Computer Activty Layout

Go To: http://www.pbs.org/wnet/heart/healthy/index.html
Click on: Heart Disease, and Epidemic!
1. Define Heart Disease
2. How many people does cardiovascular disease kill each year?
3. What would happen to life span if heart disease was eradicated?
4. How is heart disease changing in developing countries?
5. What has caused this change?
6. What support is there that heart disease may still be the a huge epidemic in 10 years?
Go to: http://www.pbs.org/wnet/heart/healthy/atherosclerosis.html
1. What is the common name for atherosclerosis?
2. What are complications that result from this disease?
3. What is plaque? Why is it bad?
4. List 4 things that affect your risk factors of getting this disease
5. What are 3 factors that can lead a person to be more susceptible to atherosclerosis that they CAN NOT control?
6. What are some differences and similarities of this disease in men and women?
7. What is the best protection against atherosclerotic risk?
Go to: http://www.pbs.org/wnet/heart/healthy/risk_factors.html
1. What factors cannot be controlled to prevent heart disease?
2. What are the four major causes to heart disease?
Go to: http://www.pbs.org/wnet/heart/episode2/anatomy.html
Click on pace maker…
1. What is a pacemaker?
2. What is a PRM why is it helpful to physicians?
Click on Defibrillator…
1. What is asystole?
2. What is a defibrillator useful in treating?
3. How is a defibrillator effective?
4. What is an ICD?
Click on Electrical Impulses of the heart…
1. What regulates the electrical activity of your heart?
2. What is an arrhythmia?
3. What is Q-T syndrome and how is it diagnosed?
Click on Fibrillation…
4. What is atrial fibrillation?
5. What are some risk factors associated with impaired circulation through the heart?
6. What results if ventricular fibrillation is not detected immediately?
Go to: http://www.pbs.org/wnet/heart/history/index.html
Make a timeline of Key events in cardiology!
Go to: http://www.stroke.org/site/PageServer?pagename=STROKE
1. What is stroke?
Go to: http://www.stroke.org/site/PageServer?pagename=RISK
1. What are 5 controllable risk factors?
2. What are 5 non- controllable risk factors?
Go to: http://www.stroke.org/site/PageServer?pagename=RECOV
1. What is the leading cause of disability in the US?
Go to: http://www.americanheart.org/presenter.jhtml?identifier=4468
1. What is cardiomyopathy?
2. What are the three types of cardiomyopathy?
3. List 5 facts about dilated (congestive) cardiomyopathy
4. What is a thrombus?
5. What is an embolism?
6. What is Barth Syndrome?
7. Why does this disease result in murmurs?
8. What is hypertrophic cardiomyopathy?
9. What are two side affects to this disease?
10. How common is this disease?
11. What is restrictive cardiomyopathy?
12. Who is most at risk for this disease?