Hey Team,
A couple of people have sent me some information and links that I thought I would share with you to help with studying! Also remember, crying is a natural process in studying....it is only after you become dehydrated and electrolyte depleted from such crying, that true understanding of concepts can take place.
Access Medicine: Use your NSID to access these texts on CV:
Yale Medicine: This is a link that is very thorough on Cardiothoracic Imaging
ECG Explained: This one on ECGs is courtesy of Cassie, and she found it very good in explaining ECG Leads.
Blaufuss: This one explains cardiac heart sounds. Courtesy of Nico and Tanner.
3D Heart: Do you have trouble visualizing things in 3D off paper? Then 3D heart is for you! This site give a relatively basic heart, but will help you visualize it front-back.
CV concepts PDFs: These pdfs are from a CV concepts textbook. They come very highly recommended from the upper years! These pdfs are freely available online, so we don't have to worry about copyright issues! Woot!
Here is a link to all of the documents online
This is a summary of the chapters:
Chapter 1: Intro to the CV system
Chapter 2: Electrical Activity
Chapter 3: Cellular Structure
Chapter 4: Cardiac Function
Chapter 5: Vascular Function
Chapter 6: Neurohormonal Control
Chapter 7: Organ blood flow
Chapter 8: Exchange and microcirculation
Supplement