Table of Contents

1. Pressure and Its Measurement 2. Atmospheric and Alveolar Pressures 3. Hydrostatic Pressure 4. Doctor Dolittle Visits a Sitting Case 5. In the Loop--Left Ventricular Pressures 6. What Goes Around Comes Around--Venous Return 7. Pushmi-Pullyu and the Right Atrium 8. Pressure and Flow--Chickens and Eggs 9. Down But Not Out--Circulatory Arrest Pressures 10. Starling's Riddle of the Broken Heart 11. Oxygen and the Gradients of Life 12 The Two Doctors Fick 13 A Breath of Fresh Air--Ventilation 14 Pulmonary Function Tests 15 Where Breath Meets Blood--Lung Perfusion 16 Bird Brains and Bird Breath 17 Diffusion Limitation--Montana Style 18 Man, Machine, and Homeostasis 19 Putting It All Together--Manned Space Flight

About the Author

Consultant, Division of Neuroanesthesia, and Department of Physiology and Biomedical Engineering; and Assistant Professor of Anesthesiology and of Physiology, College of Medicine, Mayo Clinic, USA.