Chapter 12
Cardiorespiratory
- 01Vessel branching, veins and vessel walls
- 02Lung lobes, rib neurovascular bundle and pulmonary vessel positions
- 03Aortic arch branches and thoracic venous return
- 04Muscles of inspiration and expiration
- 05Recoil, surfactant and airway resistance
- 06Control of alveolar ventilation
- 07Lung volumes and functional residual capacity
- 08Oxygen diffusion, content and unloading
- 09Hypoxemia, VQ and oxygen response
- 10Pleural pressure gradients and effusion
- 11Pleural fluid, pressure, cardiac output and the source Starling model
- 12Head and neck lymphatics and the thoracic duct
- 13Thoracic lymphatic drainage
- 14Pressure-volume loops and the Frank-Starling principle
- 15ECG in relation to pressure volume loop
- 16Heart-failure compensation and the renin–angiotensin–aldosterone system
- 17Bernoulli, stenosis and VSD
- 18How pimobendan works
- 19Pericardial volume and cardiac tamponade
- 20physiology behind pulsus paradoxus
- 21Aortic body tumours and pericardiectomy
- 22Tracheal anastomosis: tension, age and healing