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Kids Health: Your Heart and Circulatory System
Get an overview of the function of the whole circulatory system by watching this video. [2:29]
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Khan Academy: Blood Pressure: Flow and Perfusion
Learn the difference between blood flow (volume/time) and perfusion (volume/time/amount of tissue). Rishi is a pediatric infectious disease physician and works at Khan Academy. [10:31]
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Khan Academy: Blood Pressure: Pressure, Flow, & Resistance
See how pressure, flow, and resistance relate to one another and how they each affect the human body. Rishi is a pediatric infectious disease physician and works at Khan Academy. [11:50]
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Khan Academy: Blood Pressure: Blood Pressure Changes Over Time
See how increasing resistance in the blood vessels can cause blood pressure to rise over time. Rishi is a pediatric infectious disease physician and works at Khan Academy. [11:25]
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Khan Academy: Blood Vessels: Three Types of Capillaries
Learn the differences between continuous, fenestrated, and discontinuous capillaries, and how they affect the movement of molecules. Rishi is a pediatric infectious disease physician and works at Khan Academy. [9:17]
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Khan Academy: Blood Vessels: Arteries, Arterioles, Venules, and Veins
Learn the differences between these blood vessels! Rishi is a pediatric infectious disease physician and works at Khan Academy. [7:43]
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Khan Academy: Blood Pressure: What Is Blood Pressure?
Find out what a systolic and diastolic blood pressure mean. Rishi is a pediatric infectious disease physician and works at Khan Academy. [6:21]
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Khan Academy: Heart Introduction: Two Circulations in the Body
Learn the difference between the pulmonary and systemic circulatory systems in the body. Rishi is a pediatric infectious disease physician and works at Khan Academy.
About Kids Health
About Kids Health: Exploring the Heart: The Circulatory System
Animated interative that teaches young readers about the circulatory system, anatomy of the heart, and how the heart functions.
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Crash Course History of Science #15: The New Anatomy
What is life? To try to answer that question, three tools stand out as being especially useful: A book, some experiments, and the microscope! In this video, trace the history of different theories about how our body works. [12:15]
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Khan Academy: Active Contraction vs. Passive Recoil
Go through the similarities and differences between the sarcomere and a slingshot! [7:30]
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Khan Academy: Sepsis: Systemic Inflammatory Response Syndrome (Sirs) to (Mods)
Sepsis can be viewed along a spectrum. This video walks through the different levels of sepsis from mild symptoms to severe symptoms known as septic shock. [7:43]
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Khan Academy: Stages of Hypertension
What do your blood pressure numbers mean? In this video, learn the difference between systolic and diastolic pressure and when these numbers are in the danger zone. [6:13]
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Khan Academy: Shock Hemodynamics
This video looks at factors that influence shock and decreased tissue perfusion. [7:39]
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Khan Academy: Shock Oxygen Delivery and Metabolism
This video explains why cells need oxygen and what happens when cells do not receive oxygen resulting in shock. This video also describes the different types of shock. [9:07]
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Khan Academy: Thoracic Aortic Aneurysms
This Khan Academy resource is a video what are thoracic aortic aneurysms and how they can affect the body.
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Khan Academy: Thinking About Heartbeats
Find out what happens when things move very slowly through the AV Node! Rishi is a pediatric infectious disease physician and works at Khan Academy.
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Khan Academy: Causes of Pericarditis
Watch this video to review over pericarditis and its causes. [10:11]
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Khan Academy: Tetralogy of Fallot
This Khan Academy resource is a video about tetralogy of fallot which is a form of a cyanotic heart disease.
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Khan Academy: The Ischemic Cascade in Stroke
Visit us (http://www.khanacademy.org/science/healthcare-and-medicine) for health and medicine content or (http://www.khanacademy.org/test-prep/mcat) for MCAT related content. These videos do not provide medical advice and are for...
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Khan Academy: Stroke Work in Pv Loops and Boxes
Watch how PV loops can be 'morphed' into PV boxes to make drawing them and thinking about them much simpler. Rishi is a pediatric infectious disease physician and works at Khan Academy.
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Khan Academy: Patent Ductus Arteriosus
Patent ductus arteriosus is a medical condition where a blood vessel called the ductus arteriosus does not permanently close after birth. Learn why the ductus arteriosus does not close, why patients with this condition have a wide pulse...
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Khan Academy: Ventricular Tachycardia (Vtach)
This video explains ventricular tachycardia (V-tach) and its symptoms. [7:42]
