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The free, interactive web edition (2025) of the textbook Respiratory Physiology: A Clinical Approach, with most figures redrawn for the web and some new. Nine chapters cover the controller, the ventilatory pump and the gas exchanger: lung volumes and compliance, airway resistance and the flow-volume loop, ventilation-perfusion matching and oxygen transport, control of breathing, acid-base physiology, dyspnea, and exercise. Each chapter has learning objectives and summary points, and most end with review questions. The book has 39 interactive figures, many of which readers can adjust with sliders, plus a glossary and a concept map. No account is needed. The free, interactive web edition (2025) of the textbook Respiratory Physiology: A Clinical Approach, with most figures redrawn for the web and some new. Nine chapters cover the controller, the ventilatory pump and the gas exchanger: lung volumes and compliance, airway resistance and the flow-volume loop, ventilation-perfusion matching and oxygen transport, control of breathing, acid-base physiology, dyspnea, and exercise. Each chapter has learning objectives and summary points, and most end with review questions. The book has 39 interactive figures, many of which readers can adjust with sliders, plus a glossary and a concept map. No account is needed. 

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