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This book is a quick reference guide and atlas for performing bronchoscopy in pediatric patients. It offers a multidisciplinary approach, incorporating the perspectives of pediatric pulmonology, otolaryngology, anesthesiology, and respiratory therapy by outlining important anatomic and physiologic considerations. It describes the basic and advanced techniques in performing flexible, rigid, and special bronchoscopy maneuvers and approaches. This book enhances the reader's understanding of the critical skill of clinical evaluation and management of the pediatric airway. It is addressed to junior and senior trainees as well as early- and late-career clinicians involved in pediatric bronchoscopy as an on-the-go guide.Key Features: Pays special attention to including widely applicable techniques that can be employed across a variety of domestic and international practical settings, complete with a wealth of accompanying videos and illustrations from real-world experiences that are easy to replicate and reference in practice. Promotes a multidisciplinary approach to the evaluation of the upper and lower airways in children with respiratory and aerodigestive pathology as the lines between pediatric pulmonology, otolaryngology, anesthesiology, surgery, critical care, and emergency medicine are blurring, thus providing well-equipped clinicians with a thorough perspective of all disciplines. Features bullet-pointed lists for pre-procedure evaluation, with procedural checklists, images, and videos, and serves as a portable, compact, and accessible quick reference guide.

This edition has several new contributors; all of them are leading authorities, from various parts of the world. All the chapters have been thoroughly re-written and updated; many of them are by new but renowned contributors. Several new high quality clinical, radiographic images, gross pathology specimen photographs, and photomicrographs have been included in this edition for the readers'convenience. This edition documents the rapid advances that have occurred at a blistering pace in TB diagnosis, universal drug-susceptibility testing [DST] and treatment of dug-susceptible and drug-resistant TB, including multidrug-resistant and extensively drug-resistant TB [M/XDR-TB], programmatic management of drug-resistant TB, public-private mix, the ENGAGE-TB approach, and END TB strategy, among others. The present edition includes recent classification of drugs and drug combinations including recent generation quinolones, bedaquiline and linezolid used in treating M/XDR-TB and a chapter detailing the latest developments in the field of laboratory diagnosis and management of NTM diseases.

• Divided into two volumes containing 163 chapters in total. • Completely revised edition with updated information, referenced with most recent citations. • Specifically focuses on pathophysiology, pulmonary interventions, newer diagnostic techniques and treatment modalities. • Contains separate sections on respiratory history, physiology, pharmacology, radiology and diagnostic techniques. • Includes chapters on pulmonary perspectives such as history, ethics and economics. • Aims to provide comprehensive but concise information, using a large number of tables, figures and flow charts. • The chapters are written by over 200 contributors from different countries, including India, America, Europe, South Africa, Japan, and Middle East. • Useful to the educators, pulmonologists, intensivists, thoracic surgeons, pediatricians, clinical practitioners, who are treating the patients with lung involvement; and also for the postgraduate students.