The seventh edition of the most authoritative and comprehensive book published on lung function, now completely revised and restructured Lung function assessment is the central pillar of respiratory diagnosis. Most hospitals have lung function laboratories where patients are tested with a variety of physiological methods. The tests and techniques used are specialized and utilize the expertise of respiratory physicians, physiologists, and technicians. This new edition of the classic text on lung function is a theoretical textbook and practical manual in one that gives a comprehensive account of lung function and its assessment in healthy persons and those with all types of respiratory disorder, against a background of respiratory, exercise, and environmental physiology. It incorporates the technical and methodological recommendations for lung function testing of the American Thoracic Society and European Respiratory Society. Cotes' Lung Function, 7th Edition is filled with chapters covering respiratory surveys, respiratory muscles, neonatal assessment, exercise, sleep, high altitude, hyperbaria, the effects of cold and heat, respirable dusts, fumes and vapors, anesthesia, surgery, and respiratory rehabilitation. It also offers a compendium of lung function in selected individual diseases and is filled with more diagrams and illustrative cases than previous editions. The only text to cover lung function assessment from first principles including methodology, reference values, and interpretation Completely re-written in a contemporary style—includes user-friendly equations and more diagrams Covers the latest advances in the treatment of lung function, including a stronger clinical and practical bias and more on new techniques and equipment Keeps mathematical treatments to a minimum Cotes' Lung Function is an ideal guide for respiratory physicians and surgeons, staff of lung function laboratories, and others who have a professional interest in the function of the lungs at rest or on exercise and how it may be assessed. Physiologists, anthropologists, pediatricians, anesthetists, occupational physicians, explorers, epidemiologists, and respiratory nurses should also find the book useful.

Table of Contents:
Preface xxvii Contributors xxix Part I Introduction 1 1 How We Came to Have Lungs and How Our Understanding of Lung Function has Developed 3 Part II Foundations 21 2 Getting Started 23 3 Development and Functional Anatomy of the Respiratory System 33 Sungmi Jung and Richard Fraser 4 Body Size and Anthropometric Measurements 45 5 Numerical Interpretation of Physiological Variables 57 J. Martin Bland 6 Basic Terminology and Gas Laws 75 Adrian Kendrick 7 Basic Equipment and Measurement Techniques 91 Brendan G. Cooper 8 Respiratory Surveys 117 Peter G.J. Burney 9 The Application of Analytical Technique Applied to Expired Air as a Means of Monitoring Airway and Lung Function 129 Paolo Paredi and Peter Barnes Part III Physiology and Measurement of Lung Function 149 10 Chest Wall and Respiratory Muscles 151 Andre De Troyer and John Moxham 11 Lung Volumes 177 12 Lung and Chest Wall Elasticity 187 G. John Gibson 13 Forced Ventilatory Volumes and Flows 203 Riccardo Pellegrino 14 Theory and Measurement of Respiratory Resistance 217 Jason H.T. Bates 15 The Control of Airway Function and the Assessment of Airway Calibre 231 Eric Derom 16 Ventilation, Blood Flow, and Their Inter‐Relationships 259 G. Kim Prisk 17 Transfer of Gases into the Blood of Alveolar Capillaries 301 Eric Derom and Guy F. Joos 18 Transfer Factor (Tl) for carbon monoxide (CO) and nitric oxide (NO) 313 Colin D.R. Borland and Mike Hughes 19 Oxygen 353 Dan S. Karbing and Stephen E. Rees 20 Carbon Dioxide 377 Erik R. Swenson 21 Control of Respiration 389 Bertien M.‐A. Buyse 22 The Sensation of Breathing 407 Mathias Schroijen, Paul W. Davenport, Omer Van den Bergh, and Ilse Van Diest 23 Breathing Function in Newborn Babies 423 Urs P. Frey and Philipp Latzin Part IV Normal Variation in Lung Function 435 24 Normal Lung Function from Childhood to Old Age 437 Andrew Bush and Michael D.L. Morgan 25 Reference Values for Lung Function in White Children and Adults 463 26 Reference Values for Lung Function in Non‐White Adults and Children 499 Part V Exercise 517 27 Physiology of Exercise and Effects of Lung Disease on Performance 519 28 Exercise Testing and Interpretation, Including Reference Values 553 29 Assessment of Exercise Limitation, Disability, and Residual Ability 577 30 Exercise in Children 587 Andrew Bush Part VI Breathing During Sleep 595 31 Breathing During Sleep and its Investigation 597 Joerg Steier Part VII Potentially Adverse Environments 615 32 Hypobaria 617 James Milledge 33 Immersion in Water, Hyperbaria, and Hyperoxia Including Oxygen Therapy 639 Einar Thorsen 34 Effects of Cold and Heat on the Lung 653 Malcolm Sue‐Chu Part VIII Lung Function in Clinical Practice 661 35 Strategies for Assessment of Lung Function 663 James Hull 36 Patterns of Abnormal Lung Function in Lung Disease 673 William Kinnear 37 Lung Function in Asthma, Chronic Obstructive Pulmonary Disease, and Lung Fibrosis 681 Wim Janssens and Pascal Van Bleyenbergh 38 Lung Function in Specific Respiratory and Systemic Diseases 697 Stephen J. Bourke 39 Pulmonary Rehabilitation 729 Sally Singh 40 Lung Function in Relation to Surgery, Anaesthesia, and Intensive Care 737 Goran Hedenstierna Index 751