A separate chapter covers the overall experimental procedures, including anesthetization, isolation of blood vessels and nerves, and installation of monitoring equipment such as electrodes, pressure transducers, and flow probes. The chapters are described in detail on the following pages. The Cardiovascular Laboratory includes the videodisc, MS-DOS computer programs, instructor manual, and student workbook. The workbook has copies of representative polygraph recordings which the student may use to write traditional lab reports. The programs are designed to use a video overlay card to display the video and computer images on a single monitor.
Control is by keyboard, mouse, or touch screen.
The programs also will run on dual monitor systems in which the computer and video images appear on separate monitors. The authoring program, which was used to write the lessons, is available at no cost. Using the authoring program it would be possible to modify the programs to fit your specific needs, or even to repurpose the videodisc. A log of the videodisc frames is available to aid in repurposing. Contents of The Cardiovascular Laboratory Lesson T he program uses a main menu for selection of chapters.