Paediatric Lung Function

• Editorial: European Respiratory Society
• Año: 2010
• ISBN:
  9781904097983
• Categoría: Medizin
• Categoría: Lungenheilkunde & Thoraxmedizin

This book offers a comprehensive review of the lung function techniques that are available today in paediatric pulmonology. This field is still developing rapidly and equipment and software can tell us more than ever about respiratory physiology in health and disease in children with various lung disorders.

Índice

• Cover
• Contents
• Guest editors
• Preface
• Introduction
• Chapter 1 - Developmental physiology: lung function during growth and development from birth to old age
• Chapter 2 - Genetic and environmental factors influencing lung growth and lung function
• Techniques
• Chapter 3 - Tidal breathing techniques
• Chapter 4 - Forced expiratory manoeuvres
• Chapter 5 - Plethysmography
• Chapter 6 - Multiple-breath washout
• Chapter 7 - Interrupter technique and passive respiratory mechanics
• Chapter 8 - Forced oscillation technique
• Chapter 9 - Exhaled nitric oxide measurements
• Chapter 10 - Exhaled breath condensates
• Chapter 11 - Lung function and electromyography of the respiratory muscles
• Chapter 12 - Electrical impedance tomography
• Which test is best? Clinical relevance of paediatric lung function
• Chapter 13 - Asthma and wheezing disorders
• Chapter 14 - Cystic fibrosis
• Chapter 15 - Control of breathing
• Chapter 16 - Pulmonary function testing in premature infants and infants with bronchopulmonary dysplasia
• Chapter 17 - Congenital lung abnormalities
• Chapter 18 - Lung function testing in the paediatric intensive care unit
• Chapter 19 - Paediatric exercise testing
• Chapter 20 - New methods: what do they tell us? Fluctuation analysis of lung function
• Previously published