Fluid physiology : a handbook for anaesthesia and critical care practice /

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Author / Creator:Woodcock, Thomas, author.
Imprint:Newcastle-upon-Tyne : Cambridge Scholars Publisher, 2019.
©2019
Description:1 online resource (xvii, 264 pages) : illustrations
Language:English
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Format: E-Resource Book
URL for this record:http://pi.lib.uchicago.edu/1001/cat/bib/13359814
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ISBN:9781527542020
1527542025
9781527540316
1527540316
Notes:Includes bibliographical references
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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 ...
Other form:Print version: Woodcock, Thomas. Fluid physiology. Newcastle upon Tyne : Cambridge Scholars Publishing, 2019 1527540316