Pulmonary Rehabilitation: Guidelines to Success

This thoroughly updated, newly organized edition addresses the need for team care of patients with chronic obstructive pulmonary disease and demonstrates how to organize and manage an effective pulmonary rehabilitation program. A guide for each member of the in-patient and home care pulmonary rehabilitation team, this book combines theory with resources for practice. Chapters cover the following topics: up-to-date coverage of patient assessment; smoking cessation; pharmacologic therapy; nutrition support; aerosol/oxygen therapies; guidelines for marketing/administering a rehabilitation program in the United States and abroad; and forms, protocols and schedules. Features new to this edition include: / The expertise of new co-author, Bartolome R. Celli, MD / Section headings, chapter outlines and chapter objectives / Eight additional chapters covering ventilatory muscle training, outcomes measurement, sleep disorders, surgical intervention of COPD, rehabilitation for patients with neuromuscular disease, rehabilitation in nonobstructive lung disease, and European mechanical ventilation methods / An international pulmonary rehabilitation section that features perspectives from Canada, Europe, Japan, South America, the Philippines, and the United States / Enhanced tables and boxes / Twenty-nine chapters rewritten by new contributors