Peak flow measurement. An illustrated guide

Neoplastic gastrointestinal pathology: an illustrated guide.

The title of this book would not have attracted my attention prior to being asked to review it. Neoplasia is covered in detail in existing GI pathology textbooks and there are also atlases of GI pathology. A quick glance at the contents, however, and I think the book should have been entitled ‘A Practical Guide (or Approach) to Neoplastic Gastrointestinal Pathology’. The introductory chapter co...

An Illustrated Guide to Gastrointestinal Motility

addresses the practical basis from which the medical student and physician must approach the treatment of diabetes. This book is the second edition of Olson's work. Its revisions include a new chapter on the"finger-stick" method of self-glucose testing, along with reviews of the "secondgeneration" sulfonylureas and the use of external and implanted insulin infusion pumps. Olson restructured his...

Measurement characteristics of peak expiratory flow.

STUDY OBJECTIVES To evaluate features of the peak expiratory flow (PEF) test protocol, and to characterize patterns of reproducibility in multiple PEF measurements. DESIGN Cross-sectional study. SETTING University population. PARTICIPANTS Two hundred twenty-three healthy adults. INTERVENTIONS Participants recorded five PEF measurements in each of five sessions per day for 1 week. MEAS...

Blood pressure measurement: an illustrated history

be invaluable. By this period, too, mass production was beginning to shape the face of instruments (are there deep historical relations between mass production and asepsis?). Edmonson takes his story up to 1900 when radical surgery for conservative ends was introduced. By now mass marketing accompanied mass production and the American domestic industry felt the heat of competition, notably from...

Peak inspiratory flow: measurement using a modified mini Wright peak flow meter.