A New COPD Paperback
Today I read a very good 160 page book: "100 Questions and Answers About COPD" written by Doctor Campion Quinn, a Long Island internist. It's available at half.com for only about ten dollars (plus shipping).
It's divided into ten sections; is printed on bright white paper; and includes an up-to-date list of Internet resources for patients with COPD. It includes excellent chapters on smoking cessation, pulmonary rehab programs, and oxygen therapy for COPD. Unfamiliar terms are conveniently defined in the wide margins, next to the text where they are first mentioned.
Helpful comments from a patient named Cecil are scattered throughout the book, but I was disappointed that he was never introduced, and the reader never learns much about him. I worried that he was an "imaginary friend" of the physician author. Since the book was published this year (2006), it includes discussions of new treatments, such as lung volume reduction surgery (with general results from the NETT study), and tiotropium (Spiriva).
Of course, the author is much more optimistic about the value and safety of most COPD medications than yours truly.
My primary complaint about this book is that it only has 2 diagrams. Dozens of diagrams and photos would greatly enhance the reader's understanding of COPD. I noticed only a few minor factual errors, such as the idea that DLCO tests are done in a body box and that "HEPA air purifiers can be expensive and require that the filter be changed every 3-6 months".
I also bought a couple of other new books about COPD and plan to read and review them here before I go to the American Thoracic Society meeting in San Diego in a couple of weeks: "Coping with COPD" by Elaine Shimberg and "Life and Breath" by Neil Schachter.
Related Topics: Living with COPD, Quitting Smoking
Technorati Tags: COPD, air purifiers, oxygen therapy, smoking cessation
It's divided into ten sections; is printed on bright white paper; and includes an up-to-date list of Internet resources for patients with COPD. It includes excellent chapters on smoking cessation, pulmonary rehab programs, and oxygen therapy for COPD. Unfamiliar terms are conveniently defined in the wide margins, next to the text where they are first mentioned.
Helpful comments from a patient named Cecil are scattered throughout the book, but I was disappointed that he was never introduced, and the reader never learns much about him. I worried that he was an "imaginary friend" of the physician author. Since the book was published this year (2006), it includes discussions of new treatments, such as lung volume reduction surgery (with general results from the NETT study), and tiotropium (Spiriva).
Of course, the author is much more optimistic about the value and safety of most COPD medications than yours truly.
My primary complaint about this book is that it only has 2 diagrams. Dozens of diagrams and photos would greatly enhance the reader's understanding of COPD. I noticed only a few minor factual errors, such as the idea that DLCO tests are done in a body box and that "HEPA air purifiers can be expensive and require that the filter be changed every 3-6 months".
I also bought a couple of other new books about COPD and plan to read and review them here before I go to the American Thoracic Society meeting in San Diego in a couple of weeks: "Coping with COPD" by Elaine Shimberg and "Life and Breath" by Neil Schachter.
Related Topics: Living with COPD, Quitting Smoking
Technorati Tags: COPD, air purifiers, oxygen therapy, smoking cessation
5 Comments:
if a person has a chronic cough, and asthma, and the inhalers and steroids are not working as far `as a cough goes....do you ever use hydrocodone as a cough med for this? example; tussionex, polytussin xp, atuss ms, codiclear, hycodan, hycomine hycotuss, endal hd, ect. ect..... can these cough syrups be prescribed for a chronic cough and asthma???????
I was looking on webmd about symtoms for asthma and under some of the causes for asthma it said being black,living in a low income enviroment. I thought that was very racist.
My husband has COPD, emphysemia & chronic pneumonia. He also has vascular & heart disease. We have a hot tub that he love to use daily. Is it safe for him to use the hot tub?
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I have COPD,Emphysma, and Cronic Broncitis plus other numerious medical conditions including Obesity. My Doctor ave me information on Lap Band Surgery and said I was a good candidate for it. He also gave me a copy of my records and refered me to MSU in Charleston South Carolina; which is a very good Hospital; infact is rated the best in South Carolina, but no one will tell me if it is safe for me, just that I am a good candidate and the surgery will also help my Diabetes. I want to know the death rate and I can't seem to find it any where can you help me?
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