The seventh edition of the most authoritative and comprehensive book published on lung function, now completely revised and restructured, serves as both a theoretical textbook and practical manual. It provides a thorough account of lung function assessment in healthy individuals and those with various respiratory disorders against the backdrop of respiratory, exercise, and environmental physiology.

Highlighting the central pillar of respiratory diagnosis, this edition incorporates the technical and methodological recommendations for lung function testing from the American Thoracic Society and European Respiratory Society. It is enriched with chapters on respiratory surveys, respiratory muscles, neonatal assessment, exercise, sleep, high altitude, hyperbaria, effects of cold and heat, respirable dusts, fumes and vapors, anesthesia, surgery, and respiratory rehabilitation.

The book also offers a compendium of lung function in selected individual diseases and features more diagrams and illustrative cases than previous editions. With 816 pages, it is an essential resource for respiratory physicians, physiologists, and technicians involved in the assessment of lung function.