Physiology and Practice of Pulmonary Function

Edited by J.M.B. Hughes Published by the Association for Respiratory Technology and Physiology (ARTP), UK Pages: 323. Price: £24.95. ISBN: 978-0-9536898-5-9 The knowledge of respiratory physiology has progressed considerably in recent decades. However, the current tendency in clinical practice has been to restrict pulmonary function testing to simple spirometry, while most of the advanced methods have been considered as unnecessary or even esoteric. This has probably been due to a growing enthusiasm towards easy-to-measure biological markers, …