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Short description The new edition of this systems-based at a Glance integrates both basic and clinical science to provide a simple "one-stop" course and study text, and includes self-assessment questions and answers and an appendix of tables of standard values.
From the contents Preface to third edition 6
Units and symbols 7
List of abbreviations 8
Structure and function
1 Structure of the respiratory system: lungs, airways and dead
space 10
2 The thoracic cage and respiratory muscles 12
3 Pressures and volumes during normal breathing 14
4 Gas laws 16
5 Diffusion 18
6 Lung mechanics: elastic forces 20
7 Lung mechanics: airway resistance 22
8 Carriage of oxygen 24
9 Carriage of carbon dioxide 26
10 Control of acid-base balance 28
11 Control of breathing I: chemical mechanisms 30
12 Control of breathing II: neural mechanisms 32
13 Pulmonary circulation and anatomical right-to-left shunts 34
14 Ventilation-perfusion mismatching 36
15 Exercise, altitude and diving 38
16 Development of the respiratory system and birth 40
17 Complications of development and congenital disease 42
18 Lung defence mechanisms and immunology 44
History, examination and investigation
19 History and examination 46
20 Pulmonary function tests 48
21 Chest imaging and bronchoscopy 50
Diseases and treatment
22 Public health and smoking 52
23 Respiratory failure 54
24 Asthma: pathophysiology 56
25 Asthma: treatment 58
26 Chronic obstructive pulmonary disease 60
27 Pulmonary hypertension 62
28 Venous thromboembolism and pulmonary embolism 64
