Although mom controls the oxygen source, the fetus has a couple of clever tricks to get the most oxygen possible! Rishi is a pediatric infectious disease physician and works at Khan Academy.
Learn how the needs of the fetus are met by the placenta, which is a special organ that belongs to both the mother and the fetus! Rishi is a pediatric infectious disease physician and works at Khan Academy.
Using the stethoscope to check blood pressure is a technique thatŐs been used for >100 years! Blood pressure is one of the major vital signs frequently measured by health care workers, and it tells us a lot about our blood circulation. Learn what blood pressure is, how it relates to resistance in a tube, why it is necessary to get oxygen to your cells, and how it can change as you age. WeŐll finally put it all together by relating pressure, flow, and resistance in one awesome equation!
The human body enjoys stability. For example, if your blood pressure changes, the body puts a couple of brilliant systems into motion in order to respond and bring your blood pressure back to normal. There are some quick responses using nerves and some slower responses using hormones. The system using hormones is sometimes called the renin-angiotensin-aldosterone-system (RAAS), which is the main system in the body for controlling blood pressure. When your blood pressure drops too low or gets too high, your kidneys, liver, and pituitary gland (part of your brain) talk to each other to solve the problem. They do this without you even noticing! Learn how the body knows when the blood pressure has changed, and how hormones like angiotensin 2, aldosterone, and ADH help return blood pressure to back to normal.
No organ quite symbolizes love like the heart. One reason may be that your heart helps you live, by moving ~5 liters (1.3 gallons) of blood through almost 100,000 kilometers (62,000 miles) of blood vessels every single minute! It has to do this all day, everyday, without ever taking a vacation! Now that is true love. Learn about how the heart works, how blood flows through the heart, where the blood goes after it leaves the heart, and what your heart is doing when it makes the sound ŇLub DubÓ.
Every time you take a breath, oxygen makes it way into your lungs. Follow along on that journey! Rishi is a pediatric infectious disease physician and works at Khan Academy.
Exploration of the connection between personal choices and health across multiple dimensions of wellness. Focus on personalized behavior change strategies to advance health. The purpose of this course is for adults to advance their personal health. People generally have a good sense about what to do to be healthy, but actually doing it consistently is another matter. Because of this challenge, behavior change theory is applied throughout this course to engage students and evoke health-related change. By the end of it, we want students to be healthier than they were at the start and we want them to have an understanding of how to continue advancing their health throughout their lives.
"This innovative, trans-faculty subject teaches how information technologies (IT) are reshaping and redefining the health care marketplace through improved economies of scale, greater technical efficiencies in the delivery of care to patients, advanced tools for patient education and self-care, network integrated decision support tools for clinicians, and the emergence of e-commerce in health care. Student tutorials provide an opportunity for interactive discussion. Interdisciplinary project teams comprised of Harvard and MIT graduate students in medicine, business, law, education, engineering, computer science, public health, and government collaborate to design innovative IT applications. Projects are presented during the final class. ĺĘ Starting in Spring 2010, this course will be titled Enabling Technology Innovation in Healthcare and the Life Sciences."
A memoir and history of the Institute of Agricultural Medicine at the University of Iowa, emphasizing its role in the development of the study and practice of occupational and environmental health and medicine for farmers their families and workers.
This video was produced for students in a training program for Speech-Language-Pathologists, addressing the terminology and dispositions that are appropriate when engaging with individuals who are D/deaf or hard of hearing, particularly related to topics of communication.
Celebrating the value of intercultural communication.
This textbook provides the novice learner with a foundational understanding of Canada’s 2019 Food Guide and Food Labelling. It highlights important considerations for future health professionals seeking to adopt the new food guide into their practice, including strategies towards healthy eating. This open textbook underscores a relational inquiry approach to inform discussions with clients about nutrition and healthy eating.
This virtual simulation promotes the application of knowledge and skills related to interprofessional collaboration and infection prevention and control practices. Learners will need a foundational knowledge in infection prevention and control practices, including routine practices and additional precautions guidelines. Learners will use their assessment and communication skills throughout the game. By the end of the virtual gaming simulation, learners will be able to apply interprofessional communication skills to foster collaboration and provide safe client care, demonstrate knowledge and skills related to infection prevention and control practices, and identify high risk areas to break the chain of transmission.
EDITION 2.1
Preface
We developed the first edition of this Anatomy and Physiology textbook in 2020, shortly after the COVID-19 Pandemic began. Reducing the costs of study materials would help rising Speech-Language Pathologists (SLPs) progress toward their certification without interruptions due to financial setbacks. Developing the Open Education Resource (OER) Anatomy and Physiology textbook was our first step in an ongoing effort to support future SLPs.
A large part of this book derived from various OpenStax textbook series. OpenStax is a nonprofit organization based out of Rice University in Houston, Texas. Its open resource textbooks cover a vast amount of information for two-semester core curriculum courses in various disciplines. OpenStax generously permits educators to use their books' content in part or in whole to develop textbooks customized for each instructor's course structure. The present textbook's OpenStax content is color-coded in black ink. Additional information concerning communication sciences and disorders appears in blue ink. The original OpenStax texts are accessible free of charge at https://openstax.org/subjects. This textbook includes applicable content from the OpenStax books Anatomy and Physiology, Psychology, and Biology for AP® Course.
This textbook contains various images produced by the third author, renowned Dr. Willard R. Zemlin (1929-1998), with permission. Dr. Zemlin was one of the most influential scholars in anatomy and physiology concerning communication sciences and disorders. Dr. Zemlin's son, Mr. Karl Zemlin, kindly sharpened numerous images for this book to provide high-resolution pictures. At Mr. Zemlin's suggestion, Dr. Zemlin is included as a co-author of this edition. Mr. Zemlin expressed his appreciation for the generosity of those who donated their bodies to science throughout his father's studies. A comprehensive collection of Dr. Zemlin's work is accessible at his memorial website http://zemlin.shs.uiuc.edu/zemlinBio.htm of which Mr. Zemlin is the webmaster.
The current edition also incorporates additional images from Wikimedia Commons. Wikimedia Commons website offers various information under Creative Common (CC) licenses, allowing the use and remix of the materials. This textbook would not have been possible without the contributions of OpenStax, Mr. Karl Zemlin, and generous providers of Wiki Common resources. We sincerely appreciate their generosity. Also, the authors would like to acknowledge the assistance of the students who used the initial edition of this book last year. They provided valuable comments from the learners’ point of view for refining the content. We have made this textbook available for our future colleagues to gain entry-level scientific knowledge applicable for serving individuals with communication disorders.
June S. Levitt, Ph.D., LDT, CCC-SLP
Sarah L. Guigneaux, M.S., CCC-SLP
Willard R. Zemlin, Ph.D.
May 2021
Contact: OpenResource2020@
An introduction to medical documentation for the physical therapist assistant. Includes reflection activities as well as documentation exercises and activities.
This book, titled "Introduction to Phonetics for Communication Sciences," has been specifically designed to cater to the undergraduate phonetics course in the field of communication sciences and disorders. Its primary goal is to enable students to grasp the intricacies of speech sounds by utilizing their knowledge of anatomy and physiology, which are directly relevant to speech production. Consequently, this book incorporates a selection of foundational information extracted from an OER anatomy and physiology textbook by Levitt, Guigneaux, and Zemlin (2021), "Introduction to Anatomy and Physiology for Communication Sciences, Edition 2.1" for review.
The purpose of this textbook is to comprehensively address the coursework requirements, allowing for the customization of learning objectives to assist aspiring Speech-Language Pathologists (SLPs) effectively. In response to the onset of the COVID-19 Pandemic in 2020, the authors took the initiative to create their first Open Educational Resource (OER) textbook on anatomy and physiology. By reducing the financial burden associated with study materials, this initiative aims to facilitate the progress of rising SLPs toward their certification without any interruptions caused by financial constraints. The authors view the development of OER materials as an ongoing endeavor driven by their commitment to supporting future colleagues in the field.
This book incorporates images, illustrations, and information from various OER that allow others to adopt or remix their information in part or whole. The information from other OER sources is color-coded in black ink, and the content developed by the authors is presented in blue ink. Citations for all images, illustrations, and information that the authors do not originate are provided on each page. The authors sincerely appreciate the work of those who have shared their valuable resources under Creative Commons (CC) license.
The authors of this textbook aspire to ignite a sense of fascination in beginning learners as they delve into the captivating realm of speech production. With this goal in mind, the authors have made this textbook readily accessible to future colleagues who seek to acquire foundational scientific knowledge that can be applied in serving individuals with communication disorders.
June S. Levitt, Ph.D., LDT, CCC-SLP
Sarah L. Guigneaux, M.S., CCC-SLP
May 2024
This book is a lab manual to accompany the KIN 4370 course: Exercise Testing and Prescription. The chapter for each lab activity includes background information, protocol description, comprehension questions, and tables to help with test interpretation (as required).
This book is a lab manual to accompany the Virtual KIN 4370 course: Exercise Testing and Prescription. The chapter for each lab activity includes background information, protocol description, comprehension questions, and tables to help with test interpretation (as required). The lab activities have been modified from face-to-face environment to an at-home virtual learning community.
Introduction to Physical Fitness and Wellness
Image credit: “Kinesiology the Science of Human Movement” by Lee College is licensed under CC BY-4.0. KINE/PHED 1164 Introduction to Physical Fitness is a lower-division ACGM course for foundational knowledge of physical fitness concepts. Students are asked to use critical thinking, communication, and self-reflection skills to complete the assignments, discussions, and quizzes. The textbook and quizzes in this course are adapted from the Concepts of Fitness and Wellness OER. The additional resources are provided and will be updated by the Lee College Kinesiology faculty.*The resources are being developed as part of an Implementation Grant from the OER Grant Program sponsored by the THECB.