Respiratory ailments are the most common reason for emergency admission to hospital, the most common reason to visit the GP, and cost the NHS more than any other disease area. This pocket-sized handbook allows instant access to a wealth of information needed in the day-to-day practice of respiratory medicine.

Revised and updated for its fourth edition, the Oxford Handbook of Respiratory Medicine is the must-have resource for respiratory trainees, internal medical trainees and other junior doctors in acute and internal medicine, medical students, and all clinicians caring for patients with respiratory problems. Concise, practical, and designed for rapid access to essential information, this handbook will ensure you have everything you need for the ward, clinic, or in the run up to exams.

All major respiratory diseases and symptoms are covered in practical, succinct chapters. This new edition includes the latest clinical guidelines from the British Thoracic Society and NICE, and covers key developments in the field. Additional detail has been added to more challenging topics such as sleep medicine, lung transplantation, and pulmonary disease in the immunocompromised patient, and there is a dedicated section on COVID-19. The handbook features unique sections on practical procedures and a symptoms section to aid in differential diagnosis and clinical management. Practical advice on management is integrated throughout and a dedicated section on respiratory emergencies ensures you can cope with any eventuality. This fourth edition will ensure you have all the information you need at your fingertips!

This is another blockbuster from the highly respected Oxford Medical Handbook Series and as expected, this is superb. Like the other siblings in the series, it is packed with huge amounts of information relevant to clinical practice, in the title topic... Crucially it is well written, easy to read and packed with information that is relevant to the topic. I would say, this is information dense but highly readable and written with dealing with patients in mind.

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• 1: Breathlessness

• 2: Chest pain

• 3: Chronic cough

• 4: Critically ill patient with respiratory disease

• 5: Diffuse alveolar haemorrhage

• 6: Diffuse lung disease

• 7: Haemoptysis

• 8: Pleural effusion

• 9: Post-operative breathlessness

• 10: Pregnancy and breathlessness

• 11: Preoperative assessment

• 12: Pulmonary disease in the immunocompromised-non-HIV

• 13: Pulmonary disease in the immunocompromised-HIV

• 14: Sleep and breathing

• 15: Unexplained ventilatory failure

• 16: Acute respiratory distress syndrome

• 17: Asbestos and the lung

• 18: Asthma

• 19: Bronchiectasis

• 20: Bronchiolitis

• 21: Chronic obstructive pulmonary disease

• 22: Connective tissue disease and the lung

• 23: Cor pulmonale

• 24: Cystic fibrosis

• 25: Drug and toxin-induced lung disease

• 26: Dysfunctional breathing

• 27: Eosinophilic lung disease

• 28: Extreme environments-flying, altitude, diving

• 29: Gastrointestinal disease and the lung

• 30: Hypersensitivity pneumonitis

• 31: Idiopathic interstitial pneumonias

• 32: Lung cancer

• 33: Mediastinal abnormalities

• 34: Paediatric lung disorders

• 35: Pleural effusion

• 36: Pneumoconioses

• 37: Pneumothorax

• 38: Pulmonary hypertension

• 39: Pulmonary thromboembolic disease

• 40: Rare lung diseases

• 41: Respiratory infection-bacterial

• 42: Respiratory infection-fungal

• 43: Respiratory infection-mycobacterial

• 44: Respiratory infection-parasitic

• 45: Respiratory infection-viral

• 46: Sarcoidosis

• 47: Sickle cell disease and the lung

• 48: Sleep apnoea and hypoventilation

• 49: Upper airway and tracheal disease

• 50: Vasculitis and the lung

• 51: Ethical considerations

• 52: Financial entitlements

• 53: Immunosuppressive drugs

• 54: Inhalers and nebulizers

• 55: Intensive care unit referral

• 56: Lung transplantation

• 57: Non-invasive ventilation

• 58: Oxygen therapy

• 59: Palliative care

• 60: Pulmonary rehabilitation

• 61: Smoking cessation

• 62: Airway management

• 63: Bronchoscopy

• 64: Chest drains

• 65: Cricothyroidotomy

• 66: Miscellaneous diagnostic tests

• 67: Pleural biopsy

• 68: Pleurodesis

• 69: Pleurodesis

• 70: Pneumothorax aspiration

• 71: Safe sedation

• 72: Thoracic ultrasound

• 73: Thoracoscopy

• 74: Tracheostomy