Go with the flow! A hands-on approach to discovering blood vessels in the human body

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Target Audience

High school students, including those who may not have access to STEM content that develops scientific understanding of the body, clinical applications, and healthcare career resources.

Description

Using the human circulatory system as a platform for learning, this STEM and pre-health enrichment for high school students will introduce the role, dynamics and some pathology challenges of the arterial and venous systems of the human body. Through short lectures accompanied by simulation labs, students will develop an understanding of anatomical circulatory pathways, vessel diameter and blood pressure, importance of nutrition and clinical solution interventions for sodium homestasis, and a minimally-invasive technique to address a major pathological consequence of cholesterol.

Speaker
Patricia Koplas, PhD, PT
Tarey Strickland, PT, DPT

Objectives

• Construct color-coded arterial and venous pathways on a 2D upper or lower extremity image and identify their unique roles in the circulatory system.
• Understand how vessel diameter and fluid dynamics influence blood pressure with tubing lab simulation and discuss clinical relevance of blood pressure statistics in different populations.
• Using nutrition labels and IV simulation lab, determine how to manage sodium and blood volume levels if the goal is fluid and electrolyte homeostasis.
• Understand impacts of cholesterol and blood clots while performing an embolectomy simulation 5. Provide STEM enrichment and discuss clinical applications of content with high school students having limited content in current school curriculum.

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