Respiratory Disease

Comprehensive and updated, Respiratory Disease: A Case Study Approach to Patient Care, now in its second edition, will prove to be your best textbook and resource for understanding respiratory disease.
New to the Second Edition: Four new chapters have been added: Introduction to Patient Assessment, Tuberculosis, Pneumonia in the Immunocompromised Patient, and Ethics in Respiratory Care. Key terms are now listed at the beginning of each chapter and are defined in a new glossary. A workbook is available separately. For each chapter in the text, the workbook includes completion, multiple choice, and matching study question (with answers).

Robert L. Wilkins, PhD, RRT is Professor and Chair of Department of Cardiopulmonary Sciences, School of Allied Health Professions at Loma Linda University, Loma Linda, California.