Tuberculosis in Clinical Practice - Softcover

Softcover

ISBN 10: 3030755118 ISBN 13: 9783030755119

Verlag: Springer, 2022

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This book is targeted at ensuring frontline clinical staff including seniors, trainees and specialist nurses can easily reference the optimum investigation and management of potential TB cases. This will mirror the annual London Advanced TB course which aims to equip all of the team delivering care to have a working knowledge of the entire spectrum of the real life aspects of TB management ranging from investigation of active TB to latent screening in pre biologic therapy. It includes an update of MDR TB management and also the approaches needed to ensure the entire medico-social spectrum of TB care is addressed.

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Professor Onn Min Kon is a Respiratory Physician and Head of Service for Tuberculosis at Imperial College London Healthcare NHS Trust. He is also Professor of Respiratory Medicine at the National Heart & Lung Institute, Imperial College London. He chairs the UK National MDRTB clinical advice service and the British Thoracic Society Joint Tuberculosis Committee.

After he completed his medical degree in London, he trained in Respiratory and General Internal Medicine in North West London with placements at the Royal Brompton Hospital and St Mary’s Hospital. He was a clinical research fellow at the National Heart and Lung Institute, Imperial College London.

He has published over 100 peer reviewed papers including publications in Nature Medicine, the New England Journal of Medicine and the Lancet. He has also authored several book chapters, editorials and reviews.

His research interests include the clinical and immune diagnosis of tuberculosisand the delivery of care and management of the disease. He also participates in research evaluating the effects of infection on airways disease. Professor Kon organises the annual London Advanced TB course​

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This book is targeted at ensuring frontline clinical staff including seniors, trainees and specialist nurses can easily reference the optimum investigation and management of potential TB cases. This will mirror the annual London Advanced TB course which aims to equip all of the team delivering care to have a working knowledge of the entire spectrum of the real life aspects of TB management ranging from investigation of active TB to latent screening in pre biologic therapy. It includes an update of MDR TB management and also the approaches needed to ensure the entire medico-social spectrum of TB care is addressed.

Details zur Ausgabe

• Verlag: Springer
• Erscheinungsdatum: 2022
• Sprache: Englisch
• ISBN 10: 3030755118
• ISBN 13: 9783030755119
• Einband: Taschenbuch
• Auflage: 1
• Anzahl der Seiten: 388
• Herausgeber: Kon Onn Min
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