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 diseasesin 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.

TABLE OF CONTENTS

CHAPTER 1: History of Training Specialists in Respiratory Diseases
CHAPTER 2: Development of the Respiratory System
CHAPTER 3: Physiological basis of the respiratory system
CHAPTER 4: Clinical History and Physical Examination of the Respiratory System
CHAPTER 5: Physiological Evolution of Sleep
CHAPTER 6: Immunological Defense Mechanisms of the Respiratory System
CHAPTER 7: New Frontiers in Research on the Respiratory System
CHAPTER 8: Evaluating Pulmonary Function in Infants and Pre-School Children
CHAPTER 9: Assessing Pulmonary Function in School-age Children and Adolescents
CHAPTER 10: Assessing Respiratory Muscular Function in Patients with Neuromuscular Diseases
CHAPTER 12: Assessing Arterial Oxygen Saturation
CHAPTER 13: Assessing the Sleep of Newborns to Adolescents
CHAPTER 14: Study of Infection Agents in Respiratory Diseases
CHAPTER 15: Assessing the Airway with Flexible Endoscopy
CHAPTER 16: Assessing the Airway with Rigid Endoscopy
CHAPTER 17: Children with Respiratory Failure
CHAPTER 18: Children with Persistent Cough
CHAPTER 19: Infants with Persistent Tachypnea
CHAPTER 20: Children with Persistent Stridor
CHAPTER 21: Children with snoring
CHAPTER 22: Children with Recurring Wheezing
CHAPTER 23: Haemoptysis in Children
CHAPTER 24: Infant with an Apparently Life Threating Event
CHAPTER 25: Management of an Immunosuppressed Child with Lung Infection
CHAPTER 26: Respiratory complications in Children with Neurological Diseases
CHAPTER 27: Managing a Foreign Body in a Child's Airway
CHAPTER 28: Epidemiology of respiratory infections
CHAPTER 29: Acute Laryngitis (CROUP)
CHAPTER 30: Acute Bronchiolitis
CHAPTER 31: Community Acquired Pneumonia
CHAPTER 32: Atypical Pneumonia
CHAPTER 33: Complicated Pneumonia
CHAPTER 34: Pneumonia Caused by Emerging Viral Agents
CHAPTER 35: Pulmonary Tuberculosis
CHAPTER 36: Respiratory Diseases in the Newborn
CHAPTER 37: Bronchopulmonary Dysplasia
CHAPTER 38: Allergic diseases, from the infant to the adolescent
CHAPTER 39: Latin America Asthma Epidemiology and Related Risk Factors.-CHAPTER 40: Evaluation of Asthma Risk in Infants and Preschoolers.-CHAPTER 41: Asthma: Clinical and Diagnosis Approach
CHAPTER 42: Asthma: Treatment
CHAPTER 43: Primary Ciliary Dyskinesia
CHAPTER 44: Cystic Fibrosis: Clinical and Diagnosis Approach
CHAPTER 45: Cystic Fibrosis: Treatment
CHAPTER 46: Pulmonary Aspergillosis
CHAPTER 47: Post Infectious Bronchiolitis Obliterans
CHAPTER 48: Obstructive Sleep Apnea Syndrome in Children
CHAPTER 49: Sudden Infant Death Syndrome
CHAPTER 50: Primary Immunodeficiencies and Immune Diseases
CHAPTER 51: Acquired Immune Deficiency Syndrome
CHAPTER 52: Sickle Cell Disease
CHAPTER 53: Congenital Malformations of the Airway
CHAPTER 54: Congenital Lung Malformations
CHAPTER 55: Gastroesophageal Reflux and Respiratory Diseases
CHAPTER 56: Pneumothorax and Thoracic Trauma
CHAPTER 57: Nutrition in Chronic Respiratory Disease
CHAPTER 58: Diseases Caused by Pollutants and Tobacco Exposure
CHAPTER 59: Nursing care Education in Chronic Respiratory
CHAPTER 60: Evidence-Based Medicine for Respiratory Diseases
CHAPTER 61: Inhalation Therapy
CHAPTER 62: Pulmonary Anti-Inflammatory Effects of Macrolides
CHAPTER 63: Chest Physiotherapy
CHAPTER 64: Pulmonary Rehabilitation in Children with Chronic Respiratory Diseases
CHAPTER 65: Prolonged Hospitalization due to Chronic Respiratory Diseases
CHAPTER 66: Oxygen Therapy
CHAPTER 67: Acute mechanical ventilation
CHAPTER 68: Chronic Invasive Ventilation
CHAPTER 69: Long-Term Non-Invasive Ventilation
CHAPTER 70: Tracheotomy
CHAPTER 71: Airway Surgery and Endoscopic Procedures
CHAPTER 72: Lung, Chest Cavity, and Dorsal Spine Surgery
CHAPTER 73: Extracorporeal Circulation Membrane Oxygenation Therapy for Acute Respiratory Diseases
CHAPTER 74: Pediatric Lung Transplantation.