Cracking the MRCS viva : a revision guide /: a revision guide. (2007)

• Record Type: Book
• Further Information: Note: Iain Au-Yong [and others].
• Other Names: Au-Yong, Iain
• Contents: Acid Base Balance ; Action potential ; Actions of steroids ; Antiemetics ; ARDS ; Blood brain barrier ; Brainstem death ; Burns ; Control of respiration ; Calcium metabolism ; Cardiac action potential (and physiology of the transplanted heart) ; Cardiac arrest and resuscitation ; Cardiac cycle ; Cerebrospinal fluid – Functions and movements ; Compartment syndrome ; Control of blood pressure ; Control of micturition ; Criteria for admission to ITU ; CVP waveform and CVP lines ; Dead space ; Differences between ITU and HDU ; Drugs that affect potassium levels ; Drugs which affect the pupil ; Drugs which affect cardiac output ; Drugs affecting the colon ; Effects of adrenaline ; Effects of dopamine ; Effects of histamine ; Fat metabolism ; Fluid balance ; Functions of the kidney ; Functions of the liver ; Functions of the pancreas ; Functions of the small bowel ; Functions of the stomach ; GI physiology ; Glucose homeostasis ; Haemoglobin dissociation curve, molecular properties ; Harmful effects of acidosis ; Head Injury ; How is pain mediated? ; Hypoxia ; Inotropes ; Iron metabolism ; Jaundice ; Life of a red blood cell ; Loop of Henle ; Management of oliguria ; Mechanical Ventilation ; Metabolic response to surgery ; Morphine ; Neuromuscular junction ; Nutrition ; Oxygen delivery to the tissues ; Pathophysiology of pneumothorax ; Physiology of altitude and diving ; Physiology of muscle ; Portal hypertension ; Potassium Homeostasis ; Renal tubular physiology and renal failure. Diuretics (particularly osmotic) ; Reperfusion injury ; Respiratory failure ; Respiratory function tests ; Scoring in ITU ; Shock (including detailed discussion of hypovolaemia) ; Starling forces in the capillaries, Oedema ; Starling’s law of the heart and relationships between CO/SV/HR and TPR ; The Cell membrane ; Thermoregulation ; Upper GI bleeding
• Publisher Details: London : Hodder Arnold
• Publication Date: 2007
• Extent: 1 online resource (xxii, 550 pages), illustrations
• Subjects: 617/.910076; Surgery, Operative -- Examinations, questions, etc; MEDICAL -- Prosthesis; MEDICAL -- Surgery -- General; Surgery, Operative; Electronic books; Examinations
• Languages: English
• ISBNs: 9781444113587; 1444113585
• Notes: Note: Print version record.
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