Cotes' lung function

"The only text to cover lung function assessment from first principles including methodology, reference values and interpretation. Editors are amongst the world's leading authorities on lung function. 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 a stronger clinical and practical bias and more on new techniques and equipment"--

Preceded by Lung function : physiology, measurement and application in medicine / J.E. Cotes, D.J. Chinn, M.R. Miller. 2006.

Part I. Introduction: 1. How we came to have lungs and how our understanding of lung function has developed -- Part II. Foundations: 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 : epidemiological methods -- 9. The application of analytical technique applied to expired air as a means of monitoring airway and lung function -- Part III. Physiology and measurement lung function: 10. Chest wall and respiratory muscles -- 11. Lung volumes -- 12. Lung and chest wall elasticity -- 13. Forced ventilation volumes and flows -- 14. Theory and measurement of respiratory resistances -- 15. The control of airway function and the assessment of airway calibre -- 16. Ventilation, blood flow, and their inter-relationships -- 17. Transfer of gases into the blood of alveolar capillaries -- 18. Transfer factor (Tl) for carbon monoxide (CO) and nitric oxide (NO) -- 19. Oxygen : uptake and transport in the blood -- 20. Carbon dioxide : gas exchange a…