Principles of Pulmonary Medicine, 8th Edition: A Comprehensive Guide

By Steven E. Weinberger MD MACP FRCP, Barbara A. Cockrill MD, Jess Mandel MD FACP

Overview: This 8th edition of Principles of Pulmonary Medicine provides a broad overview of the fast-changing field of pulmonary medicine, integrating clinical topics with underlying physiologic, pathophysiologic, and basic science concepts. It explains and illustrates challenging concepts in a readable and digestible fashion, making it an essential reference for medical students, trainees, and those looking for a practical update on both acute and chronic pulmonary diseases.

Key Features:

• Physiologic Concepts: The book presents physiologic concepts, pathogenetic and pathophysiologic mechanisms, and radiologic and pathologic correlates of disease in a clear, understandable manner.
• Content Updates: This edition features extensive content updates on interstitial lung disease, emerging and/or viral infections (including COVID-19), lung cancer, asthma, and new biologic and immunologic treatments available for a variety of diseases.
• Visuals: It contains excellent visuals for understanding and interpreting pulmonary disease with easy-to-understand anatomic illustrations and accompanying radiologic and pathophysiologic images, now all in full color for the first time. This edition provides even more images, especially chest radiographs and CT scans, that offer more examples of clinical disorders.
• Therapeutic Strategies: The book provides therapeutic strategies, including evidence for assessing relative benefits, harms, and costs.
• Appendices: It includes useful appendices that provide simplified methods for interpreting pulmonary function tests and arterial blood gases, while also presenting sample problems that test the reader’s ability to use respiratory equations, assess pulmonary function abnormalities, and interpret arterial blood gases.
• Online Content: The book provides access to extensive online content such as author commentaries, video clips, audio recordings of lung sounds, and over 200 case-based self-assessment questions modeled after the USMLE exam.
• Margin Notes: It includes margin notes throughout the text that summarize the major points and concepts and allow the reader to quickly review the material.
• eBook Version: An eBook version is included with purchase. The eBook allows you to access all of the text, figures, and references, with the ability to search, customize your content, make notes and highlights, and have content read aloud.

Product Details:

Publisher: Elsevier

Edition: 8th edition

Publication Date: August 15, 2023

Language: English

Pages: 448

ISBN-10: 0323880568

ISBN-13: 978-0323880565