Thoracic Surgery: Preventive Medicine

The Asthmas: A Precision Medicine Approach to Treatable Traits, Diagnosis and Management by Vibeke Backer; Peter G. Gibson; Ian D. Pavord, 2023 The field of asthma has expanded in the last decade with specific drugs targeting the disease mechanisms. This book is an updated treatise covering diagnoses, phenotypes and endotypes of asthma along with its management. It includes diagnostic work-up which is required prior to medical assistance and basic immunology assessment, illustrating the types, severity, number of exacerbations due to disease activity, allergy or infections. As the treatment selection has changed from one size fits all to precision-based medicine, it aims to refine asthma management with right medication usage, neither overuse nor underuse, and initiation of the new hospital administered biologic drugs. Key Features * Covers both respiratory physiology and airway inflammation * Highlights the use of biologic drugs * Discusses precision-based medicine * Explores the comorbidities through clinical cases

Behavioral Sleep Medicine : A Practical Guide for Adult and Pediatric Providers by Lisa Medalie, 2023 This practical book provides evidence-based and safe techniques for behavioral sleep disorders. It follows a streamlined approach to delivery of care and offers tools to partner with a new provider, ensuring solutions are presented in a structured manner. Each chapter focuses on behavioral approaches to a specific sleep disorder and features key points and resources for additional insights. Practical and easy-to-read, this book is the ideal companion for sleep medicine and behavioral sleep medicine (BSM) fellows, and newly board-certified sleep medicine and BSM specialists. This book is also ideal for primary care physicians and residents. Furthermore, those studying for board-certification, and in training, can utilize the book's tools to follow the clinical approach to the concepts they are learning about.

Control of Breathing During Sleep by Susmita Chowdhuri; M. Safwan Badr; James A. Rowley, 2022 This book describes control of ventilation during sleep in both health and disease states. The topics are presented in a fashion that can be easily comprehended with many figures to illustrate complex concepts. Thus, a wide range of topics, starting from the site of normal respiratory rhythm generation to chemoreceptor control of sleep apnea, description of the apneic threshold, pathophysiology of upper airway closure, novel techniques to measure control of breathing, effect of cerebral blood flow on breathing, effect of opioids on ventilation, effect of heart failure on ventilation, genetic aspects of breathing disorders, age and gender differences, and various therapies are discussed. Key Features * Helps to bridge the gap between straight forward physiology and clinical practice through a range of topics and use of case vignettes * Explores various aspects of clinical management and control which is beneficial to sleep clinicians, respiratory physiologists, intensivists, trainees, and researchers. * Distills complex concepts into understandable language and figures, providing helping resource to the clinicians, that transforms a dry topic vis a viz control of ventilation into an exciting understandable 'clinician' language.

Emery and Rimoin's Principles and Practice of Medical Genetics and Genomics: Cardiovascular, Respiratory, and Gastrointestinal Disorders, 7th ed. by Reed E. Pyeritz; Bruce R. Korf; Wayne W. Grody, 2020 Emery and Rimoin's Principles and Practice of Medical Genetics and Genomics: Cardiovascular, Respiratory, and Gastrointestinal Disorders, Seventh Edition includes the latest information on seminal topics such as prenatal diagnosis, genome and exome sequencing, public health genetics, genetic counseling, and management and treatment strategies. This comprehensive, yet practical, resource emphasizes theory and research fundamentals relating to applications of medical genetics across the full spectrum of inherited disorders and applications to medicine. Updated sections in this release cover the genetics of cardiovascular, respiratory and gastrointestinal disorders, with an emphasis on genetic determinants and new pathways for diagnosis, prevention and disease management. In addition, genetic researchers, students and health professionals will find new and fully revised chapters on the molecular genetics of congenital heart defects, inherited cardiomyopathies, hypertension, cystic fibrosis, asthma, hereditary pulmonary emphysema, inflammatory bowel disease, and bile pigment metabolism disorders among other conditions.

Encyclopedia of Sleep and Circadian Rhythms, 2nd ed. by Clete Kushida, 2023 Encyclopedia of Sleep and Circadian Rhythms, Second Edition, Six Volume Set is the most comprehensive work on sleep and circadian rhythms. This completely revised new edition, comprised of contributions from 450 renowned authorities in the field, covers what is new and known in the field. In addition to thorough coverage of the basics (physiology, sleep disorders etc.), this new edition includes a thorough examination of circadian rhythms that manage the sleep-wake cycle. Although this area is highly intertwined with sleep, it is a scientific discipline in and of itself, and will broaden the appeal of this work to health care providers and scientists. Other sections of interest explore consumer wearable devices to track sleep and circadian rhythms, artificial intelligence algorithms to detect sleep and abnormal sleep-related conditions, and new technology to treat sleep and circadian rhythm disorders. This book will be an ideal and primary reference resource for students, trainees, technologists, basic/clinical scientists, physicians, advanced practice providers, psychologists, nurses, and other medical and research personnel who want to explore any topic within the sleep and circadian rhythm field. Provides the largest, most comprehensive publication in the field of sleep and circadian rhythms for non-specialists and readers from undergraduate level upwards, as well as advanced health care providers Covers the latest, most up-to-date knowledge regarding sleep and circadian rhythms and contains material that reflects the newest technology in the field Presents a new edition of the winner of the 2013 Prose Award for Multivolume Reference in Science from the Association of American Publishers Includes rich illustrations that can be used as teaching aids, along with multimedia

Foundations of Sleep Health by F. Javier Nieto; Donna Petersen, 2022 Foundations of Sleep Health presents sleep health as a critical element of overall individual and population health. Sleep disorders are an increasing problem plaguing more than 40 million Americans. Sleep impacts numerous biological functions and plays a critical role in brain development, including learning and memory consolidation, cognitive functioning, and emotion regulation. This book provides an historic and current overview of the state of sleep health with an emphasis on the interplay between several levels of determinants and factors that influence sleep health. The text provides students in the health professions with in-depth discussion on the theory, research, and practice of sleep health, while also detailing mechanisms, hypotheses, and determinants of sleep and ways to improve sleep health.

The Holistic Treatment of Sleep Disorders : Complementary Therapy Concept for Physicians and Psychotherapists by Carolin Marx-Dick, 2024 The book conveys a complete holistic therapy concept for the treatment of sleep disorders. Starting from the knowledge transfer on the functions of sleep and evident consequences of sleep disorders, Carolin Marx-Dick describes the multimodal treatment according to the concept of mind-body medicine with the help of compact and well-tested instructions for action. This includes mindfulness-based therapy techniques, body therapy elements, nutrition and exercise therapy as well as naturopathic treatment approaches. Work and patient materials are provided for download, enabling a straightforward and short-term application of the therapy methods. Overview tables provide the practitioner with a quick orientation for diagnostics, therapy planning and the use of targeted therapy modules. Every method presented has been proven in treatment practice and can enable patients to maintain their health in the long term. The translation was done with the help of artificial intelligence. A subsequent human revision was done primarily in terms of content.

Precision in Pulmonary, Critical Care, and Sleep Medicine by Jose L. Gomez; Blanca E. Himes; Naftali Kaminski, 2020 This book serves as the primary reference for precision medicine in the fields of pulmonary, critical care and sleep medicine by documenting principles written by experts in several aspects of precision medicine. It combines fundamental concepts of the field with state-of-the-art studies and how they translate into individual preventive, diagnostic and therapeutic plans. Precision medicine is focused on the integration of individual variability with disease prevention and treatment principles derived from population studies. This concept has risen to prominence in recent years in parallel with advances in genetics, molecular diagnostics and novel target-specific therapies. This fundamental shift in the approach to treatment has broad implications in how we prevent, diagnose and treat disease. Describing key concepts of precision medicine and relating these to pulmonary, critical care and sleep disorders is essential to educate relevant stakeholders and increase the impact of pulmonary precision medicine. The book is organized into seven sections: introduction; genetics; biomarkers; precise phenotyping; mobile health, wearables and telemedicine; precision therapeutics; and enabling widespread adoption of precision medicine. The chapters are organized with an introduction to the specific theme, followed by its basic concepts. They then delve into how these basic concepts relate to the larger theme of precision medicine, new precision medicine approaches to dealing with these problems, and key takeaway points. Liberally illustrated with images, figures, and tables, the text is thorough and intuitive for clinicians and researchers to learn the processes and applications of precision medicine. This is an ideal guide for clinicians to learn new precision medicine concepts in the fields of genetics, genomics, mobile health, and how they apply to their practice and their patients, as well as researchers seeking a basic understanding of precision medicine to assist in designing future research studies.

Principles and Practice of Sleep Telemedicine by Christine Won; Meir H. Kryger, 2025 Aspects of telemedicine have been adopted in sleep medicine for decades. Home sleep testing and remote monitoring of PAP devices are just two examples. The COVID-19 pandemic has brought about a paradigm shift in the way health care in general and sleep medicine in particular are delivered. The need for social distancing and the risk for infection have led to the widespread adoption of telemedicine. Telemedicine has been widely adopted in the field of sleep medicine, which has traditionally relied on in-person consultations and in-facility sleep testing. During the COVID-19 public health emergency, The American Academy of Sleep Medicine (AASM) recommended telemedicine as a viable alternative to in-person consultations. During this dire period, telemedicine enabled sleep clinicians to provide care to patients remotely, without the need for them to visit a sleep center or laboratory. This was particularly beneficial for patients who lived in remote areas or had mobility issues. Since the end of the COVID-19 public health emergency, the use of telemedicine in sleep medicine has continued. The benefits of telemedicine in sleep medicine are numerous. Telemedicine has made it easier for patients to access care, regardless of their location. Patients no longer have to travel long distances to visit a sleep center or laboratory. Telemedicine has also been beneficial for sleep clinicians. It has enabled them to provide care to a larger number of patients without the need for additional staff or resources. Telemedicine has also made it easier for sleep clinicians to collaborate with other health care professionals, such as primary care physicians and specialists. This has the potential to lead to more favorable patient outcomes and improved quality of care. This is the first book that reviews the many aspects of telemedicine that affect the clinician caring for patients who have sleep disorders. Telemedicine, once a novelty, is now an important part of clinical care and will evolve further as technology evolves.