Asthma Diagnosis & Treatment Handbook: A Clinical Textbook Covering Pathophysiology, Phenotyping, and Inhaler Selection for Pulmonology Trainees - Softcover

Harvey, Harry C.

Softcover

ISBN 13: 9798196080098

Verlag: Independently published, 2026

Inhaltsangabe

It is 2 a.m. in the emergency department, the patient cannot speak through the wheeze, the rescue inhaler stopped working an hour ago, and the chart shows three exacerbations this year on what should have been adequate controller therapy.

When asthma is treated as a single disease rather than a constellation of biologically distinct phenotypes, patients cycle through escalating inhaled corticosteroids, repeated oral steroid bursts, and avoidable hospitalizations while the actual driver of their disease goes unaddressed.

This book gives you the framework to phenotype every patient in front of you, link clinical pattern to mechanistic endotype, and select the therapy that will actually work.

Inside this book:

• Hypersensitivity decoded — distinguish all four classes at the bedside and predict which interventions will work before you prescribe them
• Atopic march mapped — anticipate the next manifestation in the eye, nose, skin, and lung before the patient reports it
• Inhaler technique rebuilt — correct the errors that turn correct prescriptions into therapeutic failures
• Biologic selection clarified — match omalizumab, mepolizumab, benralizumab, dupilumab, and tezepelumab to the right patient on the first try
• Immunotherapy demystified — choose between SCIT and SLIT with full command of indications, protocols, and safety thresholds
• Severe asthma escalated — position bronchial thermoplasty, biologics, and emerging therapies in a defensible algorithm
• Precision medicine operationalized — translate eosinophils, FENO, and IgE into next-visit decisions

For allergists, pulmonologists, internists, family physicians, pediatricians, hospitalists, NPs, PAs, residents, and medical students caring for patients with allergic disease and asthma.

Buy this book and bring better care to every patient who walks through your door wheezing.

Details zur Ausgabe

• Verlag: Independently published
• Erscheinungsdatum: 2026
• Sprache: Englisch
• ISBN 13: 9798196080098
• Einband: Taschenbuch
• Anzahl der Seiten: 266
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