Components: Theory
Credit Hours: 3
Course Schedule: Block System
This course covers the basic function of the heart as a pump. Cellular and functional myocardial properties are going to be described in details. Interactions of the electrical impulse with the myocardium in producing sequential cardiac events are going to be covered as well. Intra-cardiac pressure changes and blood flow dynamics in relation to the cardiac cycle are going to be described in details. Additional aspects will include myocardial metabolism, physiologic response to exercise, systemic vascular control and cardiopulmonary relationship. The course will relate physiologic cardiac events to their respective anatomic structures.