemoptysis

4 Hypoxia and Cyanosis

5 Disturbances of Respiratory Function

6 Diagnostic Procedures in Respiratory Disease

7 Atlas of Chest Imaging

SECTION II DISEASES OF THE RESPIRATORY SYSTEM

8 Asthma

9 Hypersensitivity Pneumonitis and Pulmonary Infiltrates with Eosinophilia

10 Environmental Lung Disease

11 Pneumonia

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