Simulation and Teaching in Resuscitation and Trauma Management
(1) Flinders University of South Australia School of Medicine, Adelaide, SA, Australia Resuscitation “Hence we shall find in the progress of this inquiry, that inflation of the lungs is…
Early Examples of Simulation in Training and Healthcare
(1) Flinders University of South Australia School of Medicine, Adelaide, SA, Australia “The art is long, life is short; the crisis fleeting; experience perilous, and decision difficult”. Hippocrates Everyone…
Introduction
(1) Flinders University of South Australia School of Medicine, Adelaide, SA, Australia The recorded history of simulation in health professional education stretches over 1500 years and around the world…
Metabolism: Energy, Heat, Work, and Power of the Body
Fig. 6.1 Energy flow into and from the body Metabolic processes can be divided into catabolic and anabolic reactions. In catabolic reactions complex molecules are broken into simple ones, for…
Cardiovascular System
Fig. 8.1 Circulatory system Pulmonary circulation system Systemic circulation system BloodBlood circulation system, and labeled within the heart: the a right atrium, b right ventricle, c left atrium, d left…
Mechanical Properties of the Body
Fig. 4.1 General stress—strain relationship. For more detail, see Fig. 4.15 Whereas elastic behavior is independent of history and enables total recovery of stored energy, this is not so in the…
Light, Eyes and Vision
Fig. 11.1 Structure of the eye: a sagittal section, b three-dimensional perspective (From [59]) The adult cornea is 0.52 mm thick in the center and 0.65 mm thick in the periphery, and…
Sound, Speech, and Hearing
1–10 MHz), way above our hearing range (20–20 kHz), that provides images with the very useful spatial resolution of 1 mm [51, 72]. Waves are sent to an object and reflected , with…
Electrical and Magnetic Properties
Bioelectric signal Typical amplitude Electrocardiogram (EKG/ECG, heart) 1 mV Electroencephalogram (EEG, brain waves) 10–100 V Electromyogram (EMG, muscle) 300 V Transmembrane potential 100 mV Electro-oculogram (EOG, eye) 500 V Using data from [3, 16 ]…
