Tag: Respiratory

December 9, 2024

Control of the Cardiovascular and Respiratory Systems in Health and Disease

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Free Download Control of the Cardiovascular and Respiratory Systems in Health and Disease By John T. Shepherd (auth.), C. Tissa Kappagoda, Marc P. Kaufman (eds.)
1995 | 224 Pages | ISBN: 146135773X | PDF | 19 MB
On April 8-9, 1994, a symposium entitled Control of the Cardiovascular and Respiratory Systems in Health and Disease was held at the University of California Davis Medical Center in Sacramento. The purpose of this symposium was to honor the careers of Professors Hazel M. and John C. G. Coleridge. Participants in this symposium came from throughout the world. Their attendance at the symposium was a symbol of great respect and affection for the honorees. The Professors Coleridge have made many important contribu tions to the scientific literature concerning neural control of the cardiovascular and respira tory systems. In addition, they have made remarkable contributions to the lives of other scientists working in this field of investigation. Some of us have known them as mentors, counselors, friends, and supervisors; others have known them as co-investigators. Most importantly, all of us have known them as friends. This book, which contains the proceedings of the symposium, is dedicated to Hazel and John Coleridge. C. T. Kappagoda M. P. Kaufman v ACKNOWLEDGMENTS We wish to acknowledge the financial support of the following agencies for making this symposium a reality: * Astra Merck Group (Tarek Ackad, M. D. , Ph. D. ) * Boehringer Ingelheim Pharmaceuticals, Inc. (Ms. Kathryn B. Lucas and Mr. Allan Holloway) * Bristol-Myers Squibb (David L. Cram, Jr. , Pharm. D. ) * Marion/Merrrell Dow, Inc. (Mr. Brian Scheffield) * Merck and Company (Mr. Johnathan Sakakibara) * Pfizer Laboratories (Mr.

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September 15, 2024

MRCP SCE in Respiratory Medicine 300 SBAs Ed 2

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Free Download Laura-Jane Smith, "MRCP SCE in Respiratory Medicine: 300 SBAs Ed 2"
English | ASIN : B0CWDB5PJ3 | 2023 | 320 pages | PDF | 5 MB
MRCP SCE in Respiratory Medicine: 300 SBAs is a unique resource that offers a wealth of practice questions for candidates preparing for the Specialty Certificate Exam in Respiratory Medicine. Chapters in the book correspond to the topics in the syllabus, while the number of questions in each chapter is weighted in accordance with the College’s exam blueprint. The book features questions written in line with relevant UK and international guidelines and is an indispensable revision aid designed to maximize the chances of exam success.

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September 13, 2024

Stem Cells in the Respiratory System

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Free Download Stem Cells in the Respiratory System By Mauricio Rojas
2010 | 400 Pages | ISBN: 1607617749 | PDF | 6 MB
In this state-of-the-art exploration of a hugely dynamic and fast-evolving field of research, leading researchers share their collective wisdom on the role that stem cells could play in the context of physiological stress and lung injury. The text focuses on reviewing the most relevant-and recent-ideas on using local, endogenous, and exogenous progenitor/stem cells in preventing and treating injury to the lung. The lungs are one of the most complex organs in the human body, with a mature adult lung boasting at least 40 morphologically differentiated cell lineages. Our entire blood supply passes through the lung’s alveolar units during oxygenation. This interaction with the outside world, along with the intricacies of its structure, makes the lung a highly susceptible organ that is vulnerable to numerous types of injury and infection. This means that the mechanisms of lung repair are in themselves correspondingly complex. Because of their multipotentiality, as well as the fact of the lung’s relatively rapid cell turnover, stem cells are thought to be an important alternative cell-base therapy in lung injury. Despite the controversial nature of stem cell research, there has been growing interest in both local and endogenous stem cells in the lung. This highly topical book with chapters on everything from using mesenchymal stem cells in lung repair to the effect of physical activity on the mobilization of stem and progenitor cells, represents an exciting body of work by outstanding investigators and will be required reading for those with an interest in the subject.

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September 12, 2024

Respiratory Physiology of Newborn Mammals A Comparative Perspective

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Free Download Jacopo P. Mortola MD, "Respiratory Physiology of Newborn Mammals: A Comparative Perspective"
English | 2001 | pages: 363 | ISBN: 0801864976 | PDF | 0,9 mb
Respiratory Physiology of Newborn Mammals: A Comparative Perspective emphasizes common trends among mammalian species in an effort to extract general rules about both the structure and the mechanisms of neonatal respiration. Jacopo P. Mortola outlines the key aspects of developmental respiratory physiology in the perinatal period. Based on what is learned from interspecies comparisons, Mortola addresses the question of how pulmonary ventilation fulfills the metabolic requirements of the newborn infant. Exceptions to the rules illuminate adaptations to particular tasks or conditions. Each chapter concludes with interspecies comparisons and clinical implications for the medically or zoologically oriented reader. The combination of developmental and comparative perspectives offers an original contribution to the field of developmental physiology.

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September 12, 2024

Prediction and Classification of Respiratory Motion

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Free Download Prediction and Classification of Respiratory Motion By Suk Jin Lee, Yuichi Motai (auth.)
2014 | 167 Pages | ISBN: 3642415083 | PDF | 10 MB
This book describes recent radiotherapy technologies including tools for measuring target position during radiotherapy and tracking-based delivery systems. This book presents a customized prediction of respiratory motion with clustering from multiple patient interactions. The proposed method contributes to the improvement of patient treatments by considering breathing pattern for the accurate dose calculation in radiotherapy systems. Real-time tumor-tracking, where the prediction of irregularities becomes relevant, has yet to be clinically established. The statistical quantitative modeling for irregular breathing classification, in which commercial respiration traces are retrospectively categorized into several classes based on breathing pattern are discussed as well. The proposed statistical classification may provide clinical advantages to adjust the dose rate before and during the external beam radiotherapy for minimizing the safety margin.In the first chapter following the Introduction to this book, we review three prediction approaches of respiratory motion: model-based methods, model-free heuristic learning algorithms, and hybrid methods. In the following chapter, we present a phantom study-prediction of human motion with distributed body sensors-using a Polhemus Liberty AC magnetic tracker. Next we describe respiratory motion estimation with hybrid implementation of extended Kalman filter. The given method assigns the recurrent neural network the role of the predictor and the extended Kalman filter the role of the corrector. After that, we present customized prediction of respiratory motion with clustering from multiple patient interactions. For the customized prediction, we construct the clustering based on breathing patterns of multiple patients using the feature selection metrics that are composed of a variety of breathing features. We have evaluated the new algorithm by comparing the prediction overshoot and the tracking estimation value. The experimental results of 448 patients’ breathing patterns validated the proposed irregular breathing classifier in the last chapter.

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