Gas Bubble Dynamics in the Human Body

Equips researchers working within hyperbaric medicine with modern physical and mathematical methods to optimize their findings and deliver new therapies

Saul Goldman (Author), Manuel Solano-Altamirano (Author), Kenneth Ledez (Author)

9780128105191

Paperback, published 18 September 2017

320 pages
22.9 x 15.1 x 2.1 cm, 0.5 kg

Approx.296 pages

1. Bubbles in the body: The not so good, the bad and the ugly2. Driving force for gas bubble growth and dissolution3. Rates of gas bubble growth and dissolution in simple liquids4. Estimating the radii and lifetimes of small gas bubbles suspended in simple liquids5. AGEs in scuba diving and in DCS-like problems in breath-hold diving6. Gas bubbles in soft tissue-like solids7. The evils that bubbles do8. Compartmental decompression models and DCS risk estimation9. Treating teh evils that bubbles do10. Merging medicine and Mmath: Gas bubble dynamics in the treatment of gas-bubble disease

Subject Areas: Biochemistry [PSB], Clinical & internal medicine [MJ]