Essential for USMLE and certification review!

Gain a complete understanding of the aspects of pulmonary physiology essential to clinical medicine

For more than thirty-five years, this trusted review has provided students, residents, and fellows with a solid background in the aspects of pulmonary physiology that are essential for an understanding of clinical medicine. The book clearly describes how and why the human respiratory system works in a style that is easy to absorb and integrate with your existing knowledge of other body systems.

Features:

• Thoroughly updated with new figures, tables, and end-of-chapter references and clinical correlations

• Each chapter includes clearly stated learning objectives, summaries of key concepts, illustrations of essential concepts, clinical correlations, problems, and pulmonary function test data to interpret, and suggested readings

• Enables you to understand the basic concepts of pulmonary physiology well enough to apply them with confidence in future practice

• Provides detailed explanations of physiologic mechanisms and demonstrates how they apply to pathologic states

If you’re in need of a concise, time-tested, basic review of pulmonary physiology — one that encourages comprehension rather than memorization, your search ends here.

Contents

Chapter 1 Function and Structure of the Respiratory System
Chapter 2 Mechanics of Breathing
Chapter 3 Alveolar Ventilation
Chapter 4 Blood Flow to the Lung
Chapter 5 Ventilation-Perfusion Relationships
Chapter 6 Diffusion of Gases and Interpretation of Pulmonary Function Tests
Chapter 7 Transport of Oxygen and Carbon Dioxide in the Blood
Chapter 8 Acid-Base Balance
Chapter 9 Control of Breathing
Chapter 10 Non respiratory Functions of the Lung
Chapter 11 The Respiratory System Under Stress