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Fifth Edition
Edited By
Paul Davis, BSc, CPhys, MIstP, MIPSM, Principal Physicist, West of Scotland Health Boards' Department of Clinical Physics and Bio-Engineering, Glasgow, UK
Gavin Kenny, BSc(Hons), MD, FRCA, Senior Lecturer, Department of Anaesthesia, University of Glasgow; Head of Anaesthesia, HCI International, Glasgow, UK
Description
An introductory text to the physical principles and their clinical application in anaesthesia. From SHO, through specialist training,
this book gives a firm grounding, avoiding complex mathematics and irrelevant detail. Measurement and monitoring are a key element of
anaesthesia for both nurses and anaesthetists.
Audience
Anesthesia, Critical Care, and Emergency Medicine Residents, Medical Students, Critical Care Nurses, Health Science Libraries
Contents
1. Pressure
2. Fluid flow
3. Volume and flow measurement
4. The gas laws
5. Natural exponential functions
6. Solubility
7.
Diffusion and osmosis
8. Work, energy and power
9. Temperature
10. Heat capacity and latent heat
11. Vaporizers
12. Humidification
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The sine wave and wave patterns
14. Electricity
15. Biological electrical potentials:
their display and recording
16.
Electrical safety
17. Blood pressure measurement
18. Oxygen measurement
19. Hydrogen ion and carbon dioxide
measurement
20.
Further techniques of gas and vapour
analysis
21. Gas supplies
22. Breathing and scavenging systems
23. Fires and explosions
24.
Isotopes and radiation
25. Presentation and handling of data, basic
measurement concepts
26. Assessment of awareness during
anaesthesia
Appendix
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Paperback, 328 pages, publication date: JUN-2003
ISBN-13: 978-0-7506-4828-8
ISBN-10: 0-7506-4828-7
Imprint: BUTTERWORTH HEINEMANN
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Last update: 3 Oct 2009
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