Rating: 0 out of 5 stars
0 ratings
Ebook116 pages1 hour
Geriatric Chest Disease
By Luke Harris
Rating: 0 out of 5 stars
()
About this ebook
Geriatric Chest Disease presents a guide to the management of chest disease in the elderly. It discusses the treatment and multiple pathology of the said disease. It addresses the normal changes in the aging lung. Some of the topics covered in the book are the symptoms of dyspnoea; cough; haemoptysis; the physical signs of diffuse airways obstruction; bronchography; bronchial carcinoma; the pneumonias; pulmonary tuberculosis; pulmonary thrombo-embolic disease; pleural effusion; fungal infection; and systemic lupus erythematosus. The symptomatic management of fractured ribs and hiatus hernia are covered. The respiratory disease associated with other systemic diseases is discussed. The text describes the adverse effects of drugs. A study of the exercise ventilation, heart-rate and electrocardiogram is presented. A chapter is devoted to the arterial blood gases and rheumatoid disease. Another section focuses on the functional effects and treatment of diffuse fibrosing alveolitis. The book can provide useful information to scientists, doctors, students, and researchers.
Read more from Luke Harris
Clinical Respiratory Physiology Let's Get Real: Discover the reasons most Australian property investors fail to get the results they desire Rating: 0 out of 5 stars0 ratingsProperty Fit: Get your property portfolio in shape for financial freedom Rating: 0 out of 5 stars0 ratingsLet's Get Real – Revised Edition: A realistic approach to investing in property in any market Rating: 0 out of 5 stars0 ratings
Related to Geriatric Chest Disease
Related ebooks
Alert Medical Series: Internal Medicine Alert III Rating: 0 out of 5 stars0 ratingsAlert Medical Series: Internal Medicine Alert I, II, III Rating: 0 out of 5 stars0 ratingsEchocardiography in Pediatric and Congenital Heart Disease: From Fetus to Adult Rating: 1 out of 5 stars1/5Myocardial Infarction And Cardiac Death Rating: 1 out of 5 stars1/5Acute Medical Emergencies: The Practical Approach Rating: 0 out of 5 stars0 ratingsA Family Doctor's Tale Rating: 0 out of 5 stars0 ratingsHunk Usmle - Special Senses Rating: 0 out of 5 stars0 ratingsHip Neck Fracture, A Simple Guide To The Condition, Diagnosis, Treatment And Related Conditions Rating: 0 out of 5 stars0 ratingsVentricular Septal Defect, A Simple Guide To The Condition, Treatment And Related Conditions Rating: 0 out of 5 stars0 ratingsRheumatology Board Review Rating: 0 out of 5 stars0 ratingsAlert Medical Series: Emergency Medicine Alert III Rating: 0 out of 5 stars0 ratingsGoing to Out-Patients Rating: 0 out of 5 stars0 ratingsSynovial Chondromatosis, A Simple Guide To The Condition, Diagnosis, Treatment And Related Conditions Rating: 0 out of 5 stars0 ratingsPancoast Syndrome, (Apical Lung Cancer) A Simple Guide To The Condition, Diagnosis, Treatment And Related Conditions Rating: 0 out of 5 stars0 ratingsECGs for Beginners Rating: 0 out of 5 stars0 ratingsTorsade De Pointes, A Simple Guide To The Condition, Diagnosis, Treatment And Related Conditions Rating: 0 out of 5 stars0 ratingsResearch Surgery and Care of the Research Animal: Surgical Approaches to the Organ Systems Rating: 0 out of 5 stars0 ratingsOptimal Life: Essentials of Asthma Rating: 0 out of 5 stars0 ratingsQuick Draw Anatomy for Anaesthetists, second edition Rating: 0 out of 5 stars0 ratingsAnesthesia for Congenital Heart Disease Rating: 0 out of 5 stars0 ratingsCase Taking Proforma: Medicine, Paediatrics & Obg Rating: 0 out of 5 stars0 ratingsRespiratory Acidosis, A Simple Guide To The Condition, Diagnosis, Treatment And Related Conditions Rating: 0 out of 5 stars0 ratingsA Simple Guide to Brain Hypoxia, Diagnosis, Treatment and Related Conditions Rating: 0 out of 5 stars0 ratings2 Minute Medicine's The Classics in Medicine: Summaries of the Landmark Trials, 1e (The Classics Series) Rating: 0 out of 5 stars0 ratingsThe Failsafe Method for Clinical Examinations Rating: 0 out of 5 stars0 ratingsGeriatric Emergencies: A Discussion-based Review Rating: 0 out of 5 stars0 ratingsAdvances in Pathobiology and Management of Paget’s Disease of Bone Rating: 0 out of 5 stars0 ratingsLowe Syndrome (Oculocerebrorenal syndrome) A Simple Guide To The Condition, Diagnosis, Treatment And Related Conditions Rating: 0 out of 5 stars0 ratingsWhen Your Doctor Has Bad News: Simple Steps to Strength, Healing, and Hope Rating: 5 out of 5 stars5/5The Rheumatic Diseases Rating: 0 out of 5 stars0 ratings
Medical For You
The Lost Book of Simple Herbal Remedies: Discover over 100 herbal Medicine for all kinds of Ailment Inspired By Barbara O'Neill Rating: 0 out of 5 stars0 ratingsHolistic Herbal: A Safe and Practical Guide to Making and Using Herbal Remedies Rating: 4 out of 5 stars4/5The Hormone Reset Diet: Heal Your Metabolism to Lose Up to 15 Pounds in 21 Days Rating: 4 out of 5 stars4/5Adult ADHD: How to Succeed as a Hunter in a Farmer's World Rating: 4 out of 5 stars4/5The Vagina Bible: The Vulva and the Vagina: Separating the Myth from the Medicine Rating: 5 out of 5 stars5/5Period Power: Harness Your Hormones and Get Your Cycle Working For You Rating: 4 out of 5 stars4/5Rewire Your Brain: Think Your Way to a Better Life Rating: 4 out of 5 stars4/5Mediterranean Diet Meal Prep Cookbook: Easy And Healthy Recipes You Can Meal Prep For The Week Rating: 5 out of 5 stars5/5The Diabetes Code: Prevent and Reverse Type 2 Diabetes Naturally Rating: 4 out of 5 stars4/5What Happened to You?: Conversations on Trauma, Resilience, and Healing Rating: 4 out of 5 stars4/5The 40 Day Dopamine Fast Rating: 4 out of 5 stars4/5The Amazing Liver and Gallbladder Flush Rating: 5 out of 5 stars5/5Tight Hip Twisted Core: The Key To Unresolved Pain Rating: 4 out of 5 stars4/5ATOMIC HABITS:: How to Disagree With Your Brain so You Can Break Bad Habits and End Negative Thinking Rating: 5 out of 5 stars5/5Healthy Gut, Healthy You: The Personalized Plan to Transform Your Health from the Inside Out Rating: 4 out of 5 stars4/5Working Stiff: Two Years, 262 Bodies, and the Making of a Medical Examiner Rating: 4 out of 5 stars4/5Herbal Healing for Women Rating: 4 out of 5 stars4/5The Art of Dying Well: A Practical Guide to a Good End of Life Rating: 4 out of 5 stars4/5Woman: An Intimate Geography Rating: 4 out of 5 stars4/5The Big Fat Surprise: Why Butter, Meat and Cheese Belong in a Healthy Diet Rating: 4 out of 5 stars4/5Women With Attention Deficit Disorder: Embrace Your Differences and Transform Your Life Rating: 5 out of 5 stars5/5Summary of Dr. Gundry's Diet Evolution: Turn off the Genes That Are Killing You and Your Waistline Rating: 3 out of 5 stars3/5Gut: The Inside Story of Our Body's Most Underrated Organ (Revised Edition) Rating: 4 out of 5 stars4/5Hidden Lives: True Stories from People Who Live with Mental Illness Rating: 4 out of 5 stars4/5
Related podcast episodes
Acute pancreatitis: This BMJ Best Practice po... 0% found this document useful#221 Interstitial Lung Disease with Erin Narewski DO 0% found this document usefulREBOOT #137 Hyperkalemia Master Class with Joel Topf MD: Deconstruct the pathophysiology and management of hyperkalemia 100% found this document usefulCardiovascular | Electrocardiogram (ECG) 0% found this document usefulRound 9 (Seizure): CORRECTION: Ketamine not Keppra as potential induction agent for status epilepticus (32:40) 0% found this document usefulArterial Blood Gas (ABG) analysis: What is an ABG and how to read an ABG report. 0% found this document usefulIschaemic stroke: Ischaemic stroke is a lea... 0% found this document useful#210 Kidney Transplant for the Internist 100% found this document usefulEpisode 57 - Anticoagulants and Reversal with Dr. Shih 0% found this document useful
Related articles
ICU Doctors, Nurses Demoralized Over 'Needless' COVID-19 Misery. 'Patients Are Still Dying' Los Angeles TimesArticle
ICU Doctors, Nurses Demoralized Over 'Needless' COVID-19 Misery. 'Patients Are Still Dying'
Dec 27, 2021
5 min readWorld’s Best Specialized hospitals 2021 NewsweekArticle
World’s Best Specialized hospitals 2021
Sep 18, 2020
8 min readWorld’s Best Specialized Hospitals 2021 NewsweekArticle
World’s Best Specialized Hospitals 2021
Nov 13, 2020
9 min readIncident Insight IF YOU CAN’T EQUALISE, ABORT Scuba DiverArticle
Incident Insight IF YOU CAN’T EQUALISE, ABORT
Sep 8, 2020
4 min readHiccups Have a Curious Connection to Cancer The AtlanticArticle
Hiccups Have a Curious Connection to Cancer
Apr 3, 2023
5 min readNegative Pressure Pulmonary Oedema/Haemorrhage Aster Medical Journal (AMJ)Article
Negative Pressure Pulmonary Oedema/Haemorrhage
Mar 1, 2022
1 Specialist Physician (Intensivist), Aster Al Raffah Hospital, Muscat, Oman. 2 Specialist General Surgeon, Aster Al Raffah Hospital, Muscat, Oman. 3 Specialist Anaesthesiologist, Aster Al Raffah Hospital, Muscat, Oman. Negative pressure pulmonary oe
7 min readA Mountain and a Molehill: Report of Two Cases of Ectopic Pancreas Aster Medical Journal (AMJ)Article
A Mountain and a Molehill: Report of Two Cases of Ectopic Pancreas
Sep 1, 2022
1Aster hospital, Mankhool, Dubai 2NMC Specialty Hospital, Al Nahdha, Dubai. Dr Amal Upadhyay, Consultant, Gastroenterology, Aster hospital Mankhool, Dubai. Email: dramal.upadhyay@asterhospital.com, Phone: +971 5540 31191 The presence of pancreatic ti
5 min readShould You Be Checking Your Own Oxygen Levels If You Have Coronavirus Symptoms? | Ann Robinson The GuardianArticle
Should You Be Checking Your Own Oxygen Levels If You Have Coronavirus Symptoms? | Ann Robinson
Apr 28, 2020
4 min readBeating Adrenal Fatigue What Doctors Don't Tell You Australia/NZArticle
Beating Adrenal Fatigue
Jan 22, 2023
4 min readLong Covid 101 FairladyArticle
Long Covid 101
Oct 20, 2023
◗ Why do you believe Covid is not a respiratory disease but a vascular disease? By about January 2020, we had the first reports from China about this terrible disease. There was a high mortality rate and the mode of death, in the end, was the same: r
11 min readMy Bleeding Heart Nose Your HorseArticle
My Bleeding Heart Nose
Aug 20, 2020
3 min readCoping with... TESTICULAR LUMPS AND SWELLINGS Woman's WeeklyArticle
Coping with... TESTICULAR LUMPS AND SWELLINGS
Oct 11, 2023
ADVICE FROM OUR WOMAN’S WEEKLY DOCTOR Lumps, cysts and swellings can occur in the testicles and surrounding tissue, which includes blood vessels, the spermatic cord, the epididymis (a long coiled tube on the back of each testicle that carries and st
4 min readTRUE Or FALSE Pick Me UpArticle
TRUE Or FALSE
Feb 17, 2022
1 min readThe Etiological Spectrum of Dizziness Observed at a Vertigo Clinic: A Study of a Dubai Outpatient Population Aster Medical Journal (AMJ)Article
The Etiological Spectrum of Dizziness Observed at a Vertigo Clinic: A Study of a Dubai Outpatient Population
Nov 6, 2020
6 min readCoronavirus FAQ: Remind Me, How Do You Define Mild, Moderate And Severe COVID? NPRArticle
Coronavirus FAQ: Remind Me, How Do You Define Mild, Moderate And Severe COVID?
Dec 24, 2021
4 min readUHL’s Anomaly: A Rare Form of Congestive Cardiac Failure in Early Childhood Aster Medical Journal (AMJ)Article
UHL’s Anomaly: A Rare Form of Congestive Cardiac Failure in Early Childhood
Sep 1, 2022
1Department of Paediatric Cardiology, Aster Ramesh Hospitals, Vijayawada, India Dr Murtaza Kamal, Consultant Paediatric Cardiology, Room no: 10, Aster Ramesh Hospitals, Vijayawada, India; Email: murtaza.vmmc@gmail.com UHL’s anomaly; congestive cardia
6 min readWhen Off Colour Turns Sinister Your HorseArticle
When Off Colour Turns Sinister
Mar 4, 2021
3 min read“We’re All Looking For Answers.” Newsweek InternationalArticle
“We’re All Looking For Answers.”
Apr 24, 2020
6 min read“We’re All and Learning On The Fly Looking For Answers.” NewsweekArticle
“We’re All and Learning On The Fly Looking For Answers.”
Apr 24, 2020
6 min readTracheal Stenting for Post-Tubercular Tracheal Stenosis in a Patient on ECMO Support Aster Medical Journal (AMJ)Article
Tracheal Stenting for Post-Tubercular Tracheal Stenosis in a Patient on ECMO Support
Nov 6, 2020
7 min readGo With The Flow Business Traveller Asia-Pacific EditionArticle
Go With The Flow
Dec 1, 2020
7 min readA 'Natural Death' May Be Preferable For Many Than Enduring CPR NPRArticle
A 'Natural Death' May Be Preferable For Many Than Enduring CPR
May 29, 2023
5 min readGo With The Flow Business TravellerArticle
Go With The Flow
Oct 30, 2020
7 min readA Deadly Bacillus India TodayArticle
A Deadly Bacillus
May 6, 2023
It is a disease caused by the bacteria Mycobacterium tuberculosis. Though it usually affects the lungs, it can also affect other parts of the body, such as the kidney, brain, liver or spine. However, not everyone who has the bacteria in their system
3 min readThe Problem: Cushing’s Syndrome Sporting GunArticle
The Problem: Cushing’s Syndrome
Dec 6, 2022
2 min readAir, Nitrox And Fatigue Scuba DiverArticle
Air, Nitrox And Fatigue
May 8, 2017
6 min readWhy Am I Having Trouble Swallowing Or Getting Food Down? The IndependentArticle
Why Am I Having Trouble Swallowing Or Getting Food Down?
Feb 26, 2024
4 min readCoping with... LUNG CANCER Woman's Weekly Living SeriesArticle
Coping with... LUNG CANCER
Dec 29, 2022
2 min readCommentary: We’re Starting To Understand Long COVID. Next We Can Fight It Los Angeles TimesArticle
Commentary: We’re Starting To Understand Long COVID. Next We Can Fight It
Aug 24, 2022
4 min readNot Like The Flu TRAILArticle
Not Like The Flu
Jul 2, 2020
3 min read
Related categories
Reviews for Geriatric Chest Disease
Rating: 0 out of 5 stars
0 ratings
0 ratings0 reviews
Book preview
Geriatric Chest Disease - Luke Harris
Enjoying the preview?
Page 1 of 1