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Find out more about heart muscles and what happens when they contract. Three Types of Muscle. Heart Cells Up Close!. Myosin and Actin. Tropomyosin and troponin and their role in regulating muscle contraction. Calcium Puts Myosin to Work. Sympathetic Nerves Affect Myosin Activity. Why Doesn't the Heart Rip?. Three Types of Muscle. Heart Cells Up Close!. Myosin and Actin. Tropomyosin and troponin and their role in regulating muscle contraction. Calcium Puts Myosin to Work. Sympathetic Nerves Affect Myosin Activity. Why Doesn't the Heart Rip?.

Learn all about hypertension: symptoms, diagnosis, and how lifestyle changes can make a difference!. What is hypertension?. Hypertension symptoms and categories. Hypertension effects on the blood vessels. Hypertension effects on the heart. 4 lifestyle changes to help manage hypertension. What is hypertension?. Hypertension symptoms and categories. Hypertension effects on the blood vessels. Hypertension effects on the heart. 4 lifestyle changes to help manage hypertension.

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Ever wonder about your lab values and what they mean? Lab values measure amounts of electrolytes or cells in your blood and occasionally tell you about how hormones and enzymes are working! Dive deeper and get a good understanding of concentrations as well!. Introduction to lab values and normal ranges. What's Inside of Blood?. Units for common medical lab values. What is an equivalent?. The mole and avogadro's number. Molarity vs. Molality. Molarity vs. Osmolarity. Calculate your own osmolarity. Molarity, Molality, Osmolarity, Osmolality, and Tonicity - What's the difference?. Tonicity - comparing 2 solutions. Introduction to lab values and normal ranges. What's Inside of Blood?. Units for common medical lab values. What is an equivalent?. The mole and avogadro's number. Molarity vs. Molality. Molarity vs. Osmolarity. Calculate your own osmolarity. Molarity, Molality, Osmolarity, Osmolality, and Tonicity - What's the difference?. Tonicity - comparing 2 solutions.

MCAT Video Competition. MCAT Video Competition Details. How to make a video. MCAT Video Competition. MCAT Video Competition Details. How to make a video.

Enjoy!. Bacterial Meningitis. Ritual of the Bedside Exam. Systemic Thinking About Cancer. Inflammation. Bacterial Meningitis. Ritual of the Bedside Exam. Systemic Thinking About Cancer. Inflammation.

Learn how the sympathetic and parasympathetic nerves regulate your heart in so many different ways!. Changing the AV Node Delay - Chronotropic Effect. Changing the Heart Rate - Chronotropic Effect. Increasing Ventricular Contractility - Inotropic effect. Autonomic Nervous System Effects on the Heart. Getting a New Heart. Changing the AV Node Delay - Chronotropic Effect. Changing the Heart Rate - Chronotropic Effect. Increasing Ventricular Contractility - Inotropic effect. Autonomic Nervous System Effects on the Heart. Getting a New Heart.

Find out exactly what preload and afterload mean, and why most of us use a handy shortcut to guess-timating what they are!. Why Doesn't the Heart Rip?. What is Preload?. Preload and Pressure. Preload Stretches out the Heart Cells. Frank-Starling Mechanism. Sarcomere length-tension relationship. Active contraction vs. passive recoil. What is afterload?. Increasing the Heart's Force of Contraction. Why Doesn't the Heart Rip?. What is Preload?. Preload and Pressure. Preload Stretches out the Heart Cells. Frank-Starling Mechanism. Sarcomere length-tension relationship. Active contraction vs. passive recoil. What is afterload?. Increasing the Heart's Force of Contraction.

Watch as the pressure and amount of blood inside the left ventricle go up and down within fractions of a second!. Pressure in the Left Heart - Part 1. Pressure in the Left Heart - Part 2. Pressure in the Left Heart - Part 3. Left Ventricular Pressure vs. Time. Left Ventricular Volume vs. Time. Drawing a Pressure-Volume Loop. Understanding the Pressure-Volume Loop. End Diastolic Pressure-Volume Relationship (EDPVR). End Systolic Pressure-Volume Relationship (ESPVR). Reimagine the Pressure Volume Relationship. What is Preload?. Why Doesn't the Heart Rip?. Pressure in the Left Heart - Part 1. Pressure in the Left Heart - Part 2. Pressure in the Left Heart - Part 3. Left Ventricular Pressure vs. Time. Left Ventricular Volume vs. Time. Drawing a Pressure-Volume Loop. Understanding the Pressure-Volume Loop. End Diastolic Pressure-Volume Relationship (EDPVR). End Systolic Pressure-Volume Relationship (ESPVR). Reimagine the Pressure Volume Relationship. What is Preload?. Why Doesn't the Heart Rip?.

Your heart sits in the middle of your chest and pumps blood from about 4 weeks after conception until the day that you die. It never stops, and over your lifetime it will pump ~175 million liters of blood. To visualize that, imagine the amount of water that falls over Niagara falls in a few minutes. Remarkable! This little pump is the size of your clenched fist and in an adult can weigh about 300 grams. Watch these videos to learn more about how the heart works, blood flow in arteries and veins, and blood pressure. Meet the heart!. Layers of the Heart. Flow through the Heart. Two Circulations in the Body. Lub Dub. Heart Quiz. Circulatory System and the Heart. Arteries vs. Veins - What's the difference?. Layers of a blood vessel. Arteries, Arterioles, Venules, and Veins. Three Types of Capillaries. Pre-Capillary Sphincters. What is blood pressure?. Learn how a stethoscope can help determine blood pressure. Resistance in a tube. Adding up resistance in series and in parallel. Adding up resistance problem. Flow and Perfusion. Putting it all together: Pressure, flow, and resistance. Blood pressure changes over time. Regulation of blood pressure with baroreceptors. Parts of a nephron. General overview of the RAAS system - Cells and hormones. Renin production in the kidneys. Activating Angiotensin 2. Angiotensin 2 raises blood pressure. Aldosterone raises blood pressure and lowers potassium. Aldosterone removes acid from the blood. ADH secretion. ADH effects on blood pressure. Aldosterone and ADH. Meet the heart!. Layers of the Heart. Flow through the Heart. Two Circulations in the Body. Lub Dub. Heart Quiz. Circulatory System and the Heart. Arteries vs. Veins - What's the difference?. Layers of a blood vessel. Arteries, Arterioles, Venules, and Veins. Three Types of Capillaries. Pre-Capillary Sphincters. What is blood pressure?. Learn how a stethoscope can help determine blood pressure. Resistance in a tube. Adding up resistance in series and in parallel. Adding up resistance problem. Flow and Perfusion. Putting it all together: Pressure, flow, and resistance. Blood pressure changes over time. Regulation of blood pressure with baroreceptors. Parts of a nephron. General overview of the RAAS system - Cells and hormones. Renin production in the kidneys. Activating Angiotensin 2. Angiotensin 2 raises blood pressure. Aldosterone raises blood pressure and lowers potassium. Aldosterone removes acid from the blood. ADH secretion. ADH effects on blood pressure. Aldosterone and ADH.

Get a better understanding of how your lungs help you to sing and survive!. Meet the lungs. People and plants. The Bronchial Tree. Inhaling and Exhaling. How does Lung Volume Change?. The Lungs and Pulmonary System. Alveolar Gas Equation - Part 1. Alveolar Gas Equation - Part 2. O2 and CO2 solubility. Henry's law. Graham's Law of Diffusion. Fick's Law of Diffusion. Oxygen Movement from Alveoli to Capillaries. Peripheral Chemoreceptors. Central Chemoreceptors. The Respiratory Center. Sneeze, Cough, and Hiccup. Meet the lungs. People and plants. The Bronchial Tree. Inhaling and Exhaling. How does Lung Volume Change?. The Lungs and Pulmonary System. Alveolar Gas Equation - Part 1. Alveolar Gas Equation - Part 2. O2 and CO2 solubility. Henry's law. Graham's Law of Diffusion. Fick's Law of Diffusion. Oxygen Movement from Alveoli to Capillaries. Peripheral Chemoreceptors. Central Chemoreceptors. The Respiratory Center. Sneeze, Cough, and Hiccup.

This interdisciplinary course focuses on sustainable innovation, introducing entrepreneurial students to the realities of problem identification and solution design within the complex world of healthcare.

Learn more about how your heart works, the causes of heart disease and what you can do to keep your heart healthy.

By Jill Helms

HMP 607 is the third in a three-course sequence intended to impart to generalist administrators the knowledge of finance and accounting necessary to manage health care organizations. The first course, HMP 608, covers financial accounting. The second course, HMP 606, focuses on managerial accounting topics. This third course concentrates on corporate finance topics. It aims to impart an understanding of how finance theory and practice can inform the decision-making of the health care firm. As such, HMP 607 is most appropriately considered a corporate finance course, as opposed to a course in financial markets. In addition, it will integrate corporate finance and accounting theories, institutional knowledge of health care finance, and applications to specific problems. Course Level: Graduate This Work, HMP 607 - Corporate Finance for Health Care Administrators, by Jack Wheeler is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial-ShareAlike license.

Introductory virology course that covers the interplay between viruses and their host organisms, with with the goal of understanding viral diseases and their prevention.

Learn how to achieve consistent and excellent results in all aspects of dental photography.

Problems with healthcare quality, access, and costs bedevil all countries. This course explores how to create successful global business innovations in health care that can better meet consumer and social needs. Upon conclusion, you will learn to evaluate opportunities and gain an understanding of the elements necessary for viable healthcare business models.
 
Innovating in Health Care (IHC) enables participants to meet and interact with others who are also interested in improving health care. Through case study analysis and application of the “Innovating in Health Care Framework”, this course focuses on evaluating and crafting healthcare startup business models that focus on the six factors that critically shape new healthcare ventures: Financing, Structure, Public Policy, Consumers, Technology, and Accountability. Innovating in Health Care discusses the impact of these factors on business models for three different kinds of innovations: Consumer-focused, technology-driven, and integrations which create scale.
 
Innovating in Health Care is being offered in 2 formats:

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• Limited enrollment team-based course
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• Meet potential team members through the discussion board of the open course, and click the ENROLL button. 

​Applicants will be notified of their acceptance by May 12, 23:00 UTC. 

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An ideal introduction for those interested in understanding how genetics influences the development and spread of cancer.

This course provides those involved in educating members of the health professions an asynchronous, interdisciplinary, and interactive way to obtain, expand, and improve their teaching skills. These skills can then be applied within their own professional context, with a variety of learners, extending across many stages.