Applied Bioelectricity: From Electrical Stimulation to Electropathology

✍ Scribed by J. Patrick Reilly (auth.)

• Publisher: Springer-Verlag New York
• Year: 1998
• Tongue: English
• Leaves: 580
• Edition: 1
• Category: Library

✦ Synopsis

Electric currents and electromagnetic fields have been applied to biological systems, particularly humans, with both therapeutic and pathological results. Applied Bioelectricity discusses biological responses to electric currents and electromagnetic fields, including medical applications and shock hazards. The book covers fundamental physical and engineering principles of responses to short-term electrical exposure and emphasizes human reactions, although animal responses to electricity are considered as well. The treatment covers reactions from the just-detectable to the clearly detrimental. An important new chapter discusses standards for human exposure to electromagnetic fields and electric current and demonstrates how these standards have been developed based on the principles treated in earlier chapters. J. Patrick Reilly is a member of the principal staff of the Johns Hopkins University Applied Physics Laboratory and is President of Metatec Associates.

✦ Table of Contents

Front Matter....Pages i-xix
Introduction....Pages 1-11
Impedance and Current Distribution....Pages 12-72
Electrical Principles of Nerve and Muscle Function....Pages 73-104
Excitation Models....Pages 105-147
Electrical Properties of the Heart....Pages 148-193
Cardiac Sensitivity to Electrical Stimulation....Pages 194-239
Sensory Responses to Electrical Stimulation....Pages 240-298
Skeletal Muscle Response to Electrical Stimulation....Pages 299-340
Stimulation via Electric and Magnetic Fields....Pages 341-411
High-Voltage and High-Current Injuries....Pages 412-453
Standards and Rationale....Pages 454-501
Back Matter....Pages 502-563

✦ Subjects

Neurosciences;Biophysics and Biological Physics;Biomedical Engineering;Human Physiology;Animal Physiology