Systemic Diseases and cardiac manifestations Presentation Instructions

The instructor discusses the upcoming lesson on systemic diseases and how they affect the heart. They mention the importance of early detection and the role of ECHO in evaluating cardiac pathology. The instructor also explains that students will be teaching each other about different systemic diseases through team presentations. They provide instructions on accessing the team page, conducting meetings, and uploading meeting minutes. The diseases to be presented on include diabetes, cancer therapy, pregnancy in the heart, sepsis, HIV, Marfan syndrome, end-stage renal disease, and Kawasaki's disease. The instructor outlines the criteria for the presentations and mentions that class time will be provided for practice. They encourage students to reach out with any questions or concerns. Hello, this is your instructor Veronica Eubanks. I hope everyone is having a good day today. Up to this point, we have covered many different cardiac pathologies, including valvular diseases, endocarditis, and cardiomyopathies, and I am sure you can list many more. For our next lesson, we are going to dive into different systemic diseases and look at how they affect the heart. Systemic diseases are disease processes that affect a number of tissues and or organ systems, or they can affect the body as a whole. The effects these diseases can have on the cardiovascular system include morphological abnormalities, functional abnormalities, and or hemodynamic abnormalities. As some of these systemic diseases are treatable and others are not, it is important that there is early detection that can help prevent mortality for some of these diseases. ECHO can be important in this detection process as it helps evaluate the cardiac pathology associated with these systemic diseases. As a note, although ECHO can detect cardiac manifestations, those findings are not always an indication of a specific systemic disease. As we begin this study into systemic diseases, you will find that there are many that lead to pathology of the heart. Although we are not able to cover all of them, we will be learning about a lot of them, and I will be honest, if I were to teach you all of these systemic diseases in lecture form, you would be bored out of your mind. So, to mix things up, you are going to teach each other about the different systemic diseases and how they affect the heart. You will be doing this through team presentations. Each team has already been randomly selected, and you can find who your team members are under your team page in the Canvas course. A few notes about your team page. If you do not remember how to access your team page, you can review the how to access team page under the how-to module in the Canvas course. All team members are expected to participate in this project, therefore, grading for each project will include a team grade as well as an individual grade. As a reminder, all communications are to be conducted on the team discussion board. Teams may conduct in-person and or virtual meetings, but the times and dates of those meetings must be listed on the team discussion board in a time frame that allows everyone to review and attend those meetings. Additionally, meeting minutes to those meetings are required to be uploaded into the team file section under your team page. A template for your meeting minutes can be found in this file section as well. On your team page, you will find the systemic disease that your team has been assigned as well as instructions for your presentation. Each presentation will be 10 to 15 minutes and will include the required criteria as well as echo imaging and must be supported by at least three peer-reviewed resources. The diseases that will be presented on include diabetes, cancer therapy, pregnancy in the heart, sepsis, HIV, Marfan syndrome, end-stage renal disease, and Kawasaki's disease. The criteria to be covered in your team presentation include the systemic diseases etiology, pathophysiology, signs and symptoms, diagnosis, prognosis, treatment, cardiac manifestations, and echo findings. As a reminder, all this information on what is required for your presentation can be found on your team home page. Presentations will be presented during class on week eight. If needed, week nine will be used to complete these presentations. You will also be provided partial class time during week seven to practice and polish your presentations. So I just wish you the best working on these presentations. In the meantime, please do not hesitate to contact me with any questions or concerns. I look forward to watching each of your presentations and have you teach me about the systemic disease and the effects on the cardiovascular system. I will see you all in class next week. In the meantime, have a good week.