Lung Function covers lung function assessment from first principles including methodology, reference values and interpretation.

Lung Function features:

• More illustrations to convey concepts clearly to the busy physician
• Text completely re-written in a contemporary style: includes user-friendly equations and more diagrams
• New material covering the latest advances in the treatment of lung function, including more on sleep-related disorders, a stronger clinical and practical bias and more on new techniques and equipment
• Uses the standard Vancouver referencing system

Contents

Foundations

1. Early Developments and Future Prospects
2. Getting Started
3. Development and Functional Anatomy of the Respiratory System
4. Body Size and Anthropometric Measurements
5. Numerical Interpretation of Physiological Variables
6. Basic Terminology and Gas Laws
7. Basic Equipment and Measurement Techniques
8. Respiratory Surveys

Physiology and Measurement of Lung Function

9. Thoracic Cage and Respiratory Muscles
10. Lung Volumes
11. Lung and Chest Wall Elasticity
12. Forced Ventilatory Volumes and Flows (Ventilatory Capacity)
13. Determinants of Maximal Flows (Flow Limitation)
14. Theory and Measurement of Respiratory Resistance (Including Whole Body Plethysmography)
15. Control of Airway Calibre and Assessment of Changes
16. Distribution of Ventilation
17. Distribution and Measurement of Pulmonary Blood Flow
18. Inter-relations Between Lung Ventilation and Perfusion
19. Transfer of Gases into Blood in Alveolar Capillaries
20. Transfer Factor (Diffusing Capacity) for Carbon Monoxide and Nitric Oxide
21. The Oxygenation of Blood
22. Gas Exchange for Carbon Dioxide and Acid-Base Balance
23. Control of Respiration
24. Newborn Babies, Infants and Young Children (Ages 0–6 years)

Normal Variation in Lung Function

25. Normal Lung Function from Childhood to Old Age
26. Reference Values for Lung Function in White (Caucasian) Children and Adults
27. Genetic Diversity: Reference Values in non-Caucasians

Exercise

28. Physiology of Exercise and Changes Resulting from Lung Disease
29. Exercise Testing and Interpretation, including Reference Values
30. Assessment of Exercise Limitation, Disability and Residual Ability
31. Exercise in Children

Breathing During Sleep

32. Investigation and Physiology of Breathing During Sleep
33. Assessment and Treatment of Sleep Related Breathing Disorders
34. Potentially Adverse Environments
35. Hypobaria: High Altitude and Aviation Physiology and Medicine
36. Immersion in Water, Hyperbaria and Hyperoxia Including Oxygen Therapy
37. Cold, Heat and the Lungs
38. Airborne Respiratory Hazards: Features, Protective Mechanisms and Consequences

Lung Function in Clinical Practice

39. Patterns of Abnormal Function in Lung Disease
40. Strategies For Assessment
41. Lung Function in Asthma, COPD, Emphysema and Diffuse Lung Fibrosis
42. How Individual Diseases Affect Lung Function (Compendium)
43. Lung Function in Relation to General Anaesthesia and Artificial Ventilation
44. Lung Function in Relation to Surgery
45. Pulmonary Rehabilitation

Index

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