| Description |
xi, 636 pages : illustrations ; 29 cm |
| Contents |
Early developments and future prospects -- Getting started -- Development and functional anatomy of the respiratory system -- Body size and anthropometric measurements -- Numerical interpretation of physiological variables -- Basic terminology and gas laws -- Basic equipment and measurement techniques -- Respiratory surveys -- Thoracic cage and respiratory muscles -- Lung volumes -- Lung and chest wall elasticity -- Forced ventilatory volumes and flows (ventilatory capacity) -- Determinants of maximal flows (flow limitation) -- Theory and measurement of respiratory resistance (including whole body plethysmography) -- Control of airway calibre and assessment of changes -- Distribution of ventilation -- |
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Distribution and measurement of pulmonary blood flow -- Inter-relations between lung ventilation and perfusion -- Transfer of gases into blood in alveolar capillaries -- Transfer factor (diffusing capacity) for carbon monoxide and nitric oxide (Tl,CO, Tl,NO, Dm and Vc) -- The oxygenation of blood -- Gas exchange for carbon dioxide and acid-base balance -- Control of respiration -- Newborn babies, infants and young children (ages 0-6 yr) -- Normal lung function from childhood to old age -- Reference values for lung function in white (caucasian) children and adults -- Genetic diversity reference values in non-caucasians -- Physiology of exercise and changes resulting from lung disease -- Exercise testing: basics, procedures and reference values -- Assessment of exercise limitation, disability and residual ability -- Exercise in children -- |
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Investigation and physiology of breathing during sleep -- Assessment and treatment of sleep related breathing disorders -- Hypobaria: high altitude and aviation physiology and medicine -- Immersion in water, hyperbaria and hyperoxia including O2 therapy -- Cold, heat and the lungs -- Airborne respiratory hazards: features, protective mechanisms and consequences -- Patterns of abnormal function in lung disease -- Strategies for assessment -- Lung function in selected respiratory diseases (asthma, COPD, emphysema and diffuse lung fibrosis) -- How individual diseases affect lung function (compendium) -- Lung function in relation to general anaesthesia and artificial ventilation -- Effects of surgery on lung function -- Respiratory rehabilitation |
| Notes |
Previous ed.: published as 'Lung function : assessment and application in medicine' by John E. Cotes. 1993 |
| Bibliography |
Includes bibliographical references and index |
| Subject |
Pulmonary function tests.
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Respiration.
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| Author |
Miller, Martin R.
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Chinn, D. J. (David J.)
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| ISBN |
9780632064939 cased |
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0632064935 cased |
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