The Fundamentals of Gases and Vapors Course is Now Complete!

Here is the full series of tutorials. I guarantee that you’ll learn something.

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PART 1 – THE BASICS SCIENCES OF GASES AND VAPORS: OXYGEN AND CARBON DIOXIDE

PRIMARY PRINCIPLES OF GASES AND VAPORS

1. Water and Saturated Vapor Pressure

2. The Gas Laws (how pressure and temperature affect gases)

3. Dalton’s Law of Partial Pressures

4. Alveolar Gas – Hypoxemia, A-aO2 Gradient and the PF Ratio

5. Henry’s Law – How Gasses Dissolve in Liquids

CARBON DIOXIDE AND OXYGEN

6. Carbon Dioxide (and Bicarbonate) Solubility

7. Oxygen Solubility, Oxygen Content and HBOT

8. Oxygen Content of Blood (including blood loss and crystalloid resuscitation)

9. The Oxyhemoglobin Dissociation Curve & The Bohr Effect

10. Carbon Dioxide Transport in Blood. CO2 and Ventilation

CARBON DIOXIDE AND ACID BASE

11. Carbon Dioxide and  Acid Base – Part 1- The Basics

12. CO2 Acid Base – Part 2 – Respiratory Acidosis and Alkalosis

13. Acid Base – Part 3 –  Metabolic Acidosis, Respiratory Compensation, Anion Gap, Base Excess

MEASURING OXYGEN

14. Pulse Oximetry – 1 – Oximetry and SpO2

15. Pulse Oximetry – 2 – The Pleth Waveform

16. Blood Gas Machines 1 – PO2, SO2,  Co Oximetry and Methemoglobinemia

MEASURING CARBON DIOXIDE

17. End Tidal CO2 – Principles of CO2 Analysis and Capnometry

18. Sidestream and Microstream CO2 analysis and Capnography

19. Capnographs You MUST Recognize

20. Blood Gas Machines 2 – pH, PCO2 and Sampling (tips and tricks)

21. Blood Gas Machines 3 – Printouts –   Derived Variables

PART 2 – GASES AND VAPORS IN ANESTHESIOLOGY

THE BASICS OF VOLATILE ANESTHETICS AND ANESTHETIC GASES

22. Gases and Vapors – Volatile Anesthetics How We Got To Here

23. Onset of Action of Anesthetics –  Solubility – Blood Gas Partition Co-Efficient

24. Anesthesia Potency – Oil Gas Partition Co-Efficient

25. MAC Part 1 – The History of MAC

26. MAC Part 2   MAC Variants

27. MAC Part 3  –  MAC in Practice

28. Emergence From Anesthesia 1 – Tissue Blood Partition Co-Efficients

29. Emergence From Anesthesia 2 – Other Factors That Impact Emergence

30. Nitrous Oxide

31. Volatile Anaesthetic Agents (Isoflurane, Desflurane, Sevoflurane)

ANESTHETIC MACHINES AND DELIVERY SYSTEMS

32. Vaporizers – Part 1- What you absolutely must know

33. Vaporizers – Part 2 – Digital and High Tec Vaporizers

34. Gas Flow in Anesthesia –   Part 1 – The Tau

35. Gas Flow in Anesthesia – Part 2 – End Tidal Control

36. Carbon Dioxide Removal in Anesthesia (Soda Lime)

37. The Anesthesia Circle System and Anesthesia Ventilators

38. Scavenging and Disposal of Anesthetic Gases and Vapors

39. Measuring Airway Gases – Part 1 – CO2, N2O, Volatile Agents, O2)

40. Measuring Airway Gases – Part 2 –  Flow and Pressure

41. Non Circle Anesthesiology Breathing Systems

42. Manual Resuscitators (Ambubags and equivalent products)