Multiple Choice Questions

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• Chapter 1 Structure of the respiratory system: lungs, airways and dead space
• Chapter 2 The thoracic cage and respiratory muscles
• Chapter 3 Pressures and volumes during normal breathing
• Chapter 4 Gas laws
• Chapter 5 Diffusion
• Chapter 6 Lung mechanics: elastic forces
• Chapter 7 Lung mechanics: airway resistance
• Chapter 8 Carriage of oxygen
• Chapter 9 Carriage of carbon dioxide
• Chapter 10 Acid–base balance
• Chapter 11 Acid–base disorders
• Chapter 12 Control of breathing I: chemical mechanisms
• Chapter 13 Control of breathing II: neural mechanisms
• Chapter 14 Pulmonary circulation and anatomical right-to-left shunts
• Chapter 15 Ventilation–perfusion mismatching
• Chapter 16 Exercise, altitude and diving
• Chapter 17 Development of the respiratory system and birth
• Chapter 18 Complications of development and congenital disease
• Chapter 19 Lung defence mechanisms
• Chapter 20 Immunology of the lung
• Chapter 21 History and examination
• Chapter 22 Pulmonary function tests
• Chapter 23 Chest imaging and bronchoscopy
• Chapter 24 Public health and smoking
• Chapter 25 Respiratory failure
• Chapter 26 Asthma: pathophysiology
• Chapter 27 Asthma: treatment
• Chapter 28 Chronic obstructive pulmonary disease
• Chapter 29 Pulmonary hypertension
• Chapter 30 Venous thromboembolism and pulmonary embolism
• Chapter 31 Pulmonary involvement in vasculitis
• Chapter 32/33 Diffuse parenchymal (interstitial) lung diseases/Sarcoidosis
• Chapter 34 Pleural diseases
• Chapter 35 Occupational and environmental-related lung disease
• Chapter 36 Cystic fibrosis and bronchiectasis
• Chapter 37 Pneumothorax
• Chapter 38/39 Community-acquired pneumonia/Hospital-acquired (nosocomial) pneumonia
• Chapter 40 Pulmonary tuberculosis
• Chapter 41 The immune-compromised patient
• Chapter 42 Lung cancer
• Chapter 43 Acute respiratory distress syndrome
• Chapter 44 Mechanical ventilation
• Chapter 45 Oxygenation and oxygen therapy
• Chapter 46 Sleep apnoea