The ?European Lung White Book? and respiratory intensive care

The European Respiratory Society (ERS) published their first White Lung Book a decade ago, to provide a comprehensive survey of respiratory health across Europe for the benefit of patients as well as medical personnel and policy makers. The book aimed to highlight the huge and underestimated burden of respiratory disease in the region. Since then political and economic upheavals as well as an expansion in medical research and development have necessitated a second edition of this invaluable book, which was published ahead of this year