Pulmonary Medicine Review

Overview

Why waste time guessing at what you need to know for the pulmonary medicine board exam? Maximize your exam preparation time with this quick-hit question and answer review. The unique question and single-answer format eliminates the guesswork associated with traditional multiple-choice Q&A reviews and reinforces only the correct answers you'll need to know on exam day. Emphasis is placed on distilling key facts and clinical pearls essential for exam success. Great for certification and re-certification, this high-yield review for the boards is the perfect compliment to larger texts for intense, streamlined review in the days and weeks before your exam.

Table of contents

AIRWAY MANAGEMENT
ALTITUDE MEDICINE
ACUTE RESPIRATORY DISTRESS SYNDROME
ASPIRATION SYNDROMES, NEAR-DROWNING AND HEMOPTYSIS
ASTHMA, OCCUPATIONAL ASTHMA AND COPD
BRONCHIECTASIS AND CYSTIC FIBROSIS
AIRWAY CONDITIONS OTHER THAN ASTHMA, BRONCHIECTASIS
COPD AND CYSTIC FIBROSIS
COLLAGEN VASCULAR DISEASES
PULMONARY CRITICAL CARE
DRUG INDUCED LUNG DISEASES
EXERCISE AND PRE-OP TESTING
EXTRAPULMONARY CAUSES OF LUNG CONDITIONS
HYPERSENSITIVITY PNEUMONITIS
INFECTIOUS DISEASES
INTERSTITIAL LUNG DISEASE
MEDIASTINUM AND SURGICAL CONSIDERATIONS
MYCOBACTERIAL INFECTIONS
PULMONARY EMBOLISM AND DEEP VENOUS THROMBOSIS
PULMONARY FUNCTION TESTING AND PHYSIOLOGY
PLEURAL CONDITIONS
PNEUMOCONIOSIS AND INHALED TOXINS
PO2, PCO2 AND PH
PULMONARY HYPERTENSION, VASCULITIS AND OTHER VASCULAR
CONDITIONS
PULMONARY EOSINOPHILIC SYNDROMES
SLEEP APNEA SYNDROMES
TRANSPLANTATION
TUMORS
MULTIPLE CHOICE AND TRUE/FALSE REVIEW
BIBLIOGRAPHY

Biographical note

Michael Zevitz, MD is Assistant Professor of Medicine in the Division of Cardiology at Chicago Medical School, Chicago, IL. Dr. Richard Lenhardt is affiliated with Harvard Medical School in Boston, Massachusetts.