Fluid Physiology -Contents

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Chapter 1 : Introduction
1.1 Properties of Water	1.2 Water Movement across Membranes
Chapter 2 : Fluid Compartments
2.1 Compartments 2.2 Measurement of Compartment Volumes	2.3 Osmolality and Tonicity 2.4 Colloid Osmotic Pressure
Chapter 3 : Water Balance
3.1 Water Turnover 3.2 Insensible Water Loss 3.3 Sweat	3.4 Lymph 3.5 Fluid and the Bowel 3.6 Cerebrospinal Fluid
Chapter 4 : Capillary Fluid Dynamics
4.1 Microcirculation 4.2 Starling's Hypothesis 4.3 The Glomerulus	4.4 Pulmonary Microcirculation 4.5 The Blood-Brain Barrier
Chapter 5 : Control of Water Metabolism
5.1 Overview 5.2 Sensors 5.3 Central Controller 5.4 Effector Mechanisms 5.5 Thirst	5.6 Antidiuretic Hormone 5.7 Coupling of Osmoreceptors and Kidneys 5.8 interaction between Volume & Osmolality 5.9 Other Mechanisms 5.10 Summary of Renal Water Handling
Chapter 6 : Control of Compartment Volumes
6.1 Definition 6.2 Regulation of Cell Volume	6.3 Blood Volume Control
Chapter 7 : Intravenous Fluids
7.1 Classification 7.2 Crystalloids	7.3 Colloids
Chapter 8 : Applied Physiology of Transfused Fluids
8.1 Infusion of Isomolar Fluids 8.2 Infusion of Hypertonic Fluids 8.3 Infusion of Hydrochloric acid	8.4 Infusion of Sodium Bicarbonate Solution 8.5 Infusion of Hypertonic Mannitol Solution
Appendix
Appendix A: Glossary

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