BOOK COVER -- TITLE -- COPYRIGHT -- CONTENTS -- INTRODUCTION -- CHAPTER 1 ANATOMY AND FUNCTION OF THE HUMAN RESPIRATORY SYSTEM -- THE DESIGN OF THE RESPIRATORY SYSTEM -- MORPHOLOGY OF THE UPPER AIRWAYS -- THE NOSE -- THE PHARYNX -- MORPHOLOGY OF THE LOWER AIRWAYS -- THE LARYNX -- THE TRACHEA AND THE STEM BRONCHI -- STRUCTURAL DESIGN OF THE AIRWAY TREE -- THE LUNGS -- GROSS ANATOMY -- PULMONARY SEGMENTS -- THE BRONCHI AND BRONCHIOLES -- THE GAS-EXCHANGE REGION -- BLOOD VESSELS, LYMPHATIC VESSELS, AND NERVES -- LUNG DEVELOPMENT -- CHAPTER 2 CONTROL AND MECHANICS OF BREATHING -- CONTROL OF BREATHING -- CENTRAL ORGANIZATION OF RESPIRATORY NEURONS -- CHEMORECEPTORS -- PERIPHERAL CHEMORECEPTORS -- CENTRAL CHEMORECEPTORS -- MUSCLE AND LUNG RECEPTORS -- VARIATIONS IN BREATHING -- EXERCISE -- SLEEP -- THE MECHANICS OF BREATHING -- THE LUNG-CHEST SYSTEM -- THE ROLE OF MUSCLES -- THE RESPIRATORY PUMP AND ITS PERFORMANCE -- CHAPTER 3 GAS EXCHANGE AND RESPIRATORY ADAPTATION -- GAS EXCHANGE -- TRANSPORT OF OXYGEN -- TRANSPORT OF CARBON DIOXIDE -- GAS EXCHANGE IN THE LUNG -- ABNORMAL GAS EXCHANGE -- INTERPLAY OF RESPIRATION, CIRCULATION, AND METABOLISM -- ADAPTATIONS -- HIGH ALTITUDES -- SWIMMING AND DIVING -- CHAPTER 4 INFECTIOUS DISEASES OF THE RESPIRATORY SYSTEM -- UPPER RESPIRATORY SYSTEM INFECTIONS -- COMMON COLD -- SORE THROAT -- PHARYNGITIS -- SINUSITIS -- TONSILLITIS -- LOWER RESPIRATORY SYSTEM INFECTIONS -- LARYNGITIS -- TRACHEITIS -- CROUP -- INFECTIOUS BRONCHITIS -- BRONCHIOLITIS -- INFLUENZA -- WHOOPING COUGH -- PSITTACOSIS -- PNEUMONIA -- LEGIONNAIRE DISEASE -- TUBERCULOSIS -- CHAPTER 5 DISEASES AND DISORDERS OF THE RESPIRATORY SYSTEM -- DISEASES OF THE UPPER AIRWAY -- SNORING -- SLEEP APNEA -- PICKWICKIAN SYNDROME -- DISEASES OF THE PLEURA -- PLEURISY -- PLEURAL EFFUSION AND THORACIC EMPYEMA -- PNEUMOTHORAX -- DISEASES OF THE BRONCHI AND LUNGS.

BRONCHIECTASIS -- CHRONIC BRONCHITIS -- PULMONARY EMPHYSEMA -- CHRONIC OBSTRUCTIVE PULMONARY DISEASE -- LUNG CONGESTION -- ATELECTASIS -- LUNG INFARCTION -- CYSTIC FIBROSIS -- IDIOPATHIC PULMONARY FIBROSIS -- SARCOIDOSIS AND EOSINOPHILIC GRANULOMA -- PULMONARY ALVEOLAR PROTEINOSIS -- IMMUNOLOGIC CONDITIONS OF THE LUNG -- LUNG CANCER -- DISEASES OF THE MEDIASTINUM AND DIAPHRAGM -- CHAPTER 6 ALLERGIC AND OCCUPATIONAL LUNG DISEASES AND ACUTE RESPIRATORY CONDITIONS -- ALLERGIC LUNG DISEASES -- ASTHMA -- HAY FEVER -- HYPERSENSITIVITY PNEUMONITIS -- OCCUPATIONAL LUNG DISEASE -- SILICOSIS -- BLACK LUNG -- ASBESTOSIS AND MESOTHELIOMA -- RESPIRATORY TOXICITY OF GLASS AND METAL FIBRES -- BYSSINOSIS -- RESPIRATORY TOXICITY OF INDUSTRIAL CHEMICALS -- DISABILITY AND ATTRIBUTION OF OCCUPATIONAL LUNG DISEASES -- OTHER RESPIRATORY CONDITIONS -- CIRCULATORY DISORDERS -- RESPIRATORY DISTRESS SYNDROME -- AIR POLLUTION -- CARBON MONOXIDE POISONING -- ACIDOSIS -- ALKALOSIS AND HYPERVENTILATION -- HYPOXIA -- ALTITUDE SICKNESS -- BAROTRAUMA AND DECOMPRESSION SICKNESS -- THORACIC SQUEEZE -- DROWNING -- CHAPTER 7 APPROACHES TO RESPIRATORY EVALUATION AND TREATMENT -- RECOGNIZING THE SIGNS AND SYMPTOMS OF DISEASE -- METHODS OF INVESTIGATION -- PULMONARY FUNCTION TEST -- CHEST X-RAY -- LUNG VENTILATION/PERFUSION SCAN -- BRONCHOSCOPY -- MEDIASTINOSCOPY -- TYPES OF RESPIRATORY THERAPY -- DRUG THERAPIES -- OXYGEN THERAPY -- ARTIFICIAL RESPIRATION -- THORACENTESIS -- HYPERBARIC CHAMBER -- LUNG TRANSPLANTATION -- CONCLUSION -- GLOSSARY -- BIBLIOGRAPHY -- INDEX -- BACK COVER.