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Gas Bubble Dynamics in the Human Body

Book2018

Authors:

Saul Goldman, J. Manuel Solano-Altamirano and Kenneth M. Ledez

Gas Bubble Dynamics in the Human Body

Book2018

 

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Saul Goldman, J. Manuel Solano-Altamirano and Kenneth M. Ledez

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    1 - Bubbles in the body: The not so good, the bad, and the ugly

    Pages 1-48

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    2 - Driving force of gas-bubble growth and dissolution

    Pages 49-62

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    3 - Rates of gas-bubble growth and dissolution in simple liquids

    Pages 63-81

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    4 - Estimating the radii and lifetimes of small gas bubbles suspended in simple liquids

    Pages 83-103

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    5 - AGEs in scuba diving and in DCS-like problems in breath-hold diving

    Pages 105-133

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    6 - Gas bubbles in soft tissue-like solids

    Pages 135-160

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    7 - The evils that bubbles do…

    Pages 161-185

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    8 - Compartmental decompression models and DCS risk estimation

    Pages 187-236

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    9 - Treating the evils that bubbles do

    Pages 237-249

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    10 - Gas-bubble dynamics in the treatment of gas-bubble disease: Merging medicine and math

    Pages 251-283

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    Appendix: Solutions to problems

    Pages 285-292

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    Index

    Pages 293-295

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Gas Bubble Dynamics in the Human Body provides a broad range of professionals, from physicians working in a clinic, hospital or hyperbaric facility, to physical scientists trying to understand and predict the dynamics of gas bubble behavior in the body, with an interdisciplinary perspective on gas-bubble disease. Both iatrogenic and decompression-induced gas bubbles are considered. The basic medical and physiological aspects are described first, in plain language, with numerous illustrations that facilitate an intuitive grasp of the basic underlying medicine and physiology. Current issues in the field, particularly microbubbles and microparticles, and their possible role in gas-bubble disease are included. The physical and mathematical material is given at several levels of sophistication, with the "hard-core" math separated out in sections labelled "For the Math Mavens", so that the basic concepts can be grasped at a descriptive level. The field is large and multi-disciplinary, so that some of the discussion that is at a greater depth is given separately in sections labelled "In Greater Detail". Skipping these sections for whatever reason, shouldn’t materially hamper acquiring an overall appreciation of the field.

Gas Bubble Dynamics in the Human Body provides a broad range of professionals, from physicians working in a clinic, hospital or hyperbaric facility, to physical scientists trying to understand and predict the dynamics of gas bubble behavior in the body, with an interdisciplinary perspective on gas-bubble disease. Both iatrogenic and decompression-induced gas bubbles are considered. The basic medical and physiological aspects are described first, in plain language, with numerous illustrations that facilitate an intuitive grasp of the basic underlying medicine and physiology. Current issues in the field, particularly microbubbles and microparticles, and their possible role in gas-bubble disease are included. The physical and mathematical material is given at several levels of sophistication, with the "hard-core" math separated out in sections labelled "For the Math Mavens", so that the basic concepts can be grasped at a descriptive level. The field is large and multi-disciplinary, so that some of the discussion that is at a greater depth is given separately in sections labelled "In Greater Detail". Skipping these sections for whatever reason, shouldn’t materially hamper acquiring an overall appreciation of the field.

Key Features

  • Demonstrates how physical and mathematical tools help to solve underlying problems across physiology and medicine
  • Helps researchers extend their competence and flexibility to the point that they can personally contribute to the field of hyperbaric medicine and physiology, or to other related biological problems that may interest them
  • Provides clinicians with explicit examples of how mathematical modelling can be integrated into clinical treatment and decision-making
  • Demonstrates how physical and mathematical tools help to solve underlying problems across physiology and medicine
  • Helps researchers extend their competence and flexibility to the point that they can personally contribute to the field of hyperbaric medicine and physiology, or to other related biological problems that may interest them
  • Provides clinicians with explicit examples of how mathematical modelling can be integrated into clinical treatment and decision-making

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ISBN

978-0-12-810519-1

Language

English

Published

2018

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Copyright © 2018 Elsevier Inc. All rights reserved.

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Academic Press

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Authors

Saul Goldman

University of Guelph, Department of Chemistry, the Guelph-Waterloo Centre for Graduate Work in Chemistry and the Guelph-Waterloo Physics Institute, Guelph, ON, Canada

J. Manuel Solano-Altamirano

Benemérita Universidad Autónoma de Puebla, Facultad de Ciencias Químicas, Puebla, Pue., México

Kenneth M. Ledez

Memorial University, Faculty of Medicine, Health Sciences Centre, St. Johns NL, Canada