Pediatric Respiratory Diseases

TABLE OF CONTENTS.- CHAPTER 1: History of Training Specialists in Respiratory Diseases.- CHAPTER 2: Development of the Respiratory System.- CHAPTER 3: Physiological basis of the respiratory system.- CHAPTER 4: Clinical History and Physical Examination of the Respiratory System.- CHAPTER 5: Physiological Evolution of Sleep.- CHAPTER 6: Immunological Defense Mechanisms of the Respiratory System.- CHAPTER 7: New Frontiers in Research on the Respiratory System.- CHAPTER 8: Evaluating Pulmonary Function in Infants and Pre-School Children.- CHAPTER 9: Assessing Pulmonary Function in School-age Children and Adolescents.- CHAPTER 10: Assessing Respiratory Muscular Function in Patients with Neuromuscular Diseases.- CHAPTER 12: Assessing Arterial Oxygen Saturation.- CHAPTER 13: Assessing the Sleep of Newborns to Adolescents.- CHAPTER 14: Study of Infection Agents in Respiratory Diseases.- CHAPTER 15: Assessing the Airway with Flexible Endoscopy.- CHAPTER 16: Assessing the Airway with Rigid Endoscopy.- CHAPTER 17: Children with Respiratory Failure.- CHAPTER 18: Children with Persistent Cough.- CHAPTER 19: Infants with Persistent Tachypnea.- CHAPTER 20: Children with Persistent Stridor.- CHAPTER 21: Children with snoring.- CHAPTER 22: Children with Recurring Wheezing.- CHAPTER 23: Haemoptysis in Children.- CHAPTER 24: Infant with an Apparently Life Threating Event.- CHAPTER 25: Management of an Immunosuppressed Child with Lung Infection.- CHAPTER 26: Respiratory complications in Children with Neurological Diseases.- CHAPTER 27: Managing a Foreign Body in a Child s Airway.- CHAPTER 28: Epidemiology of respiratory infections.- CHAPTER 29: Acute Laryngitis (CROUP).- CHAPTER 30: Acute Bronchiolitis.- CHAPTER 31: Community Acquired Pneumonia.- CHAPTER 32: Atypical Pneumonia.- CHAPTER 33: Complicated Pneumonia.- CHAPTER 34: Pneumonia Caused by Emerging Viral Agents.- CHAPTER 35: Pulmonary Tuberculosis.- CHAPTER 36: Respiratory Diseases in the Newborn.- CHAPTER 37: Bronchopulmonary Dysplasia.- CHAPTER 38: Allergic diseases, from the infant to the adolescent.- CHAPTER 39: Latin America Asthma Epidemiology and Related Risk Factors.-CHAPTER 40: Evaluation of Asthma Risk in Infants and Preschoolers.-CHAPTER 41: Asthma: Clinical and Diagnosis Approach.- CHAPTER 42: Asthma: Treatment.- CHAPTER 43: Primary Ciliary Dyskinesia.- CHAPTER 44: Cystic Fibrosis: Clinical and Diagnosis Approach.- CHAPTER 45: Cystic Fibrosis: Treatment.- CHAPTER 46: Pulmonary Aspergillosis.- CHAPTER 47: Post Infectious Bronchiolitis Obliterans.- CHAPTER 48: Obstructive Sleep Apnea Syndrome in Children.- CHAPTER 49: Sudden Infant Death Syndrome.- CHAPTER 50: Primary Immunodeficiencies and Immune Diseases.- CHAPTER 51: Acquired Immune Deficiency Syndrome.- CHAPTER 52: Sickle Cell Disease.- CHAPTER 53: Congenital Malformations of the Airway.- CHAPTER 54: Congenital Lung Malformations.- CHAPTER 55: Gastroesophageal Reflux and Respiratory Diseases.- CHAPTER 56: Pneumothorax and Thoracic Trauma.- CHAPTER 57: Nutrition in Chronic Respiratory Disease.- CHAPTER 58: Diseases Caused by Pollutants and Tobacco Exposure.- CHAPTER 59: Nursing care Education in Chronic Respiratory.- CHAPTER 60: Evidence-Based Medicine for Respiratory Diseases.- CHAPTER 61: Inhalation Therapy.- CHAPTER 62: Pulmonary Anti-Inflammatory Effects of Macrolides.- CHAPTER 63: Chest Physiotherapy.- CHAPTER 64: Pulmonary Rehabilitation in Children with Chronic Respiratory Diseases.- CHAPTER 65: Prolonged Hospitalization due to Chronic Respiratory Diseases.- CHAPTER 66: Oxygen Therapy.- CHAPTER 67: Acute mechanical ventilation.- CHAPTER 68: Chronic Invasive Ventilation.- CHAPTER 69: Long-Term Non-Invasive Ventilation.- CHAPTER 70: Tracheotomy.- CHAPTER 71: Airway Surgery and Endoscopic Procedures.- CHAPTER 72: Lung, Chest Cavity, and Dorsal Spine Surgery.- CHAPTER 73: Extracorporeal Circulation Membrane Oxygenation Therapy for Acute Respiratory Diseases.- CHAPTER 74: Pediatric Lung Transplantation.