Clinical Respiratory Medicine
There are many textbooks of respiratory medicine. The purpose of Clinical Respiratory Medicine is not to duplicate these, but to provide something new and different. Its primary focus is on taking a history and eliciting and interpreting clincial signs. This has been achieved by the extensive use of videos, photographic images, 3D animation and audio. The aetiology of many respiratory diseases are also covered.
Users will be able to see 3D animation of pulmonary lobar anatomy, hear the difference between fibrotic and bronchiectatic crepitations in real patients, hear what stridor and pleural rubs really sound like, see bronchoscopic biopsy of broncial carcinomas and removal of inhaled foreign bodies, as well as many other clinical signs.
This programme is aimed mainly at junior doctors and medical students, nurses and physiotherapists and GPs who want to brush up on their diagnostic skills, as well as for consultants who require a teaching aid.
- Examination
- Asthma
- Infections
- COPD
- Neoplastic disease
- Interstitial disease
- Pleural disease
- Pulmonary vascular
- 60 minutes of video and 125 minutes of audio
- Intuitive navigation system using drop down menus and navigation history
- Narration expanding concise text or accompanying videos and 3D animations
- Hot-linked definitions throughout
- Single page glossary
Apart from detailing key points in examination of the patient, the CD-ROM covers a wide range of respiratory disorders, describing in each, background, clinical features, investigations and where appropriate differential diagnosis.
The highly accessible format lends itself very well to checking details of a given disease. The disk has spoken information, videos and radiological imaging. There is footage of such procedures as surgery for mesothelioma and bronchoscopic removal of a foreign body. The standard of this footage is excellent. There is a very useful and handsomely illustrated glossary of terms.
The information presented is of the highest standard and will doubtless prove to be an invaluable resource and one which is particularly relevant to practice.
- 200MHz processor
- 32 MB RAM
- CD-ROM drive
- 800*600 16 bit colour display
- Windows 95,98,NT 3.5 or 4, 2000, XP
- Sound Blaster-compatible sound card
