Short Courses for Medical Doctors

This session provides an overview of hydrostatics, looking particularly at the forces and pressures that arise in fluid-filled containers, and the factors that influence them. It concludes with an overview of some practical and medical applications of t

This session explores the factors that affect heat loss in the theatre environment and ways in which to reduce those losses.

This session examines heat, temperature and the transfer of heat, as well as the importance of these concepts to the anaesthetist.

This session covers the key points regarding the principles of osmosis and examines the colligative properties of osmotic pressure, paying particular attention to the osmotic qualities of common intravenous fluids.

This session explains the nature of solvents, solutes and solutions. It compares and contrasts them with other types of mixture such as suspensions and colloids.

This session covers the concept of humidity and humidification, and discusses the principles of the measurement of humidity.

This session covers the concepts of vapours and saturated vapour pressure, and explains the principles of latent heat, adiabatic change and isothermal change.

This session covers the concepts of critical temperature and pressure, pseudocritical temperature, the concept of liquefaction and the principles of gas storage.

This session covers density and viscosity and the implications of these on the measurement of flow, as well as the physical properties of the gases commonly used in clinical practice.

Anaesthetists come across gases in solution in everyday practice. This session looks at some physical principles behind solubility and their clinical applications.