Cardiovascular physiology a clinical approach

• Main Authors: Courneya, Carol Ann Margaret 1957- (Author), Parker, Michael J. (Author)
• Other Authors: Schwawrtzstein, Richard M. (Editor)
• Format: Book
• Language: English
• Published: Philadelphia Wolters Kluwer/Lippincott Williams & Wilkins Health 2011
• Series: The integrated physiology series
• Subjects: Cardiovascular Physiological Phenomena
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"Cardiovascular Physiology: A Clinical Approach" covers the essentials of cardiovascular physiology for medical students, residents, nurses, and allied health professionals. This book is the second in "The Integrated Physiology Series", a sequence of monographs that review physio...

Table of Contents:

• Getting started : the approach to cardiovascular physiology
• Form and function : the physiological implications of the anatomy of the cardiovascular system
• Excitation contraction (EC) coupling : calcium, the EC powerhouse
• The cardiac cycle : bringing the chambers together
• Electrical function : setting the rhythm
• Electrocardiogram : keeping the beat
• Cardiac output (starling curves) : getting it started
• Blood vessels : special delivery
• Control of blood pressure : keeping us standing
• Integration chapter : pregnancy, two hearts beating as one.