Pediatric Respiratory Diseases

1. Front Matter

   Pages i-xxviii

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2. History of Specialist Training in Respiratory Diseases

   • Ignacio Sánchez

   Pages 1-4

3. Development of the Respiratory System

   • Fernando Iñiguez Osmer, Ignacio Sánchez

   Pages 5-15

4. Physiological Basis of the Respiratory System

   • Pablo Bertrand, Ignacio Sánchez

   Pages 17-27

5. Clinical History and Physical Examination of the Respiratory System

   • Pablo Bertrand

   Pages 29-36

6. Physiological Evolution of Sleep

   • Mara Cvejic, Christian Guilleminault

   Pages 37-46

7. Immunological Defense Mechanisms of the Respiratory System

   • Arturo Borzutzky Schachter, Pamela Morales Matamala

   Pages 47-53

8. New Frontiers in Research on the Respiratory System

   • Andrew Bush, Luis Enrique Vega-Briceño

   Pages 55-71

9. Evaluation of Pulmonary Function in Infants and Preschool Children

   • Alejandro Teper, Carlos Kofman, Alejandro Colom

   Pages 73-83

10. Assessment of Pulmonary Function in Schoolchildren and Adolescents

    • Marcela Linares Paserini, Solange Caussade Larraín

    Pages 85-96

11. Assessment of Respiratory Muscular Function in Patients with Neuromuscular Diseases

    • Solange Caussade Larraín

    Pages 97-105

12. Study of Images in Respiratory Diseases

    • Cristián García Bruce, Rodrigo Parra Rojas

    Pages 107-126

13. Assessing Arterial Oxygen Saturation

    • Christian Poets, Pablo Brockmann Veloso

    Pages 127-133

14. Assessment of Sleep in Newborns to Adolescents

    • Óscar Sans Capdevila, David Gozal

    Pages 135-144

15. Study of Infectious Agents in Respiratory Diseases

    • Cecilia Perret Pérez

    Pages 145-150

16. Assessment of the Airway with Flexible Endoscopy

    • Pablo Bertrand, Nils Linus Holmgren Palmen, Francisco Prado Atlagic

    Pages 151-160

17. Assessment of the Airway with Rigid Endoscopy

    • Harlan Muntz, Constanza Beltrán Morales

    Pages 161-167

18. Children with Respiratory Failure

    • Juan Andrés Carrasco Orellana, Andrés Castillo Moya

    Pages 169-176

19. Children with Persistent Cough

    • Katalina Bertrán Salinas, Ricardo Saranz, Alejandro Lozano, José Antonio Castro-Rodríguez

    Pages 177-186

20. Infants with Persistent Tachypnea

    • Pablo Bertrand, Ana Moya Olivares

    Pages 187-191

This is a comprehensive and authoritative textbook on pediatric pulmonology. Edited by Pablo Bertrand and Ignacio Sánchez, renowned academics and pediatricians from the Pontifical Catholic University of Chile, it encompasses five sections and 74 chapters, presenting and discussing the most important topics related to pediatric respiratory diseases. Written and presented in a simple and didactic format, it intends to ease learning and settlement of doubts in pediatric respiratory diseases. The reader is naturally introduced into the physiology, diagnosis, syndromes, diseases and the treatment associated with the respiratory pathologies affecting children. The chapters include algorithms for the treatment of various syndromes and updated treatment proposals grounded in evidence-based medicine for more than 50 pulmonary diseases. Pediatric Respiratory Diseases – A Comprehensive Textbook is an essential reference for the proper clinical approach to respiratory diseases in children. It is intended for all interns, residents and fellows with interest in pediatric pulmonary medicine, as well as practicing physicians, general practitioners, pediatricians and pulmonologists who face pediatric respiratory disorders in daily clinical practice.

• Pulmonology
• Pneumology
• Children
• Child
• Adolescent
• Adolescents
• Paediatric
• Asthma
• Breathing
• Respiration
• Lung
• Disorders
• Infections
• Pediatric sleep disorders
• Pediatric respiratory syndromes
• Pediatric respiratory infections
• Pediatric respiratory lung function

• Pontificia Universidad Católica de Chile, Santiago, Chile

  Pablo Bertrand, Ignacio Sánchez

​Pablo Bertrand graduated as a Physician in 1992 and as a Pediatrician in 1994 at the Universidad Católica de Chile and performed a Pediatric Pulmonology Fellowship in University of Miami (USA) in 2000. He has been working in clinical and academic duties since then, becoming Chief of the Pediatric Respiratory Diseases Unit and Director of the Pediatric Pulmonology Fellowship. He has done research in RSV bronchiolitis and cytokine production, as well as asthma. He was President of the Chilean Pediatric Pulmonology Society 2006-2009 and has organized several courses and congresses in Chile. 

Ignacio Sanchez graduated as a Physician in 1986 and as a Pediatrician in 1989 at the Universidad Católica de Chile and performed a Pediatric Pulmonology Fellowship at the University of Manitoba (Canada) in 1991. He has been working in clinical and academic duties since then, becoming Chief of the Pediatric Department, Director of the School of Medicine, Dean of the Faculty of Medicine and in 2010 was appointed President of the University. He has done research in respiratory sounds and bronchiolitis. 

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