Cardiovascular Physiology
17 modules
Lifetime access
Discover how the heart and blood vessels keep the body in motion.
Overview
By the end of the course, students should be able to:
- Understand: Develop a clear conceptual understanding of cardiovascular physiology.
- Explain: Describe physiological mechanisms logically and systematically.
- Correlate: Connect normal physiology with clinical conditions and investigations.
- Apply: Use physiological knowledge to interpret basic clinical findings and solve clinical scenarios.
- Perform: Demonstrate essential cardiovascular practical and clinical examination skills.
- Excel: Answer examination questions confidently through sound conceptual understanding and clinical application.
The central philosophy of this course is to help students understand concepts, develop clinical insight, and apply their knowledge confidently in academic examinations and future clinical practice.
Key Highlights
Understand the cardiac cycle, heart sounds, and the electrical basis of the heartbeat.
Explore how blood pressure, resistance, and blood flow are regulated.
Connect cardiovascular physiology to exercise, health, and clinical practice.
What you will learn
Explain cardiac function
Describe the heart’s structure, cardiac cycle, electrical conduction, and factors that influence heart rate and cardiac output.
Understand blood flow and pressure
Explain how pressure gradients, vascular resistance, and vessel properties influence circulation and blood pressure.
Explore cardiovascular regulation
Identify how neural, hormonal, and local mechanisms adjust heart and vessel activity to meet the body's needs.
Apply core concepts
Relate cardiovascular responses to exercise, changes in posture, and common physiological and clinical scenarios.
Modules
0. Introduction
1. Describe the functional anatomy of heart including chambers and coronary circulation
2. Describe the properties of cardiac muscle including its morphology, electrical, mechanical and metabolic functions
3. Describe generation and conduction of cardiac impulse along with the conduction pathway (including pacemaker potential).
4. Discuss the physiological events occurring during the cardiac cycle, concurrent pressure volume changes, generation of heart sounds and murmur
5. Describe the physiology of electrocardiogram (E.C.G), the cardiac axis and its applications
6. Discuss physiological variations in ECG waveforms, abnormal waveforms and intervals, arrhythmias, heart blocks and myocardial Infarction
7. Discuss hemodynamics of circulatory system
8. Describe and discuss local and systemic cardiovascular regulatory mechanisms
9. Describe heart rate, factors affecting heart rate, and its regulation
10. Describe cardiac output, factors affecting cardiac output and its regulation.
11. Describe blood pressure, factors affecting blood pressure and its regulation
12. Describe & discuss regional circulation including microcirculation, lymphatic circulation, cerebral, capillary, skin, foetal, pulmonary and splanchnic circulation
13. Describe the patho-physiology of shock, syncope heart failure with physiological basis of its management
14. Record blood pressure & pulse at rest and in different grades of exercise and postures in a volunteer or simulated environment
15. Record and interpret normal ECG in a volunteer or simulated environment
16. Obtain relevant history and conduct General and Clinical examination of the cardiovascular system in a normal volunteer or simulated environment
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