Course Objective:
- To provide students with a comprehensive understanding of the structure, function, and regulation of the cardiovascular system in the human body.
Learning Outcome:
After completing this course students should be able to:
- Develop critical thinking skills, analytical reasoning, and the ability to apply knowledge to understand the functioning and regulation of the cardiovascular system in the context of human health and disease.
Course Outline:
- Cardiac muscle and its properties
- Conductive system of heart
- ECG recording and interpretation
- Cardiac cycle
- Local control of blood flow in heart
- Short term control of blood Pressure
- Long term control of blood pressure
- Measurement of Blood pressure
- Systemic circulation and its characteristics and pulse pressure
- Examination of Arterial (Radial) pulse
- Jugular venous pulse examination
- Cardiac output
- Hemodynamic and blood flow
- Coronary circulation
- Pulmonary and cerebral circulation
- Heart sounds and murmurs
- Auscultations of Heart sounds
- Hypertension
- Exercise, muscle and blood flow
- Apex beat
- Examination of Apex beat
- Physiology of shock
- Ischemic heart disease and heart failure
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