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Foreword | ||
About this book | ||
Acknowledgements | ||
1 | The human body and principles of homeostasis | 1 |
The basic needs of the human body and activities of daily living | 11 | |
Levels of organization | 13 | |
Homeostasis: the link with health and ill-health | 15 | |
Homeostasis and ill-health | 22 | |
2 | The surgical approach and endoscopic procedures | 28 |
'Open' surgery: gaining access | 28 | |
Minimal access surgery: endoscopy | 45 | |
3 | Perioperative influences on body fluid homeostasis | 57 |
Body fluids and their distribution | 59 | |
Electrolyte composition of intracellular and extracellular fluids | 65 | |
Perioperative influences on water and electrolyte homeostasis | 73 | |
Infusates and the support of body fluid compartments | 85 | |
4 | Perioperative influences on immunological homeostasis and wound healing | 91 |
Introduction: immunological homeostasis | 91 | |
The specific immune response | 99 | |
An overview of the homeostatic responses involved in wound healing | 111 | |
Details of the stages involved in wound healing | 119 | |
5 | Perioperative influences on cardiovascular homeostasis | 137 |
Introduction: relation of the cardiovascular system to cellular homeostasis | 137 | |
Overview of the anatomy and physiology of the cardiovascular system | 137 | |
Cardiac output, peripheral resistance and blood pressure | 152 | |
Shock: a failure to maintain cardiovascular homeostasis | 163 | |
6 | Perioperative influences on respiratory homeostasis | 177 |
Principles of blood gas homeostasis | 180 | |
The respiratory system in the perioperative period | 193 | |
Ventilation therapy as a homeostatic mechanism | 205 | |
7 | Anaesthesia, stress and surgery | 212 |
Surgical stress I: anxiety | 218 | |
Surgical stress II: general anaesthesia | 219 | |
Surgical stress III: responses to trauma | 226 | |
8 | Pain and pain relief in the perioperative patient | 237 |
Pain perception: an overview | 238 | |
Details of the neurophysiology associated with pain perception | 240 | |
The subjectivity of pain | 248 | |
Perioperative pain management | 251 | |
Pharmacological pain management | 251 | |
Non-pharmacological pain techniques | 261 | |
Index | 271 |
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