Cardiorespiratory Practicals

Synopsis: A series of fully evaluated problem-oriented CAL materials to support laboratory practicals on human subjects.
Series: Practical and Tutorial Courseware for the Life Sciences, Tltp Project
Language: English
Country: Great Britain
Medium: Multimedia; Computer program. Floppy disk. PC Windows or Apple Macintosh (separate versions).
Year of production: 1995
Availability: Sale
Notes: Available to UK higher education institutions.
Uses: 1st- and 2nd-year medicine and paramedical courses.
Subjects: Medical sciences
Keywords: computer-assisted learning; medical education; physiology - human; Teaching & Learning Technology Programme

Writer: Gavin Donaldson; Ian Hughes; Malcolm George; Nicholas Part; Robert Wong; Stan Head

Title: Lung volumes
Synopsis: 1: Basic concepts of human lung volumes and capacities, as measured with spirometers and vitalographs.
Title: Oxygen consumption at rest and during exercise
Synopsis: 2: How oxygen consumption increases linearly with exercise and how the metabolic rate is derived from students' data.
Title: Electrocardiogram (ECG/EKG)
Synopsis: 3: Recording an ECG and analysing normal and abnormal traces in terms of the electrophysiology of the heart.
Title: Heart sounds
Synopsis: 4: Recording heart sounds and relating the data to valve action in the cardiac cycle.
Title: Peripheral blood flow (plethysmography)
Synopsis: 5: Measuring blood flow using a simple non-invasive technique, and are shown that peripheral blood flow varies under the influence of local and central regulatory factors.

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