Critical Care Applied Physiology – Pressure and Flow

Alan Morris, MD, Professor of Medicine from University of Utah and Intermountain Medical Center, teaches the University of Utah fellows critical care physiology in a summer lecture series.  These lectures are an excellent foundation for the physiologic principles of critical care medicine.

• Pressure: Absolute and Gauge Pressure

• Pressure: Measurement

• Pressure: Fluid Energy and Pumps

• Pressure: Chest Drainage Systems

• Pascal’s Principle and the Ideal Gas Law

• Static Recoil Pressure

• Static Relaxation pressure and volume curves of the respiratory system

• Dynamic Pressure

• Ohm’s Law

• Expiratory Flow Limitation and Starling Resistors

• Determinants of Cardiac Output