Short Courses for Medical Doctors

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

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

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

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 describes, through examples, how the Fick principle can be applied to physiological systems.

This session builds on the analysis of the relationship between alveolar ventilation and the resulting steady-state arterial partial pressure of carbon dioxide to derive the alveolar gas equation, sometimes called the alveolar air equation.

This session focuses on apnoea and the process of modelling the physiology of apnoea. This uses simple mathematics to answer some fundamental questions about what happens when a patient stops breathing.

This session investigates the principle of preoxygenation with tidal ventilation and how this leads naturally to the mathematical constant e and exponential processes.