NHLBI’s DCI Now Offers
Podcasts and
Animated Graphics |
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The Diseases and Conditions Index (DCI) now has
multimedia! NHLBI’s DCI features podcasts and
animations, in addition to still graphics, to enhance
your learning experience. See which topics offer
podcasts, graphics, and animations
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Listen to DCI Podcasts
Podcasts are files available in an audio format that
you can download and listen to on personal computers or
portable digital audio players. The DCI is a
Web-based health information index with a quick and easy
way to get complete and dependable information about
heart, lung, and blood diseases and sleep
disorders. Combining the DCI and podcasts is a
great match! Here are the topics available now
with podcasts:
- Heart Attack
- Insomnia
- Overweight and Obesity
Follow this link to get the DCI podcasts and learn
more about how to access and use them. http://www.nhlbi.nih.gov/health/dci/pods/podcasts.html
 Look for the icon to find DCI topics with a
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See the DCI’s Animations and Anatomical
Graphics
The DCI topics are written in plain language for ease
of understanding. Take a look at these topics that have
graphics and/or animations to enhance
understanding: |
- Arrhythmia
– includes animations for three arrhythmias and a
graphic of the heart.
- Bronchoscopy
– includes an animation showing how the test is done.
- Cardiac
Catheterization – has an animation that shows how
the procedure is done.
- Heart
Attack – includes graphics to show what causes a
heart attack and animation that shows how a heart
attack occurs.
- How
the Heart Works – includes animations that show
how the heart pumps blood and how the heart’s
electrical system works.
- Pulmonary
Embolism – includes animation showing how a clot
in a deep vein of the leg can break off, travel to the
lungs, and block blood flow.
- Stents
– includes graphics and animation to show how a stent
is placed.
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New DCI topic coming soon—How the Lungs Work—includes
an animation showing how the lungs function.
Most other DCI topics include a graphic illustration
including the Test and Procedure topics and Aneurysm,
Angina, Atherosclerosis, Coronary Artery Disease,
Congenital Heart Disease, Heart Failure, Varicose Veins,
Heart Surgery, and Peripheral Arterial Disease.
Take a few minutes and check out these resources
today.
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