Interactive Digestive System

Product ID: 0321506820-D
Price:  $99.95

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ADAM/Benjamin Cummings Interactive Digestive System enriches the teaching environment by providing audio/visual understanding of complex topics. For use as both a presentation and teaching tool in the classroom, as well as a study tool for students, this CD-ROM features full-color animations, sound, interactive quizzes, games, and clinical scenarios that thoroughly demonstrate difficult physiology concepts and help bridge the gap between simply memorizing a concept and truly understanding it.

Includes:
Anatomy Review: Overall Function of the GI System. Discusses the four-layered wall of the GI tract (mucuosa, submucosa, muscularis externa, and serosa). Illustrates the anatomical features of the GI tract and outlines their functions. The quiz questions ask the student to identify and label structures, complete a summary chart, match structures and functions, and apply their understanding to a clinical problem (acid reflux).

Control of the Digestive System. Step-by-step illustration of the phases of control of the digestive process. Discusses the involvement of the parasympathetic, sympathetic, and enteric nervous systems. Demonstrates the functions of neurotransmitters and hormones in the digestive process. In the quiz, students must demonstrate their understanding of reflex activities of the GI tract and apply what they've learned about neurotransmitters to clinical problems (treatment of diarrhea and dysentery).

Motility. Describes the actions of the muscles of the GI tract that mix and propel its contents. Animations demonstrate peristalsis, segmentation, migrating motility complexes, mass movements, defecation, and vomiting. The quiz questions require students to build a table identifying motility in the different regions of the GI tract, create a chain of events describing defecation, and apply their understanding of motility to clinical problems (constipation and diarrhea).  

Secretion. Illustrates GI tract secretions (salivary, gastric, pancreatic, liver, and intestinal) and their functions. Students travel through each region to learn about neural and hormonal regulation of the secretions. The quiz includes drag-and-drop activities to identify specific secretions, and an interactive activity to provide patient education to someone who has had a gallbladder removed.

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