Pulmonary Physiology, Tenth Edition

A Doody's Core Title for 2024 & 2023!

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

For more than 35 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.

Pulmonary Physiology 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