"Clinician's Guide to Chronic Obstructive Pulmonary Disease is well written...[it] provides a good, broad overview of COPD that many respiratory professions would find useful, especially if only a short, relatively inexpensive reference is needed."--Respiratory Care<br>
Timothy Q. Howes, Consultant Respiratory Physician, Department of Respiratory Medicine, Colchester General Hospital, UK David Bellamy, General Practitioner, James Fisher Medical Centre, Bournemouth, UK
1. - Introduction, definition and pathophysiology; 2. - Epidemiology of COPD; (a) - Natural history / (b) - Cigarette smoking; 3. - Diagnosis of COPD; (a) - History / (b) - Examination / (c) - Investigations; 4. - Disease prevention; (a) - Smoking / (b) - Flu vaccination / (c) - Pollution; 5. - Medical management; (a) - Pharmacological / (b) - Long term oxygen therapy / (c) - Ventilatory support / (d) - Rehabilitation / (e) - Lung volume reduction surgery; 6. - Education; 7. - COPD exacerbation; (a) Diagnosis and management / (b) Hospitalization and home care issues; 8. - Outcome measures; 9. - Primary and secondary care interface; 10. - Case histories