Limit search to available items
Book Cover
Book
Author Lumb, Andrew B.

Title Nunn's applied respiratory physiology
Edition Sixth edition / Andrew B. Lumb
Published [Edinburgh] ; Philadelphia : Elsevier Butterworth Heinemann, 2005

Copies

Location Call no. Vol. Availability
 MELB  612.2024617 Lum/Nar 2005  AVAILABLE
Description xiii, 501 pages : illustrations ; 26 cm
regular print
Contents 1. The atmosphere -- 2. Functional anatomy of the respiratory tract -- 3. Elastic forces and lung volumes -- 4. Respiratory system resistance -- 5. Control of breathing -- 6. Pulmonary ventilation -- 7. The pulmonary circulation -- 8. Distribution of pulmonary ventilation and perfusion -- 9. Diffusion of respiratory gases -- 10. Carbon dioxide -- 11. Oxygen -- 12. Non-respiratory functions of the lung -- 13. The history of respiratory physiology -- 14. Pregnancy, neonates and children -- 15. Exercise -- 16. Sleep -- 17. High altitude and flying -- 18. High pressure and diving -- 19. Respiration in closed environments and space -- 20. Drowning -- 21. Smoking and air pollution -- 22. Anaesthesia -- 23. Changes in the carbon dioxide tension -- 24. Hypoxia -- 25. Anaemia -- 26. Hyperoxia and oxygen toxicity -- 27. Ventilatory failure -- 28. Airways disease -- 29. Pulmonary vascular disease -- 30. Parenchymal lung disease -- 31. Acute lung injury
32. Respiratory support and artificial ventilation -- 33. Lung transplantation
Summary Discusses basic principles, applied physiology, and physiology of pulmonary disease. Includes pregnancy and infants, high altitude and flying, exercise, and sleep
Notes Previous ed.: 2000
Bibliography Includes bibliographical references and index
Subject Respiratory organs -- Physiology.
Respiration.
Anesthesia.
Respiratory organs -- Pathophysiology.
Respiratory System.
Respiratory Physiological Phenomena.
Respiration.
Physiopathology
Respiratory Physiological Phenomena.
Respiratory Tract Diseases.
Respiration.
Respiratory Physiological Phenomena.
Respiratory System -- physiopathology.
Author Nunn, J. F. (John Francis)
LC no. 2005052588
ISBN 9780750687911
0750687916 hardback
Other Titles Applied respiratory physiology