Studies of respiratory medicine. 2nd edition. Zilber A.P.

In this book, respiratory medicine (RM) is considered as a new independent section of healthcare, connected by its roots with medicine of critical conditions and pulmonology. The object of respiratory medicine is the respiratory failure of different pathogenesis in a patient in any of the clinical sections of healthcare. The book is divided into 3 parts: general problems of RM (I), its principles and methods (II) and the specifics of the RM in the sections of healthcare (III). In 18 chapters of the book, scientific foundations and the practical implementation of the principles of respiratory medicine in various clinical specialties are discussed. The strictly systematized material of the book is presented in an exciting form of an interview with the reader, with an abundance of historical certificates of the luminaries that created respiratory medicine. The author does not forget the humanitarian aspect of the education of the reader, refracting this through important clinical and physiological problems of respiratory medicine. This aspect is harmoniously woven into the argument about acute damage to the lungs, COPD, bronchial and heart asthma, pulmonary artery thromboembolism, sleepy apnea, etc. The reference apparatus of the book is convenient for the reader. For pulmonologists, anesthesiologists-resuscitators, general practitioners, students of senior courses and all clinicians who are faced with acute and chronic respiratory failure.