Lung Function (7th Edition) – eBook PDF

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Lung Function (7th Edition) – eBook PDF

The seventh edition of the most authoritative and comprehensive ebook published on lung function, now fully revised and restructured.

Lung function assessment is the essential pillar of respiratory diagnosis. Most hospitals have lung function laboratories where patients are tested with a number of physiological methods. The techniques and tests used are specialized and use the expertise of respiratory physiologists, physicians, and technicians. The 7e of the classic text on lung function is a theoretical textbook and practical manual one that provides a comprehensive account of lung function and its assessment in healthy persons and those with all kinds of a respiratory disorder, against a background of respiratory, exercise, and environmental physiology. It includes the technical and methodological recommendations for lung function testing of the American Thoracic Society and European Respiratory Society.

Cotes’ Lung Function, 7^th Edition, (PDF) is filled with chapters including respiratory surveys, respiratory muscles, neonatal assessment, sleep, high altitude, exercise, hyperbaric, the effects of cold and heat, respirable dust, anesthesia, surgery, and respiratory rehabilitation. It also presents a compendium of lung function in selected individual diseases and is packed with more diagrams and illustrative cases than prior editions.

• Keeps mathematical treatments to the slightest
• Completely re-written in a modern style—includes user-friendly equations and more diagrams.
• The only text to include lung function assessment from first principles, including methodology, reference values, and interpretation
• Includes the latest advances in the treatment of lung function, including a stronger clinical and practical bias and more on new equipment and techniques

Cotes’ Lung Function is the perfect guide for respiratory physicians and surgeons, staff of lung function laboratories, and others who have a professional concern in the function of the lungs at rest or on exercise and how it may be assessed. Physiologists, pediatricians, anesthetists, anthropologists, occupational physicians, epidemiologists, explorers, and respiratory nurses should also find the ebook useful.

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