Welcome to the Cardiovascular Physiology and Monitoring Sessions. Hopefully, this will be one of the most fun and enjoyable learning experiences for everyone involved. This curriculum outline provides the Cardiovascular Physiology experience for "all teachers and students" as well as the "inquiry experience" for the small groups.

Audience: HSTA Teachers and Students

Faculty: Priscah Mujuru Dr.PH.

Objectives: The goals of the summer learning is to examine how lifestyle affects health and wellness; expose students to experiential learning; and introduce students to collaboration by sharing their knowledge at the end of the summer program.  HSTA faculty, graduate students and health professionals offer guidance and mentoring to HSTA students and their teachers throughout the hands-on learning experience of information acquisition.  This past year, students and teachers became familiar with the anatomy and physiology of the heart, the Iworx software and exercise bike to monitor the effect of stressful environmental situations on the heart.

Brief Description of Content :  Cardiovascular disease represents a significant health concern in both the young and adult populations of West Virginia. Participants will make inquiry into the factors that may influence an individual’s likelihood of developing heart disease.  A variety of factors influence the initiation and progression of disease ranging from genetic predisposition to strong environmental influence. The main theme of campus community science activities will be Healthy Lifestyles. Students and teachers will be exposed to hands-on experimental science projects with key concepts on cardiovascular disease monitoring.

Materials and Handouts Needed :   Handouts of procedures and background material will be provided to the teachers and students upon arrival to the lab.

Procedures/Activities : Handouts will be provided to the teachers and students upon arrival to the lab

Biomedical Itinerary: Cardiovascular Physiology

A. Introductions and objectives for course (5-10 minutes) at the HSC

• Introduction to the physiology of the cardiovascular system and diseases
• Discuss general lab safety: 
  • No food or beverages
  • Gloves will be worn for specific procedures throughout the day as indicated
  • No Jewelry should be worn when in the Lab

B. Human Physiology Monitoring Lab.

a. Introduce Iworx software

• Introduce students to electrodes and where to apply the electrodes
• Discuss how to interpret an EKG reading
• Hand out and explain the use of pedometers
• Digitally monitor B/P

b. Start performing cardiovascular monitoring experiments using Iworx.

• Perform Exercise 1(ECG in a resting volunteer) with all students.

Monday (10:00-End of the day)

10:00AM Student Small Groups arrive

• Students introduce themselves
• Identify students’ career interests and goals
• Introduce the cardiovascular monitoring and diagnostic equipment- IWORX, B/P Monitors, Pedometers

11:00: Cardiovascular and physiology lecture

• Circulation and Gas Exchange (Ekta Choudhary)

1:15-4:30: Introduction to ECG and conducting analysis

• Exercise 2, Experiment 2: ECG in a Resting Volunteer Perform Exercise 2: recording and analyzing an EKG reading from an active volunteer riding an exercise bike

Tuesday (8:30-11:45)

8:30-11:45: Conducting ECG Experiment 3

• Exercise 2, Experiment 3: Bike exercise and heart rate
• Continue performing Exercise 2: recording and analyzing an EKG reading from an active volunteer riding an exercise bike for all students

 

Afternoon:

Cadaver Lab (All day for all students)

Several stations will be set up, displaying various organs or parts of the body.

Web Authoring

Wednesday

All day:

8:30-11:45: Experiment 3: Heat and Cold on heart rate

Discussion with Dr. Mujuru on the effects of peripheral circulation. Continue performing experiments regarding an electrocardiogram and peripheral circulation addressing. Perform experiments regarding an electrocardiogram and peripheral circulation addressing.

• The Effects of cold on volume pulse
• The Effects of heat on volume pulse
• The effects of the volume pulse after a hand exercise

 

1:15-4:30: Discuss Case Study

Discuss coronary artery disease (CAD) and effects

Discuss PQRST waves

 

A. Introduce Case Study: Students will do a detailed research on a given case study topic regarding the cause of the disease, signs and symptoms, diagnosis, treatment, and prognosis.

B. Discussion with Dr. Mujuru on the cause of Heart disease, signs and symptoms, diagnosis, treatment, and prognosis.

C. Students will be encouraged to review literature on physiological effects of the cardiovascular system and the methods of monitoring

Thursday

8:30- 11:45: Web research and information gathering on WV resources on Heart Disease. Final preparation for Friday presentations.

A. Return to laboratory to discuss the relationship between physiological effects of the cardiovascular system and monitoring, the case studies, and the current state-of-the art methods of disease monitoring from their literature review.

B. Discuss results obtained;

• What other diseases might this technique be applied to for a better understanding of the origin of the illness
• Incidence of obesity among youth adults and West Virginia
• Development of strategies to reduce the incidence of cardiovascular disease and promote healthy lifestyles.
• Discuss the concepts of using the pedometers as a tool to encouraging lifestyle modification

 

Friday

Student Presentations.