RESPIRATORY PHYSIOLOGY
Text Assignments: Guyton & Hall

TEXT ASSIGNMENTS: Guyton, A.C. and Hall, J.E, Textbook of Medical Physiology, 10th edtion, 2000.

Subject Guyton & Hall Text

Respiratory Ventilation

Chapter 37: Pulmonary Ventilation (whole chapter except section on Alveolar Ventilation)

Chapter 42, sections on Maximum Expiratory Flow, Forced Expiratory Vital Capacity, Emphysema, Atelectasis, and Asthma

Alveolar Gas Exchange

Chapter 37, section on Alveolar Ventilation

Chapter 39: Physical Principles of Gas Exchange (whole chapter except section on Effect of Ventilation-Perfusion on Alveolar Gas Concentration)

Blood Gas Transport

Chapter 40: Transport of Oxygen and Carbon Dioxide in the Blood and Body Fluids (whole chapter

Pulmonary Circulation Chapter 38: Pulmonary Circulation (whole chapter)
Alveolar-Arterial Equilibration Chapter 39, section on Effect of Ventilation-Perfusion on Alveolar Gas Concentration

Chapter 42, section on Hypoxia and Oxygen Therapy and section on Hypercapnia
Regulation of Respiration Chapter 41: Regulation of Respiration (whole chapter)