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Applied Biofluid Mechanics
Improve Your Grasp of Fluid Mechanics in the Human Circulatory System_and Develop Better Medical Devices Applied Biofluid Mechanics features a solid grasp of the role of fluid mechanics in the human circulatory system that will help in the research and design of new medical instruments, equipment, and procedures. Filled with 100 detailed illustrations, the book examines cardiovascular anatomy and physiology, pulmonary anatomy and physiology, hematology, histology and function of blood vessels, heart valve mechanics and prosthetic heart valves, stents, pulsatile flow in large arteries, flow and pressure measurement, modeling, and dimensional analysis.
314 pages, Hardcover
First published February 6, 2007
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May 31, 2022
Of course, this is an older book, so the information that needs to updated slightly or the things that would've obviously been edited in the current edition I look past and the information in here is solid. I have a big issue with the editing and formatting still though. Several times abbreviations were included in the text but never used again or the presentation made me wonder why certain parts were included.
Probably the biggest example of this is the chapter on Haematology. The makeup of the blood is interesting to know as are the functions of all the constituents. But when I'm reading a book on applied mechanics in fluids I expect this information to at least to be linked to how it impacts the viscosity of the blood. This, however, doesn't happen in this book. Hematocrit (proportion of haemoglobin in the blood and in erythrocytes) is linked to viscosity about 4 chapters later and only by mention in half a sentence. I've wondered why previously mentioned information was included in the book to this amount of depth if the connection wasn't fully made anyway.
It was either too much or not enough. The middle ground wasn't there and there should've absolutely been a better editor so the order things were put in would've been more logical. Both the order of the chapters, but even more order of information within chapters.
This is a medical book written in 2006 and AIDS is mentioned in its full disease name and that sentence is ended with AIDS virus, which wouldn't be a bad thing if not even half a page later the author wouldn't have used HIV as a term in the text.
All in all, I'm glad that a newer version has been published. I couldn't afford that one though, and for my course, this one did its job perfectly fine, especially since the professor put up an erratum (document with corrected errors, in this case, more or less only in the mathematical components) of this book. Shame the points about errors in the physiology are a bit lacking even for 2006. I've seen more info on some topics in my secondary school books from around that time.
Probably the biggest example of this is the chapter on Haematology. The makeup of the blood is interesting to know as are the functions of all the constituents. But when I'm reading a book on applied mechanics in fluids I expect this information to at least to be linked to how it impacts the viscosity of the blood. This, however, doesn't happen in this book. Hematocrit (proportion of haemoglobin in the blood and in erythrocytes) is linked to viscosity about 4 chapters later and only by mention in half a sentence. I've wondered why previously mentioned information was included in the book to this amount of depth if the connection wasn't fully made anyway.
It was either too much or not enough. The middle ground wasn't there and there should've absolutely been a better editor so the order things were put in would've been more logical. Both the order of the chapters, but even more order of information within chapters.
This is a medical book written in 2006 and AIDS is mentioned in its full disease name and that sentence is ended with AIDS virus, which wouldn't be a bad thing if not even half a page later the author wouldn't have used HIV as a term in the text.
All in all, I'm glad that a newer version has been published. I couldn't afford that one though, and for my course, this one did its job perfectly fine, especially since the professor put up an erratum (document with corrected errors, in this case, more or less only in the mathematical components) of this book. Shame the points about errors in the physiology are a bit lacking even for 2006. I've seen more info on some topics in my secondary school books from around that time.
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