Re: heart failure

[Alice Mills <amills@xxxxxxx>]

Hi Ric,

        Thanks a lot for the fig.  I do have the Appl. manual.  I think 
they (yours and others) are really useful but find that I don't have time 
to devote to exploring them and then exploiting them;  my problem, nothing 
the author could do differently!  I am looking for something different, but 
perhaps that indicates an error in my thinking.  What I started to sketch 
on my own included other conditions - ischemia, angina pectoris, and 
ventricular fibrillation, and more focused on what leads to each problem 
(e.g. starvation ---> V-fib).  Your fig. would be a good part 2 to 
that.  What began my thought process is a student asking me about people 
having "heart attacks" from being very stressed;  not sure if she really 
meant MI, or palpitations, or angina, or what.  So I wanted to find or make 
something showing starvation, stress, kidney failure, as well as 
cardiovascular disease, all funneling down to V-fib or MI or CHF, but also 
something showing the relationship between those last few events.  i.e., 
V-fib is not MI, MI is not CHF, but they are related.  I'll still be 
looking for awhile, I guess!  Or if someone with clinical experience can 
straighten me out, maybe I'd see that such a flow chart would be incorrect 
or misleading.  Sometimes, it's tough being a non-clinical type teaching 
this class.


At 03:12 PM 1/23/2003 -1000, you wrote:
> Hi Alice,
> I'm not replying to the list for fear of being accused of advertising, but 
> please check out Figure A-40, attached, which is from p.106 of the 
> Applications Manual for the 6th edition of Fundamentals of A&P.  It gives 
> a basic overview that you can spin in several directions as needed.
> Let tell me if this is what you wanted.  It's a lot of work putting it 
> together, but I don't think many people even know the Applications Manual 
> exists, let alone that it can have useful stuff in it.
> Fond regards,
> Ric

Dr. Alice Mills
Dept. of Biological Sciences
University of Tennessee at Martin
Martin, TN  38238
(731) 587-7175
(731) 587-7187 (fax)