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…
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…
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…
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…
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…
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…
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…
Figure 14.1 Cardiac muscle structure A further difference from skeletal muscle lies in the electrical conductive characteristics of the cardiac muscle fibres, which offer a low resistance to the propagation…
Figure 46.1 Vacuum-insulated evaporator Nitrous oxide supply Nitrous oxide is supplied from a central bank of gas cylinders, which contain a mixture of liquid and gas (critical temperature of nitrous…
