Pneumology

  Basic Information: Year: 2014 Page Number: 496 File Type: PDF File Size: 10.55 MB Authors/ Editiors: Swenson, Erik R., Bärtsch, Peter Description: Over the last decade the science and medicine of high altitude and hypoxia adaptation has seen great advances. High Altitude: Human Adaptation to Hypoxia addresses the challenges in dealing with the changes in human physiology and the particular medical conditions that arise from exposure to high altitude. In-depth and comprehensive chapters cover both the basic science and the clinical...

  Basic Information: Year: 2017 Page Number: 185 File Type: PDF File Size: 3.73 MB Authors/ Editiors: Lynn M. Schnapp, MD Description: Acute Respiratory Distress Syndrome (ARDS) remains an important cause of morbidity and mortality worldwide, and the incidence is predicted to increase with the aging population Several clinical disorders can initiate ARDS, including pneumonia, sepsis, gastric aspiration and trauma but despite intense research over the past 40 years, we still have an incomplete understanding of the pathophysiology of the disease and...