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• Normal ranges and thresholds vary between sources and laboratories. Each lesson states the convention it uses.
• Teaching models (for example a schematic pressure–volume loop) simplify reality to make one idea clear. Values in such models are illustrative.
• All patients in examples and questions are synthetic.

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