HFB 2113 Study Guide - Dyslipidemia, Hypercholesterolemia, Physical Fitness
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List and describe the cardiac anatomy and physiology. Describe the clinical significance of starling"s law. Define and give examples of positive and negative inotropes and chronotropes. Describe the incidence, morbidity and mortality of cardiovascular disease. Identify and describe the electrical conductivity of the heart. Describe how ecg wave-forms are produced and their relationship to the surface of the heart and mechanical cardiac events. Correlate electrophysiological and mechanical events occurring throughout the cardiac cycle. Identify the ecg changes characteristically seen during evolution of an acute myocardial infarction. Discuss the pathophysiology of cardiac disease and injury. Discuss the pathophysiology of cardiogenic shock, cardiomyopathy, cardiac tamponade, pericarditis, hypertension and other select cardiac pathologies. Identify the primary haemodynamic changes produced in myocardial infarction. Describe the anticipated prehospital clinical presentation and history of the patient with a coronary artery disease and suspected myocardial infarction. Describe the prehospital and hospital assessment of a patient with a coronary artery disease and suspected myocardial infarction.
