Cardiovascular System

Cardiovascular System
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How to get the most from the revision slides
  • Have a pen & paper ready
  • Answer every question
  • Mark your answer after answering
  • Elaborate on each answer
  • Add relevant clinical content
  • If you have trouble, ask

Philosophy 1

What is the least amount of work I can do so I can get out of here.

Philosophy 2

Today and Now I will do something for my future self.

Community of Truth

What is my answer?
What is the correct answer?
I am am wrong, what was my error?
THUS: Find the truth

Generic issues

  • Pen & Paper
  • Annotations - as many as possible
  • Don't obsess about neat
  • Except surgery

What should you be able to do?

  • Identify A + V + L + N
  • Differentiate elastic & muscular A
  • Identify the 3 main layers in AVL
  • Identify small features ex Vv
  • Identify capillaries
  • Know portal systems
  • Know end arteries

Muscular artery & Vein

  • Slides 69 & 70
  • Majority

Macroscopic anatomy

  • Holds true at the microscopic level
  • Blood vessels in sheath
  • Artery + Vein + Nerve + Lymphatics
  • Example femoral sheath

Elastic artery

  • Slides 67 & 49
  • Aorta

Large Vein

Slides 92 & 109

Ductus thoracicus

Slides 65 & 75

Specific issues

  • Focus & Integration
  • Endothelium
  • Atherosclerosis
  • Aneurysms
  • Invalidate correct answers/diagnosis
What are end arteries?

End arteries

  • Normal histology
  • Pathology - necrosis
  • Symptom - chest pain
  • Diagnosis - Myocardial infarct
  • What happened - heart attack

End arteries

  • Heart
  • Brain
  • Eye
  • Kidney

End artery

  • Heart attack
  • Stroke
  • Blindness
  • Kidney attack?

The End

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