SCIENTIFIC AND TECHNICAL RESEARCH COMMITTEE ON SAFETY AND HEALTH IN EXTRACTIVE INDUSTRIES
Western medicine and the Chinese vision
Papers and debates, 18 November 1999
1st part : Western medicine  
Summary

 
 
 
1945 - 2000
HALF A CENTURY OF DIAGNOSTIC AND THERAPEUTIC PROGRESS
 

M. MARQUET

APPENDIX
FUNCTIONAL RFSPIRATORY TESTS
Traditional spirometry has been replaced by the computer which allows the simultaneous study of exhaled and inhaled rates and volumes in the ambient air.

Full size image
 
 

The study of blood gases by radial arterial puncture or percutaneous measurement of oxyhernoglobin saturation has become an essential complement in assessing respiratory insufficiencies.


Full size image                    Full size image                  Full size image               Full size image