Banha Chest Online Issue#12

This issue will feature topics about Asthma

• Cleveland Clinic Chapter on Asthma
• Proceedings of ATS Workshop on Refractory Asthma
• An official ATS Workshop Report: Issues in Screening for Asthma in Children

National Asthma Council Australia :

• Asthma Management Handbook 2006, Revised & Updated

• (Webcast) Combination Therapy: A Question of Balance

• Leukotrine receptor Antagonists: Their Therapeutic role in children with asthma
  

Power Point presentations:

• Asthma in Children
  

Banha Chest Online News:

• Presentations of the Virtual Conference. We would like to thank all participants of the virtual conference. Presentations are available at the following link: Virtual Conference Slide show.

The best presentation is : Mechanical Ventilation in ARDS vs. COPD by Dr. Hanna ElGindy

Mechanical Ventilation in ARDS vs COPD

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Banha Chest Online Issue# 11

This issue will feature Asthma Guidelines:

• National Heart, Lung and Blood Institute (NHLBI) Guidelines for the Diagnosis and Management of Asthma, July 2007
• Global Initiative for Asthma (GINA) Guidelines & Resources
• British Thoracic Society (BTS) 2008 British Guideline on the Management of Asthma, May 2008
• British Occupational Health Research Foundation (BOHRF). Guidelines for the prevention, identification and management of occupational asthma: evidence review and recommendations
• Management of persistent asthma in infants and children 5 years of age and younger. Southfield (MI): Michigan Quality Improvement Consortium; 2006 Aug
• Managing asthma during pregnancy: recommendations for pharmacologic treatment. Bethesda (MD): National Heart, Lung, and Blood Institute; 2005 Jan.National Asthma Education and Prevention Program

Banha Chest Online Issue# 10

This issue will feature Tuberculosis:

• CDC - Division of Tuberculosis Elemination (DTBE) :TB Guidelines
• WHO page on Tuberculosis
• WHO new updates on XDR-TB (Extensively drug-resistant tuberculosis)

• University of California San Francisco - UCSF: Francis J.Curry National Tuberculosis Center (CNTC) Online Presentations featuring the following : Medical Management of Tuberculosis, Multidrug Resistant Tuberculosis, Pediatric Tuberculosis and Targeted Testing and Treatment of Latent TB Infection.
  

• University of California San Francisco - UCSF: Francis J.Curry National Tuberculosis Center: Drug-Resistant Tuberculosis: A Survival Guide for Clinicians, 2nd edition.The 10 chapters and 15 appendices cover major topics pertaining to epidemiology, diagnosis, treatment, medications, monitoring, special situations, adverse reactions, case management, legal issues, and treatment of contacts.

• Pulmonary Tuberculosis : The Essentials -State of the Art . (Radiology. 1999;210:307-322.) © RSNA, 1999

• Tuberculosis from Head to Toe, Radiology: Radiographics. 2000;20:449-470.) © RSNA, 2000