Chest Medicine
Subtitle: Essentials of Pulmonary and Critical Care Medicine
Edition: 6th edition
Publisher: Lippincott Williams & Wilkins
Published: May 1, 2006
Language: eng
Format: Hardcover
Number of pages: 704
ISBN-13: 9780781752732
Subjects: Respiratory medicine; Lungs; Chest; Medical / Nursing; Respiratory intensive care; Medical; Pulmonary & Thoracic Medicine; Medical / Pulmonary & Thoracic Medicine; Diseases; Lung Diseases
First sentence: The lungs perform many important functions, including the filtering of systemic venous blood prior to its entry into the left ventricle and the production and metabolism of vasoactive substances.