Pulmonary Function Indices in Critical Care Patients
Respiration is a unique topic among various subdisciplines of physiology. Physiolo gists and clinicians are now able to communicate quantitative functional properties of lung mechanics and gas exchange in the language of the engineer, physicist and mathe
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Pulmonary Function Indices in Critical Care Patients
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Josef X. Brunner, Dr. Sc. techno Address during preparation of this book: Research Assistant of Clinical Physiology University of Basel Kantonsspital CH-4031 Basel Switzerland Current address: Department of Anesthesiology Division of Biomedical Engineering 3 C 444 University of Utah Medical Center Salt Lake City, Utah 84132 USA
Gunther Wolff, M. D., FMH Surgery Professor for Surgery' and Intensive Care Medicine Head of Clinical Physiology Address: Clinic for Thoracic and Cardiac Surgery Department of Surgery University of Basel Kantonsspital CH-4031 Basel Switzerland
e-ISBN-13: 978-3-642-73040-5 ISBN-13: 978-3-540-18432-4 001: 10.1007/978-3-642-73040-5
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Library Congress Cataloging~in-Publication Data. Brunner, Josef X., 1956-. Pulmonary function indices in critical care patients. Bibliography: p. Includes index.!. Pulmonary function tests. 2. Critical care medicine. I. Wolff, Gunther, 1932-. iI. Title. RC 734.P84B78 1988 616.2'4'028 88-3161
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Foreword
Respiration is a unique topic among various subdisciplines of physiology. Physiologists and clinicians are now able to communicate quantitative functional properties of lung mechanics and gas exchange in the language of the engineer, physicist and mathematician. This is largely due to intensive and stimulating work during the last decades of brilliant minds in a handful of excellent schools in the international family of physiologists. Among these founders of respiratory physiology are a number of clinicians, and they have. taken significant ,part both in shaping the theoretical knowledge to clinical applicability and developing technical devices for diagnosis and therapy in pulmonology. However, the theory behind the evaluation of measurements, and their interpretation in terms of clinical function tests, is so
