Lung function
Subtitle: theory and measurement in health and disease
By: J.E. Cotes, D.J. Chinn, M.R. Miller.
Contributors: Chinn, D. J.; Miller, M. R. 1949-
Edition: 6th ed.
Publisher: Blackwell Pub.
Published: 2006
Place of publication: Malden, Mass
Language: eng
ISBN-13: 9780632064939
Subjects: Pulmonary function tests.; Lungs -- Physiology.; Respiration.; Lung -- physiology.; Lung Diseases -- physiopathology.; Respiratory Function Tests.; Respiratory Physiology.
Notes: Includes bibliographical references and index.
Table of contents: title: Early developments and future prospects; title: Getting started; title: Development and functional anatomy of the respiratory system; title: Body size and anthropometric measurements; title: Numerical interpretation of physiological variables; title: Basic terminology and gas laws; title: Basic equipment and measurement techniques; title: Respiratory surveys; title: Thoracic cage and respiratory muscles; title: Lung volumes; title: Lung and chest wall elasticity; title: Forced ventilatory volumes and flows (ventilatory capacity); title: Determinants of maximal flows (flow limitation); title: Theory and measurement of respiratory resistance (including whole body plethysmography); title: Control of airway calibre and assessment of changes; title: Distribution of ventilation; title: Distribution and measurement of pulmonary blood flow; title: Inter-relations between lung ventilation and perfusion; title: Transfer of gases into blood in alveolar capillaries; title: Transfer factor (diffusing capacity) for carbon monoxide and nitric oxide (Tl,CO, Tl,NO, Dm and Vc); title: The oxygenation of blood; title: Gas exchange for carbon dioxide and acid-base balance; title: Control of respiration; title: Newborn babies, infants and young children (ages 0-6 yr); title: Normal lung function from childhood to old age; title: Reference values for lung function in white (caucasian) children and adults; title: Genetic diversity reference values in non-caucasians; title: Physiology of exercise and changes resulting from lung disease; title: Exercise testing: basics, procedures and reference values; title: Assessment of exercise limitation, disability and residual ability; title: Exercise in children; title: Investigation and physiology of breathing during sleep; title: Assessment and treatment of sleep related breathing disorders; title: Hypobaria: high altitude and aviation physiology and medicine; title: Immersion in water, hyperbaria and hyperoxia including O2 therapy; title: Cold, heat and the lungs; title: Airborne respiratory hazards: features, protective mechanisms and consequences; title: Patterns of abnormal function in lung disease; title: Strategies for assessment; title: Lung function in selected respiratory diseases (asthma, COPD, emphysema and diffuse lung fibrosis); title: How individual diseases affect lung function (compendium); title: Lung function in relation to general anaesthesia and artificial ventilation; title: Effects of surgery on lung function; title: Respiratory rehabilitation.