Principles and Practice of Interventional Pulmonology

This second edition provides a comprehensive text covering all aspects of interventional pulmonology. The first edition has become the evidence-based resource of choice for the interventional pulmonologist.  The original version is a fully inclusive overview of all aspects of interventional pulmonary from diagnosis to management and innovative approached to patient care. The book has provided efficient and up to date access for standard approaches, novel interventions, and expert opinion to help guide clinicians worldwide. Over the past decade, however, there have been monumental shifts in the care of these patients and the interventions associated. This updated edition thus includes not only updates to existing chapters but inclusion of new and innovative approaches toward interventional pulmonology to keep the reader up to date with cutting edge and life changing technologies that benefit patients. Providing both pathophysiologic background as well as illustrated and clear instruction on how procedures ought to be performed, this text is of great value to interventional pulmonologists, thoracic surgeons, surgical oncologists, and interventional radiologists.

General Principles of Endoscopic Imaging.- The Bronchoscope: What is Available,.-Determining Selection, and How to Properly Care for the Instrument.-Bronchoscopy Unit Design for Advanced Procedures.-Quality Control Mechanism for Endoscopic Procedures.-Moderate and Deep Sedation Techniques.-Physiology of Fixed Airway Obstruction.-Airway Imaging.- Airway Anatomy.-Bronchoscopy Education.-Simulation for Endoscopy Training.-Assessment of Vocal Cord Function and Voice Disorders.-Conventional Biopsy Techniques.-Bronchoalveolar Lavage.-Cryobiopsy Technique, Training and Safety.-Cryobiopsy for ILD.- Radial EBUS and Real Time Sampling in the Periphery.-Linear Endobronchial Ultrasound.- Esophageal Ultrasound.-Narrow Band Imaging.-Confocal Imaging.-Optical Coherence Tomography.-Single Use Bronchoscopes.-Electromagnetic Navigational Bronchoscopy.- Transparenchchymal nodule access.-Robotic Assisted Bronchoscopy.- Transthoracic Needle Biopsy Techniques.-Rapid On Site Evaluation and Specimen Preparation.- Rigid Bronchoscopy.-Metallic Stenting.- Endobronchial Silicone Stents for Airway Management.-Y-Stenting Techniques.- Montgomery T-Tubes.- Medical Thoracoscopy/Pleuroscopy.- Pleurodesis.-Management Principles of Empyema.-Management of Malignant Pleural Effusions.-Percutaneous Tracheotomy.-Cricothyroidotomy.-Transtracheal Oxygen Catheter Placement and Management.-Percutaneous Endoscopic Gastrostomy (PEG) Tube Placement.- Whole-Lung Lavage.

Lonny Yarmus, DO, MBA is Director of Interventional Pulmonology and Professor of Medicine and Oncology at Johns Hopkins University School of Medicine in Baltimore, MD, USA.

Felix JF Herth, MD, PhD, Dsc. Is Chairman and Head of the Department of Pneumology and Critical Care Medicine at the University of Heidelberg in Heidelberg, Germany.