Substance Abuse and the Human immunodeficiency virus
TOPICS 1. Introduction 2. Cocaine 3. Amphetamines 4. Ethanol 5. Opioids 6. Marijuana 7. Human Immunodeficiency Virus 8. Summary INTRODUCTION The prevalence of substance abuse in women of reproductive age…
Anesthetic Management of Diabetes During Pregnancy
TOPICS 1. Epidemiology and Etiology of Diabetes 2. Pathophysiology and Risk Factors for Diabetes in Pregnancy 3. Acute Maternal Complications of Diabetes 4. Nonacute and Long-Term Maternal Complications of Diabetes…
Managing Cardiac Comorbidities During Pregnancy
TOPICS 1. Valvular Disease 2. Congenital Heart Disease 3. Cardiomyopathy 4. Pulmonary Hypertension 5. Summary With advances in medical and obstetric care, more and more women with cardiac disease are…
Anesthetic Complications Due to Airway Management/Aspiration
TOPICS 1. Introduction 2. Upper Airway and Respiratory Mechanics 3. Neuraxial Analgesia and Anesthesia as Prophylaxis 4. The Unanticipated Difficult Airway 5. Extubation of a Known Difficult Airway 6. Pulmonary…
Non-neuraxial Labor Analgesia
TOPICS 1. Nonpharmacologic Labor Analgesia 2. Pharmacologic Labor Analgesia Labor is different for every woman, and the methods chosen for pain relief will depend on the obstetric/medical condition, the techniques…
Applied physics
and multiplying both sides by 158 gives: 158 mmHg = 158 × 0.133 = 21 kPa Mechanics Mechanics is the study of how objects around us move or remain at…
Respiratory physiology
Ciliated columnar epitheliumMany goblet cellsMechano- and chemoreceptorsGas conduction2–4Major bronchiRight main bronchus 25° angle of deviation from tracheaLeft main bronchus 45° angle of deviation from trachea5–11Small bronchiLarge increase in total cross-sectional…
Clinical trials and basic statistics
Figure 43.5 Scattergram of numerical data Figure 43.6 Pie chart of categorical data Figure 43.7 Bar chart of categorical data Figure 43.8 Histogram – frequency distribution of continuous numerical data…
