Branko Furst, MD, FFARCSI is a graduate of the University of Ljubljana School of Medicine, Slovenia and completed residency in anesthesiology at the Queen Alexandra Hospital in Portsmouth and at the Middlesex Hospitals in London, UK. In 1987 he joined the faculty at the Department of Anesthesiology at Texas Tech University Medical School in El Paso, TX. Currently he is Professor of Anesthesiology at Albany Medical College, Albany, NY and divides his time between clinical practice, research, and resident teaching. He has lectured on the integrative model of circulation nationally and internationally.

Presents a coherent model addressing 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?

Proposes an integrative model of circulation

Covers new developments in microcirculatory research

Possesses new chapters covering the arterial pulse and circulation in the upright posture

Embryonic Circulation.- The Onset of Circulation.- Hemodynamics of the Early Embryo.- Flow Patterns in the Early Embryo Circulation.- Is There a Circulation Without a Heart.- The Embryo Heart Is Not a Peristaltic Pump.- Flow Perturbation Experiments.- Heart Rate Perturbations.- The Heart as Generator of Pressure.- Ventriculo-Vascular Interaction.- A Brief Comparative Phylogeny.-Evolutionary Aspect of the Rhythmic System.- Functional Morphology of the Heart.- Regulation of Cardiac Output.- Circulatory and Respiratory Functions of the Blood.- Models of the Heart.- Cardiovascular Response During Exercise.- Hemodynamic Effects of Aortic Occlusion.- Increased Pulmonary Flows.- Single-Ventricle Physiology.- Blood as an Organ.- Microcirculation.- Arterial Pulse.- Circulation in Upright Posture.- Integrative Model of Circulation.