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Covers essential information on maths, physics and clinical measurement for anaesthesia and critical care.
Table des matières
List of contributors; Preface; Acknowledgements; List of abbreviations; 1. Data analysis and medical statistics Andrew Biffen and David Ashton-Cleary; 2. Basic physics and electronics Emma Foster and Hozefa Ebrahim; 3. Heat, temperature and humidity Hozefa Ebrahim and Sean Chadwick; 4. Behaviour of fluids Hozefa Ebrahim, Sunita Balla and James Rudge; 5. Gas measurement and supply Jonathon Paige; 6. Gas concentration measurement Catriona Frankling; 7. Blood gas analysis David Connor; 8. Vapours and vaporizers Ed Copley; 9. Ventilators and breathing systems Dan Shuttleworth and Nick Dodds; 10. The environment and safety Lauren Weekes; 11. Blood pressure measurement Laura Beard and David Ashton-Cleary; 12. Cardiac output monitoring Hozefa Ebrahim and Alistair Burns; 13. Cardiac support equipment Katie Ramm and Laura May; 14. Ultrasound and doppler David Ashton-Cleary; 15. Atomic structure, radiation, imaging, and LASERs David Ashton-Cleary and Jumana Hussain; 16. Electro-biophysiology Vijay Venkatesh and David Ashton-Cleary; Index.
A propos de l'auteur
Hozefa Ebrahim is an anaesthetist and intensivist at University Hospitals Birmingham, and college tutor for anaesthesia. He has written two previous anaesthetic exam practice books: Practice Single Best Answer Questions for the Final FRCA (Cambridge, 2012) and 1,000 Practice MTF MCQs for the Primary and Final FRCA (Cambridge, 2019). He is passionate about teaching postgraduate anaesthesia and ICM. This book is the culmination of many years of teaching physics.David Ashton-Cleary is a consultant in Critical Care and Anaesthesia at the Royal Cornwall Hospitals NHS Trust. He has a particular interest in medical education, and runs a number of specialist national training courses devoted to ultrasound in critical care, exam preparation and transfer medicine. He is also the author of two previous books: Key Clinical Topics in Anaesthesia (2014) and Recent Advances in Critical Care (2016).
Résumé
This book covers the entire syllabus of the FRCA and FFICM examinations with respect to physics, mathematics and clinical measurement. A one-stop shop that allows trainees to learn all the material they need, presented in a simple yet comprehensive manner.
