Evidence-Based Respiratory Medicine(with CD-ROM)

About the Authors
Peter Gibson, Respiratory Medicine Unit, John Hunter Hospital

Part 1 Practising evidence-based respiratory medicine

1.1 Introduction
1.2 Diagnostic strategies
1.2.1 Presenting symptoms
1.2.2 Lung function testing
1.2.3 Chest radiographic and CT patterns
1.2.4 Diagnostic strategies in pulmonary embolism: an evidence-based
approach
1.2.5 Screening for lung cancer
1.3 Therapeutics: general issues
1.3.1 Adherence and self-management
1.3.2 Corticosteroid-induced osteoporosis
1.3.3 Helping people to stop smoking

Part 2 Asthma

2.1 Acute exacerbations
2.2 Chronic therapy: beta-agonists ? short-acting, long-acting beta2-
agonists
2.3 Inhaled corticosteroids in the treatment of asthma
2.4 Anti-leukotrienes
2.5 Asthma education
2.6 Non-pharmacological and complementary interventions to manage
asthma
2.7 Difficult asthma
2.8 Novel therapies in asthma: long-acting beta2-agonists/inhaled
corticosteroids

Part 3 Chronic obstructive pulmonary disease

3.1 Chronic obstructive pulmonary disease ? acute exacerbations
3.2 Anticholinergic bronchodilators in chronic obstructive pulmonary
disease therapy
3.3 Inhaled corticosteroids in chronic obstructive pulmonary disease
3.4 Combination of inhaled corticosteroids and long-acting beta2-
agonists in chronic obstructive pulmonary disease
3.5 Systemic corticosteroids in stable chronic obstructive pulmonary
disease
3.6 Lung volume reduction

Part 4 Infection

4.1 Bronchitis and sinusitis
4.2 Community-acquired pneumonia
4.3 Pulmonary tuberculosis
4.4 Influenza: vaccination and treatment
4.5 Bronchiectasis
4.6 Adult cystic fibrosis
4.7 Antibiotics in chronic obstructive pulmonary disease,
bronchiectasis and cystic fibrosis

Part 5 Respiratory failure/sleep disordered breathing

5.1 Respiratory rehabilitation
5.2 Non-invasive ventilation in acute respiratory failure
5.3 Non-invasive positive pressure ventilation in stable patients
with chronic obstructive pulmonary disease. What is the evidence?
5.4 The treatment of the obstructive sleep apnoea?hypopnoea syndrome
5.5 Long-term oxygen therapy for chronic respiratory failure in
chronic obstructive pulmonary disease

Part 6 Diffuse lung disease/pleural disease/thromboembolism
6.1 Diffuse lung disease
6.1.1 The treatment of cryptogenic fibrosing alveolitis
6.1.2 Evidence-based approach to treatment of sarcoidosis
6.1.3 Hypersensitivity pneumonitis
6.2 Pleural disease
6.3 Therapy of pulmonary thromboembolism: an evidence-based approach
6.4 Pulmonary hypertension