Chest Medicine
Subtitle: Essentials of Pulmonary and Critical Care Medicine
Contributors: Ronald B. George (Editor)
Edition: 4th edition
Publisher: Lippincott Williams & Wilkins
Published: July 15, 2000
Language: eng
Format: Hardcover
Number of pages: 688
ISBN-13: 9780683306675
Subjects: Accident & emergency medicine; Respiratory medicine; Pulmonary & Thoracic Medicine; Medical / Nursing; Critical Care; Lung Diseases; Medical
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.