Main description:

Most subjects in clinical physiology are difficult to understand. In a day and age where the multi-tasking health provider's time is precious and attention span short, it is necessary to retain focus on the aspects of clinical medicine which truly matter; at the same time it is more rewarding to build up difficult concepts in a stepwise manner. Medium sized handbooks are increasingly becoming popular. The purpose of this book is to acquaint the reader with blood gas/acid-base interpretation. There is a strong thread of pulmonary and renal physiology running through the text; an attempt has been made to simplify concepts and explain the whys and hows in health and disease. The book is almost exclusively set out in the form of flow-diagrams/algorithms. The treatment of the subject in this format, describing processes in logical steps should make it easy for the reader to cover a difficult-and sometimes dreaded- subject rapidly.

Contents:

(1)Gas exchange; 12 sections, numbered 1.01, 1.02, 1.03 and so forth (2)Respiration; 48 sections.(3)The non-invasive monitoring of blood gases; 58 sections. (4)Acids and Bases; 24 sections (5)Buffer systems; 20 sections (6)pH; 20 sections (7)Acidosis and alkalosis; 4 sections (8)Respiratory acidosis; 18 sections (9)Respiratory alkalosis; 6 sections (10)Metabolic acidosis; 60 sections (11)Metabolic alkalosis; 16 sections (12)Diagnostic approach to acid-base disorders: 8 sections (13)Special situations; 6 sections (14)Worked examples; about 20-30 sections