UID:
almafu_9959328638602883
Format:
1 online resource (xi, 636 pages) :
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illustrations
Edition:
6th ed.
ISBN:
9781444312829
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1444312820
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9781444312836
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1444312839
Note:
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 years) -- 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 and interpretation, including 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 asthman, COPD, emphysema and diffuse lung fibrosis -- How individual diseases affect lung function (compendium) -- Lung function in relation to general anaesthesia and artificial ventilation -- Lung function in relation to surgery -- Pulmonary rehabilitation.
Additional Edition:
Print version: Cotes, J.E. Lung function. Malden, Mass. ; Oxford : Blackwell Pub., 2006 ISBN 0632064935
Additional Edition:
ISBN 9780632064939
Language:
English
Keywords:
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DOI:
10.1002/9781444312829
URL:
https://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/book/10.1002/9781444312829
URL:
https://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/book/10.1002/9781444312829
URL:
https://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/book/10.1002/9781444312829
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