Scientific Concepts for Anesthesia Practice

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This course is designed to assist the nurse anesthesia graduate student in applying the basic principles of chemistry and physics in nurse anesthesia practice to include, but not limited to: gas laws, principles of vaporization, use of ventilator equipment, anesthetic agent chemical actions, physics as applied to monitoring and anesthesia equipment, biochemical sciences related to anesthesia practice. A review of medical mathematics is included, as well as, a review of radiation safety (x-ray, MRI) and ultrasound.