NA 710 Scientific Foundations of Anesthesia

Credit, four hours.
Provides advanced theoretical foundations of chemistry, biochemistry, physics, mathematics, anatomy, and physiology relevant to the safe practice of nurse anesthesia. This course explores concepts such as homeostasis, cell physiology, signaling, diffusion, transport, pressure-volume relationships, flow-resistance, heterometric autoregulation, anatomic terms, drug calculations, mathematical conversions, etc.
1. Describe the anatomy and physiology of major human organ systems.
2. Review chemistry, biochemistry, physics, and mathematics as they apply to the
practice of anesthesia.
3. Explain basic cellular physiologic mechanisms of cellular signaling and
downstream responses.
4. Discuss basic genetic concepts as they relate to the development and function of
major human organ systems.
5. Collaborate as a part of team for application of knowledge gained. Corequisite(s):

NA 720