| Description |
1 online resource (xvii, 264 pages) : illustrations |
| Physical Medium |
polychrome |
| Description |
text file |
| Summary |
This book is essential reading for medical or veterinary practitioners who need to understand the new fluid physiology and to apply it to the safe care of patients. The Starling principle is one of medicine's most important concepts and originates from Ernest Starling's laboratory research 120 years ago. However, inappropriate fluid therapy is now recognised as harming and even killing thousands of patients every year. In 2004, a landmark study was published which confirmed the hypotheses put forward by Sheldon Weinbaum and Charles Michel, among other physiologists, that, in most tissues and ... |
| Bibliography |
Includes bibliographical references. |
| Contents |
Starling's fluid physiology: historic perspective -- Starling's fluid physiology in clinical practice: historic perspective -- Biological solutions -- Endothelium -- Interstitium and lymphatic systems -- Systemic circulation: the peripheral vascular loops -- Pulmonary circulation -- Plasma volume -- Albumin and other circulating proteins -- A haemodynamic paradigm -- An improved paradigm of fluid physiology and therapy |
| Local Note |
eBooks on EBSCOhost EBSCO eBook Subscription Academic Collection - North America |
| Subject |
Fluid therapy.
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Fluid therapy. |
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Colloids -- Therapeutic use.
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Colloids -- Therapeutic use. |
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Colloids. |
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Plasma exchange (Therapeutics)
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Physiology. |
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Intensive care medicine. |
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Plasma exchange (Therapeutics) |
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Anaesthetics. |
| Genre/Form |
Electronic books.
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| Other Form: |
Print version: Woodcock, Thomas. Fluid physiology. Newcastle upon Tyne : Cambridge Scholars Publishing, 2019 1527540316 (OCoLC)1122462816 |
| ISBN |
9781527542020 (electronic book) |
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1527542025 (electronic book) |
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9781527540316 (hardcover) |
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1527540316 (hardcover) |
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