Univ. of CA, San Diego. A textbook teaching students about normal and abnormal pulmonary function, with a clinical case study in the beginning of each chapter. Includes end-of-chapter review questions and three appendices, including one with the answers to the chapter review questions. Softcover.
Customer Reviews:
Avg. Customer Rating: 4.5 / 5.0
Pulmonary Physiology and Pathophysiology: An Integrated, Case-Based Approach:
This book is readable and concise. Physiology and pathophysiology are applied to each case study. However, the chest X-ray findings are not reproduced well in the figures.
Primer for picu and pulmonary.:
Again, harmless review. Only when you know what is truly normal, can you understand the abnormal.
I'm still clueless though...
Concise and Easy:
This is really a lovely book for clearing up concepts in pulmonary physiology. Dr West, one of the globally famous physiology author, integrated pulmonary pathology with the underlining physiology in this thin book. He tried to help students understand what goes wrong in numerous common lung and airway problems with the interesting cases he presented. As he pointed out in the preface, he intended to make this book as concise as possible in order to fit the modern cirriculum by sparing more time for students... more info
