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Features:           

• The only text to cover lung function assessment from first principles including methodology, reference values and interpretation
   
• New for this edition:
  - More illustrations to convey concepts clearly to the busy physician
  
  - Text completely re-written in a contemporary style: includes user-friendly equations and more diagrams
  
  - New material covering the latest advances in the treatment of lung function, including more on sleep-related disorders, a stronger clinical and practical bias and more on new techniques and equipment
  
  - Uses the standard Vancouver referencing system
   

Table of Contents:

Part 1:  Foundations

Chapter 1.     Early Developments and Future Prospects

Chapter 2.     Getting Started

Chapter 3.     Development and Functional Anatomy of the Respiratory System

Chapter 4.     Body Size and Anthropometric Measurements

Chapter 5.     Numerical Interpretations of Physiological Variables

Chapter 6.     Basic Terminology and Gas Laws

Chapter 7.     Basic Equipment and Measurement Techniques

Chapter 8.     Respiratory Surveys

Part 2:  Physiology and Measurment of Lung Function

Chapter 9.     Thoracic Cage and Respiratory Muscles

Chapter 10.   Lung Volumes

Chapter 11.   Lung and Chest Wall Elasticity

Chapter 12.   Forced Ventilatory Volumes and Flows (Ventilatory Capacity)

Chapter 13.   Determinants of Maximal Flows (Flow Limitation)

Chapter 14.   Theory and Measurement of Respiratory Resistance (Including Whole Body Plethysmography)

Chapter 15.   Control of Airway Caliber and Assessment of Changes

Chapter 16.   Distribution of Ventilation

Chapter 17.   Distribution and Measurement of Pulmonary Blood Flow

Chapter 18.   Inter-Relations between Lung Ventilation and Perfusion

Chapter 19.   Transfer of Gases into Blood in Alveolar Capillaries

Chapter 20.   Transfer Factor (Diffusing Capacity) for Carbon Monoxide and Nitric Oxide

Chapter21.   The Oxygenation of Blood

Chapter 22.   Gas Exchange for Carbon Dioxide and Acid-Base Balance

Chapter 23.   Control of Breathing

Chapter 24.   Newborn Babies, Infants and Young Children

Part 3:  Normal Variation in Lung Function

Chapter 25.   Normal Lung Function from Childhood to Old Age

Chapter26.   Reference Values for Lung Function in White (Caucasian) Children and Adults

Chapter 27.   Genetic Diversity:  Reference Values in Non-Caucasians

Part 4:  Exercise

Chapter 28.   Physiology of Exercise and Changes Resulting from Lung Disease

Chapter 29.   Exercise Testing and Interpretation, including Reference Values

Chapter 30.   Assessment of Exercise Limitation, Disability, and Residual Ability

Chapter 31.   Exercise in Children

Part 5:  Breathing During Sleep

Chapter 32.   Investigation and Physiology of Breathing During Sleep

Chapter 33.   Assessment and Treatment of Sleep Related Breathing Disorders

Part 6:  Potentially Adverse Environments

Chapter 34.   Hypobaria:  High Altitude and Aviation Physiology and Medicine

Chapter 35.   Immersion in Water, Hyperbaria and Hyperoxia Including O2  Therapy

Chapter 36.   Cold, Heat, and the Lungs

Chapter 37.   Airborne Respiratory Hazards:  Features, Protective Mechanisms and Consequences

Part 7:  Lung Function in Clinical Practice

Chapter 38.   Patterns of Abnormal Function in Lung Disease

Chapter 39.   Strategies for Assessment

Chapter 40.   Lung Function in Asthma, COPD, Emphysema and Diffuse Lung Fibrosis

Chapter 41.   How Individual Diseases Affect Lung Function (Compendium)

Chapter 42.   Lung Function in Relation to General Anesthesia and Artificial Ventilation

Chapter 43.   Lung Function in Relation to Surgery

Chapter 44.   Pulmonary Rehabilitation

INDEX