Cardiovascular Module

The CV module provides experiential education for pre-health professions students by applying the student’s basic science knowledge to the pathophysiology of scenario-based examples of shock and its treatment. Basic science correlates to clinical medicine include:

1. Basic anatomy and physiology of the cardiovascular system
2. Cellular energy needs and how they harness necessary chemical energy
3. Cellular physiology and specifically cellular respiration in aerobic and anaerobic states
4. The effect low blood perfusion has on cellular function
5. Factors that influence fluid movement across a capillary membrane
6. Concepts of opposing forces of hydrostatic and osmotic (oncotic) pressures
7. Influence of diffusion gradients on movement of particles in a fluid
8. Factors that influence cardiac output
9. How treatment of various states of shock depends on the underlying pathophysiology