This up-to-the-minute single-source reference provides a complete overview of cystic fibrosis (CF) care for the hospitalized patient, assisting in the successful development of effective management approaches to many of the serious symptoms and complications associated with both the disease and its related long-term treatment effects. Detailing the general principles for inpatient therapy, continued hospitalization, and terminal care, and optimal treatment of specific CF manifestations and complications, Treatment of the Hospitalized Cystic Fibrosis Patient offers the latest contributions on pertinent topics such as antibiotic combinations and doses pre- and post-lung transplant care constipation and distal intestinal obstruction syndrome complications of multilobular biliary cirrhosis anti-inflammatory treatment and much more! Written by internationally recognized experts and furnished with over 1000 literature citations, tables, figures, and photographs, this practical volume is invaluable for pulmonologists, physiologists, pediatricians, internists, chest physicians, gastroenterologists, transplant surgeons, respiratory therapists, and medical and graduate school students in these disciplines.