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Professor Cechner will present a semi-quantitative review of the human body with emphasis on how complex systems can be represented and reduced to simple models for asking and answering clinically significant “what if” questions. How does a bacterium interfere with your temperature control system? What systems are involved in preventing an anxious mother from nursing her new baby? How can systems analysis show that kidney damage can lead to changes in blood hemoglobin? Examples will be taken from many years of experience in pathology, forensic medicine and toxicology, and from sub disciplines in anesthesiology. Basic anatomy, biochemistry, and neurophysiology will be reviewed to create the foundation for exercises involving analysis and synthesis focused on the cardiovascular, respiratory, renal and other selected systems. You will have an opportunity to extract the salient features of several complex body systems, combine them graphically, or mathematically, and create a model that, hopefully, will recreate real-world behavior and then try to predict the results of a disease and, perhaps, what might be done to “cure” the disease. Demonstrations of high fidelity medical simulators used in anesthesiology will be scheduled from time to time if class size and clinical scheduling permits.
This will be a 6 week class, from  6/16/2008 - 7/30/2008 in Wickenden Building. Time is to be arranged. Please contact Dr. Cechner who will be making arrangements.
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