Clinical Practice Manual for Pulmonary and Critical Care Medicine, by Judd W. Landsberg, MD, is a UNIQUE POINT-OF-CARE MANUAL that provides essential information on managing inpatients and outpatients with common, serious respiratory and internal medicine presentation and problems. EASY-TO-FOLLOW DIAGNOSTIC AND THERAPEUTIC ALGORITHMS are accompanied by CASE-BASED ILLUSTRATIONS encountered on a daily basis by attendings, fellows, residents, and students. The bulleted format, concise approach, and familiar examples provide a framework for effective teaching, learning, and patient care. * IDENTIFIES COMMON BUT IMPORTANT MISCONCEPTIONS that are regularly encountered in pulmonary and critical care training. * Uses a CONCISE, BULLETED FORMAT THROUGHOUT, helping you find key information quickly. * ILLUSTRATES CASES WITH PRIMARY DATA such as x-rays, monitor strips, ventilator wave forms, and other familiar documentation. * Helps you DEVELOP YOUR ABILITY TO EFFECTIVELY EXPLAIN YOUR THOUGHT PROCESS in the clinical setting to other practitioners at the bedside. * Serves as a ‘TEACHERS GUIDE’ FOR CLINICIAN EDUCATORS, organizing topics in an easy to teach fashion, amenable to ‘chalk talks’ and bedside didactics * Provides FOCUSED DISCUSSIONS OF BASIC PHYSIOLOGY AND PATHOPHYSIOLOGY related to pulmonary and critical care medicine.