Just enough physiology
Just Enough Physiology takes the reader on a guided tour of cardiopulmonary physiology. You'll discover how the heart, lungs, and circulation work in extreme environments so that you're better equipped to understand how they function-or malfunction-at the bedside, in the operating room, or...
Clasificación: | Libro Electrónico |
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Formato: | Electrónico eBook |
Idioma: | Inglés |
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Rochester, MN Oxford New York
Mayo Clinic Scientific Press Oxford University Press
[2012]
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Acceso en línea: | Texto completo |
Tabla de Contenidos:
- Pressure and its measurement
- Atmospheric and alveolar pressures
- Hydrostatic pressure
- Doctor Dolittle visits a sitting case
- In the loop : left ventricular pressures
- What goes around comes around : venous return
- Pushmi-pullyu and the right atrium
- Pressure and flow : chickens and eggs
- Down but not out : circulatory arrest pressures
- Starling's riddle of the broken heart
- Oxygen and the gradients of life
- The two doctors Fick
- A breath of fresh air : ventilation
- Pulmonary function tests
- Where breath meets blood : lung perfusion
- Bird brains and bird breath
- Diffusion limitation : Montana style
- Man, machine, and homeostasis
- Putting it all together : manned space flight