Fast Facts: Asthma

Improve Patient Self-management and Drug Use, Achieve Asthma Control

Jo A. Douglass, Timothy S.C. Hinks (Autoren)

Buch | Softcover

140 Seiten

2021 | 5th edition
S. Karger Publishers Ltd (Verlag)
978-1-912776-61-0 (ISBN)

Infos

Asthma is the world's most common chronic respiratory condition, affecting over 350 million people worldwide and inflicting a heavy individual, social and economic burden of disease. In this rapidly changing field, a plethora of new inhaled therapies and devices have emerged, as well as a better understanding of disease phenotyping and biology. This fully updated fifth edition of 'Fast Facts: Asthma' discusses recent trends in an easy-reference format, while highlighting imminent new developments, to provide a valuable resource for general practitioners, specialist asthma nurses and others with a keen interest in improving the outcomes of the very many people living with asthma. Table of Contents: * Pathophysiology * Epidemiology, etiology and natural history * Diagnosis and classification * Asthma medications * Management principles * Severe and refractory asthma * Acute asthma attacks * Preventing asthma attacks * Asthma in special circumstances * Developments

Produkt-Details

• Erscheinungsdatum: 02.06.2021
• Zusatzinfo: 32 fig., 32 in color, 24 tab.
• Sprache: englisch
• Gewicht: 210 g
• Themenwelt: Medizinische Fachgebiete ► Innere Medizin ► Pneumologie
• ISBN-10: 1-912776-61-8 / 1912776618
• ISBN-13: 978-1-912776-61-0 / 9781912776610
• Zustand: Neuware