Understanding Abgs and Lung Function Tests

Titles in the Pocket Tutor series give practical guidance on subjects that medical students and foundation doctors need help with ‘on the go’, at a highly-affordable price that puts them within reach of those rotating through modular courses or working on attachment. Topics reflect information needs stemming from today’s integrated undergraduate and foundation courses: Common presentations Investigation options (e.g. ECG, imaging) Clinical and patient-orientated skills (e.g. examinations, history taking). The highly-structured, bite-size content helps novices combat the ‘fear factor’ associated with day-to-day clinical training and provides a detailed resource that students and junior doctors can carry in their pocket.

Muhunthan Thillai BA MRCP PhD is Lead Clinician, at Cambridge Interstitial Lung Unit, Royal Papworth Hospital NHS Foundation Trust, Visiting Senior Research Fellow, University of Cambridge,UK.

Peter Bailey MBBS is Specialty Registrar in Respiratory Medicine, at Royal Papworth Hospital NHS Foundation Trust, Evelyn Trust Fellow, Cambridge, UK.

Keith Hattotuwa MBBS FRCP is Consultant Physician, Senior Lecturer in Respiratory Medicine, at Broomfield Hospital, Mid Essex NHS Foundation Trust, Chelmsford, UK.