Pulmonary:
- Review concepts related to anticholinergic drugs and the treatment for asthma
- Bronchitis and associated pathogenesis
- Chronic bronchitis and related acid/base disturbances, perfusion, blood flow between the heart and lungs
- Asthma signs and symptoms
- Bronchioles
- Alveolar hyperinflation with asthma
- Polycythemia vera
- Mechanism of action of anticholinergic drugs to treat asthma
Cardiovascular:
- Cardiac output
- Cardiac contractility
- Preload/afterload
- Systole/diastole
- Heart valves (when they are open and closed; the production of S1 & S2)
- Stenosis of the heart valves and effects
- Stroke volume
- Cor Pulmonale
- Heart failure and physiologic processes that lead to heart failure symptoms
- Hypertension
- Calcium binding and troponin
Hematology:
- Hematopoiesis
- Risk factors and causes for developing any type of anemia
- Iron-deficiency anemia
- Erythrocyte function and lifespan
- Sickle-cell anemia
- Thalassemia
- Pernicious anemia
- Hemolytic anemia
- Erythropoietin
- Functions of hemoglobin
- Development of anemia due to gastrectomy
- Effects of being transfused with incorrect blood type
Genitourinary/Renal:
- Anatomy and physiology of the kidney
- Nephron damage
- Tubular reabsorption
- Tubular Secretion
- Conditions associated with renal failure
- Calculi blockage of ureter
- Benign prostatic hypertrophy
- Prerenal, intrarenal, and postrenal disease and what causes them
- Glomerulonephritis
- Treatment of renal failure
- Blood hydrostatic pressure
- Kidney filtration
- Role of angiotensin converting enzyme (ACE)
Immunity:
- Role of macrophages
Instituition / Term | |
Term | Session 2019 |
Institution | Chamberlain |
Contributor | S James |