Respiratory Medicine Clinical Cases Uncovered 1st Edition Baker, Emma Lai, Dilys 9781444392982 1444392980

Part 1: Basics

Basic science

Approach to the patient

Part 2: Case

Case 1 A 64-year-old man with respiratory arrest

Case 2 A 19-year-old man with chest tightness

Case 3 A 31-year-old woman with poorly-controlled asthma

Case 4 A 22-year-old man with life-threatening shortness of breath

Case 5 A 65-year-old man with worsening shortness of breath

Case 6 A worried 56-year-old man

Case 7 An 81-year-old man with acute shortness of breath

Case 8 A 73-year-old woman with confusion

Case 9 A 78-year-old man with ankle swelling

Case 10 A 72-year-old man with a hoarse voice

Case 11 A 56-year-old woman with an abnormal chest X-ray

Case 12 A 68-year-old man with shortness of breath and chest pain

Case 13 A 16-year-old boy with right-sided chest pain

Case 14 A 62-year-old woman with breathlessness

Case 15 A 24-year-old woman with pleuritic chest pain

Case 16 An elderly woman who collapsed suddenly

Case 17 A 45-year-old man with chest pain and breathlessness

Case 18 A 72-year-old man who becomes breathless during inpatient stay on a medical ward

Case 19 A 58-year-old woman with breathlessness following surgery

Case 20 A 16-year-old boy with a sore throat

Case 21 A 45-year-old woman with a chronic cough

Case 22 A 17-year-old girl with cystic fibrosis

Case 23 A 25-year-old woman with cough and weight loss

Case 24 A 44-year-old man commencing treatment for tuberculosis

Case 25 A 32-year-old man who absconds from directly observed therapy for tuberculosis

Case 26 A 32-year-old woman with a skin rash and abnormal chest X-ray

Case 27 A 68-year-old woman with worsening breathlessness on exertion

Case 28 A 35-year-old man with chronic shortness of breath

Case 29 An overweight 52-year-old man who snores

Part 3: Self-assessment

MCQs

EMQs

SAQs

MCQs Answers

Index of cases by diagnosis

Index