Just Enough Physiology takes you on a guided tour of cardiopulmonary physiology. You will discover how the heart, lungs, and circulation work in extreme environments so that you are better equipped to understand how they function - or malfunction - at the bedside, in the operating room, or in the intensive care unit. Just Enough Physiology will prepare all students and physicians-in-training for Board Exams while also teaching you how to think like a physiologist. Click on Co

In 1628 William Harvey demonstrated that the cardiovascular system is a closed loop. In the same century Blaise Pascal described the effects of gravity on fluids. It's been almost 400 years since these pioneering scientists laid the foundation for an understanding of how our heart and blood vessels work in the real world, under normal conditions at the surface of the Earth. As we have ventured into space and accelerated our pilots and astronauts into new and more dangerous re

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It's been 400 years. Maybe it's time to take Harvey and his circle seriously. Download and read the Editorial by clicking on the 1st page...

A Lightning Fast Primer for Those at the Front Lines of Ventilation and Oxygenation.

Anesthesiologists protect their patients from terror, pain, bleeding, heart attacks and asphyxia. The world changed on Oct 16, 1846.

What You Wish You Remembered From Medical School: A 30 Minute Refresher on the Fundamentals of Respiratory Physiology.