Pediatric respiratory diseases: a comprehensive textbook

This book is a comprehensive and authoritative textbook on pediatric pulmonology. Edited by Pablo Bertrand and Ignacio Sánchez, renowned academics and pediatricians from the Pontifical Catholic University of Chile, it encompasses five sections and 74 chapters, presenting and discussing the most important topics related to pediatric respiratory diseases. Written and presented in a simple and didactic format, it intends to that ease learning and settlement of doubts in pediatric respiratory diseases. The reader is naturally introduced into the physiology, diagnosis, syndromes, diseases and the treatment associated to the respiratory pathologies affecting children. The chapters within this book includes algorithms for the treatment of syndromes and updated treatment proposals grounded on evidence-based medicine for more than 50 pulmonary diseases of pediatric importance. Pediatric Respiratory Diseases - A Comprehensive Textbook is an essential material for the proper clinical approach of respiratory diseases in children. It is intended for all interns, residents and fellows with interest in pediatric pulmonary medicine, as well as to physicians, general practitioners, pediatricians and pulmonologist who face pediatric respiratory disorders on their clinical practice.

TABLE OF CONTENTS -- CHAPTER 1: History of Training Specialists in Respiratory Diseases -- CHAPTER 2: Development of the Respiratory System -- CHAPTER 3: Physiological basis of the respiratory system -- CHAPTER 4: Clinical History and Physical Examination of the Respiratory System -- CHAPTER 5: Physiological Evolution of Sleep -- CHAPTER 6: Immunological Defense Mechanisms of the Respiratory System -- CHAPTER 7: New Frontiers in Research on the Respiratory System -- CHAPTER 8: Evaluating Pulmonary Function in Infants and Pre-School Children -- CHAPTER 9: Assessing Pulmonary Function in School-age Children and Adolescents -- CHAPTER 10: Assessing Respiratory Muscular Function in Patients with Neuromuscular Diseases -- CHAPTER 12: Assessing Arterial Oxygen Saturation -- CHAPTER 13: Assessing the Sleep of Newborns to Adolescents -- CHAPTER 14: Study of Infection Agents in Respiratory Diseases -- CHAPTER 15: Assessing the Airway with Flexible Endoscopy -- CHAPTER 16: Assessing the Airway with Rigid Endoscopy -- CHAPTER 17: Children with Respiratory Failure -- CHAPTER 18: Children with Persistent Cough -- CHAPTER 19: Infants with Persistent Tachypnea -- CHAPTER 20: Children with Persis…