Importance of Fluids: Gas Movement/Exchange

Importance of Fluids for the Circulation of Blood, Gas Movement, and Gas Exchange

This course covers the material of content category 4B of the official MCAT exam content outline.

Since antiquity, many medical and healing traditions have established a relationship between fluids and the functioning of the human body. Examples include the humoral theory of illness and the importance of water and the other four elements in traditional Chinese medicine. Today, the expansion of our understanding of physics, along with advances in anatomy and physiology, has enabled us to study the mechanics of two important fluids: air and blood (not ignoring lymph). Fluid mechanics applied to physiology falls under the subfield of biophysics, which has allowed us to understand the physical properties of physiological and pathological phenomena.

In this course, students will be introduced to the basics of fluid mechanics as applied to liquids and gases. For optimal comprehension, students are required to have a college-level understanding of physics, chemistry, and calculus.

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Your Educators of course Importance of Fluids for the Circulation of Blood, Gas Movement, and Gas Exchange

Thad Wilson, PhD

Dr. Thad E. Wilson is a Professor and Director of Education in the Department of Physiology at the University of Kentucky College of Medicine, USA.
He obtained his PhD from the University of Utah, Salt Lake City.
Not only is he an experienced lecturer with many years of teaching experience, but he has also developed and improved medical curriculums, and served in leadership roles directing Medical Physiology and various organ system courses.
Due to his achievements, Dr. Wilson has been awarded multiple institutional and national medical school teaching awards.
Within Lecturio, Dr. Wilson teaches courses on Physiology.

Jared Rovny

Dr. Jared Rovny has been a Lecturer at Yale University in Connecticut, USA since 2013.
He obtained his PhD in Physics from Yale University in 2019. He was awarded the D. Allan Bromley Graduate Fellowship in Physics in 2019 and the Princeton Quantum Institute Postdoctoral Fellow in 2020.
Currently, he works with Yale's Center for Teaching and Learning at Yale University.
Due to his achievements, he earned the Yale College Prize Teaching Fellowship for his work in PHYS 171 (University Physics for the Life Sciences).
Within Lecturio, Dr. Rovny teaches courses on Physics.

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thank you dr!

By Polyxeni K. on 07. March 2023 for Flow, Pressure and Resistance Theory – Blood Vessels and Pressure (Hemodynamics)

very good explanation! thank you for everything you done for oss!

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By Rhea Mae A. on 12. October 2021 for Gas Phase

The video was a great help in making me understand easily on the topic of the gas phase. I think it was very educational for the students who struggles to understand well the topic.

Top-notch.

By Shivam C. on 22. December 2020 for Vascular Anatomy – Blood Vessels and Pressure (Hemodynamics)

Amazing teacher, straight to the point, clear way of explaining.

A great class with a clear explanation

By Pamela B. on 29. September 2020 for Gas Phase

This class was great for me when I was studying the respiratory system physiology.