Pediatric Respiratory Diseases

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:

Pablo Bertrand graduated as a Physician in 1992 and as a Pediatrician in 1994 at the Universidad Católica de Chile and performed a Pediatric Pulmonology Fellowship in University of Miami (USA) in 2000. He has been working in clinical and academic duties since then, becoming Chief of the Pediatric Respiratory Diseases Unit and Director of the Pediatric Pulmonology Fellowship. He has done research in RSV bronchiolitis and cytokine production, as well as asthma. He was President of the Chilean Pediatric Pulmonology Society 2006-2009 and has organized several courses and congresses in Chile. 
Ignacio Sanchez graduated as a Physician in 1986 and as a Pediatrician in 1989 at the Universidad Católica de Chile and performed a Pediatric Pulmonology Fellowship at the University of Manitoba (Canada) in 1991. He has been working in clinical and academic duties since then, becoming Chief of the Pediatric Department, Director of theSchool of Medicine, Dean of the Faculty of Medicine and in 2010 was appointed President of the University. He has done research in respiratory sounds and bronchiolitis.