{"id":355161,"date":"2017-01-19T03:00:00","date_gmt":"2017-01-19T00:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.fyysika.ee\/?guid=49f367abb60c4337cd06bab61e629d1e"},"modified":"2017-01-19T03:00:00","modified_gmt":"2017-01-19T00:00:00","slug":"laboratory-model-of-the-cardiovascular-system-for-experimental-demonstration-of-pulse-wavepropagation","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.fyysika.ee\/?p=355161","title":{"rendered":"Laboratory model of the cardiovascular system for experimental demonstration of pulse wave\r\npropagation"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The velocity by which a disturbance moves through the medium is the wave velocity. Pulse wave<br \/>\nvelocity is among the key parameters in hemodynamics. Investigation of wave propagation through the<br \/>\nfluid-filled elastic tube has a great importance for the proper biophysical understanding of the<br \/>\nnature of blood flow through the cardiovascular system. Here, we present a laboratory model of the<br \/>\ncardiovascular system. We have designed an experimental setup which can help medical and nursing<br \/>\nstudents to properly learn and understand basic fluid hemodynamic principles, pulse wave and the<br \/>\nphenomenon of wave propagation in blood vessels. Demonstration of wave propagation allowed a real<br \/>\ntime observation of the formation of compression and expansion waves by students, thus enabling them<br \/>\nto better understand the difference between the two waves, and also to measure the pulse wave<br \/>\nvelocity for different fluid viscosities. The laboratory model of the cardiovascular system could be<br \/>\nuseful as an ac&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The velocity by which a disturbance moves through the medium is the wave velocity. Pulse wave<br \/>\nvelocity is among the key parameters in hemodynamics. Investigation of wave propagation through the<br \/>\nfluid-filled elastic tube has a great importance for the&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_genesis_hide_title":false,"_genesis_hide_breadcrumbs":false,"_genesis_hide_singular_image":false,"_genesis_hide_footer_widgets":false,"_genesis_custom_body_class":"","_genesis_custom_post_class":"","_genesis_layout":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[178],"tags":[],"class_list":{"0":"post-355161","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","6":"category-rss-fuusikaharidus","7":"entry"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.fyysika.ee\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/355161","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.fyysika.ee\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.fyysika.ee\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.fyysika.ee\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.fyysika.ee\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=355161"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.fyysika.ee\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/355161\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.fyysika.ee\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=355161"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.fyysika.ee\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=355161"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.fyysika.ee\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=355161"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}