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Mechanics of Lung and Chest Wall

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Arthur Otis has already provided a historical account of respiratory mechanics spanning two millennia (49). This chapter will emphasize events occurring more or less within living memory in what can be referred to as the pressure—volume era. Fritz Rohrer showed the way (56). As I put it in 1975 (63); his “intentional simplification of the complex motions and forces of respiration to single variables—volumes and pressures—is the basis of most of the advances in the field of respiratory mechanics of the past 50 years.”

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Mead, J. (1996). Mechanics of Lung and Chest Wall. In: West, J.B. (eds) Respiratory Physiology. People and Ideas. Springer, New York, NY. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-1-4614-7520-0_6

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