Today I cast a critical eye over a recent paper from Professor Tatara’s team in Hyogo, Japan. DOI: 10.1111/aas.13548. It is a fine example of the sort of physiology experiment that can be performed in clinical practice to advance our understanding of acute body water distribution changes. The study population
Author: admin
after more than a quarter of a century of intensive care medicine consultancy in one of the UK's largest teaching hospitals Dr Woodcock is on a mission to ensure the steady state Starling principle is known and understood by every student and every practitioner.
Fluid Physiology in 2020; the first month!
I redoubled efforts to have fluid physiology recognised as a subspecialty of intensive/ critical care medicine and anaesthesia/ anesthesiology with Podcasts on TopMedTalk, and was rewarded with an Endorsement from UCL’s Monty Mythen that reading the book could be “Career-changing”. Korbin Haycock, EM Physician at Loma Linda in California, called
2020 – the year of the fluid physiologist?
Every critical care team needs its own super specialists and I have long believed that fluid physiology should be one of those super specialisms. I was therefore delighted to see this short if cryptic comment from the Smiths Medical Professor of Anaesthesia and Critical Care at University College London. Now,
A Fluid Physiology self test.
Can you explain these remarkable observations about the circulation of blood? If not, it’s time to order your copy of the book just in time for New Year reading…. Become a fluid physiologist.
Physiology Matters.
Armand Girbes, Professor in Intensive Care Medicine and Clinical Pharmacologist, chairs the Division of Scientific Affairs at the European Society of Intensive Care Medicine (ESICM), so when he complains about the direction of research in his speciality he deserves our attention. Last year he gave an Invited Lecture entitled Fifteen
Role of vascular mechanics in circulatory dynamics.
Here is a paper that has to go in the next edition of Fluid Physiology: Extreme bradycardia and tachycardia in the world’s largest animal “The biomechanical properties and dimensions of the aortic wall in fin whales (Balaenoptera physalus) have led to the hypothesis that, at heart rates ≤10 beats min−1 (bpm)
The pointlessness of starch to boost oxygen delivery in surgical patients…
Reiterer C, Kabon B, Zotti O, Obradovic M, Kurz A, Fleischmann E. Effect of goal-directed crystalloid- versus colloid-based fluid strategy on tissue oxygen tension: a randomised controlled trial. Br J Anaesth. 2019;123:768-776. Yet another HES vs LR for GDT in major surgery RCT. Regular readers will understand that modern Starling
Order Now for December 1st release date
Q. Who tied a beating-heart dog preparation to the railings between a courtyard of the Sorbonne and the pavement of a Parisian public thorough-fare? Q. Why was The Brown Dog immortalised with a statue in London? Q. Can you describe the several forms of the endothelial barrier and the major
Haemoglobin fall correlates poorly with the volume of intravasation.
Comparing volumetric and biochemical assessment of intravasation caused by hysteroscopic surgery Oscar HaudeLucilla E. OverdijkPaul J.M. van KesterenBart F. GeertsBart M.P. Rademaker Only a small retrospective observational study from a single centre, but the point is that the researchers were expecting to confirm that the volume of intravasation during hysteroscopic