Pocket Tutor: Understanding ABGs and Lung Function Tests  (Paperback)

Practical, handy guide to arterial blood gases and lung function tests, designed for medical students and foundation doctors ?on the go? and highly affordable for those rotating through modular courses or working on attachment. Highly affordable price and convenient pocket size format ? fits in back pocket! All hospital doctors deal with ABGs (arterial blood gases) but knowledge is commonly assumed and students lack confidence interpreting them. Logical, sequential content: relevant basic science, understanding normal results and the building blocks of abnormal results, then clinical disorders. Clinical disorders illustrated by representative test results and brief accompanying text that clearly identifies the defining feature of the result (in other words, what is it that makes this diabetic ketoacidosis?).

Table Of contents
Chapter 1 First principles 1.1 Anatomy
1.2 Physiology

Chapter 2 Understanding the tests
2.1 Arterial blood gases
2.2 Lung function tests

Chapter 3 Recognising abnormal results
3.1 Arterial blood gases
3.2 Lung function testing abnormalities

Chapter 4 Lung diseases
4.1 Airway disease
4.2 Parenchymal disease
4.3 Pulmonary vascular disease
4.4 Pleural disease

Chapter 5 Circulatory dysfunction
5.1 Changes in lung volume
5.2 Changes in ventilation
5.3 Changes in perfusion
5.4 Changes in diffusion
5.5 Cardiac diseases

Chapter 6 Neuromuscular disorders
6.1 Respiratory tests in management of neuromuscular disorders
6.2 Motor neuron disease
6.3 Myasthenia gravis
6.4 Guillain?Barr? syndrome
6.5 Diaphragm palsy
6.6 Myopathies
6.7 Vocal fold paralysis
6.8 Trauma and chest wall deformities
6.9 Neuroactive drugs
6.10 Cerebrovascular accidents

Chapter 7 Metabolic, endocrine and renal dysfunction
7.1 Diabetic ketoacidosis
7.2 Conn?s syndrome
7.3 Lactic acidosis
7.4 Renal failure

Chapter 8 ABGs in other clinical situations
8.1 Anxiety, pain and hyperventilation
8.2 Monitoring ABGs in ventilated and anaesthetised patients
8.3 Vomiting and nasogastric suction
8.4 Diarrhoea
8.5 Starvation
8.6 Diuretics