Gas Bubble Dynamics in the Human Body

Gas Bubble Dynamics in the Human Body equips researchers working within hyperbaric medicine with modern physical and mathematical methods to optimize their findings and deliver new therapies. The methods presented point to a deeper understanding, more accurate predictions, and improved treatment modalities by injecting modern applied math (particularly differential equations) and physical chemistry (particularly diffusion kinetics and thermodynamics) into the field. By combining these disciplines with existing problems in the field, this work adds significantly to applied, theoretical and interpretive components. Demonstrates how physical and mathematical tools help to solve underlying problems across physiology and medicineHelps researchers extend their competence and flexibility to the point that they can personally contribute to the field of hyperbaric medicine and physiologyProvides clinicians with the assurance of calibration with reproducible and reliable data and mathematical coherence and robustness INDICE: 1. Bubbles in the body: the good, the bad and the ugly 2. Driving force for gas bubble growth and dissolution 3. Rates of gas bubble growth and dissolution in simple liquids 4. Estimating the radii and lifetimes of small gas bubbles suspended in simple liquids 5. AGEs in scuba diving and in DCS - like problems in breath-hold diving 6. Gas bubbles in soft tissue-like solids 7. The evils that bubbles do 8. Compartmental decompression models and DCS risk estimation 9. Practical techniques for minimizing bubble growth 10. Shrinking, mitigating and treating the effects of bubbles

• ISBN: 978-0-12-810519-1
• Editorial: Academic Press
• Encuadernacion: Rústica
• Páginas: 400
• Fecha Publicación: 01/10/2017
• Nº Volúmenes: 1
• Idioma: Inglés