Overview
Presents a coherent model addressesing the controversies and future developments in basic science circulatory research and clinical cardiology
Defines the inconsistencies of the commonly accepted pressure-propulsion model of circulation
Provides evidence for a new circulation model with the potential to change the way in which we think about circulation radically?
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Table of contents (21 chapters)
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Embryonic Circulation
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“Dr. Furst has commendably reviewed the origin and historical development of the heart-as-a-pump concept and amassed, as well, a very considerable weight of evidence undermining it and supporting an alternative model of the heart as an organ of impedance. This book will be particularly well received by all those who, like myself, experience a growing lack of confidence in the cardiocentric model of circulation. … I recommend this book to all open-minded cardiovascular physiology enthusiasts without reservation … .” (Anthony M. O’Leary, Anesthesiology, Vol. 124 (4), April, 2016)
“With this monograph Branko Furst succeeded to lay a foundation for a new physiology of the cardiovascular system. His excellent overview and presentation of a wide selection of topics is presented with clarity and depth of knowledge. … this book will serve as a basis for a more encompassing, specifically human cardiovascular physiology arising from the evolutionary-biologic model of circulation.” (Original book review in German language, Hans Christoph Kümmell, Der Merkurstab, Vol. 67 (3), 2014)
Authors and Affiliations
About the author
Branko Furst, MD, FFARCSI, graduated from University of Ljubljana Medical School, Slovenia in 1978 and spent a year practicing family medicine. After completing a residency in anesthesiology at various London (UK) hospitals he worked a short time as an emergency room physician, and then continued his career in anesthesiology at Texas Tech University Health Sciences Center in El Paso, Texas.
The author currently holds the position of Associate Professor in Anesthesiology at Albany Medical College, Albany, NY, where his time is shared between clinical work, resident teaching and research.
Bibliographic Information
Book Title: The Heart and Circulation
Book Subtitle: An Integrative Model
Authors: Branko Furst
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1007/978-1-4471-5277-4
Publisher: Springer London
eBook Packages: Medicine, Medicine (R0)
Copyright Information: Springer-Verlag London 2014
Hardcover ISBN: 978-1-4471-5276-7Published: 22 August 2013
eBook ISBN: 978-1-4471-5277-4Published: 13 August 2013
Edition Number: 1
Number of Pages: XXIX, 226
Topics: Cardiology