[HN Gopher] Physics of 300-year-old firefighting methods could i...
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       Physics of 300-year-old firefighting methods could inform how our
       hearts work
        
       Author : wglb
       Score  : 13 points
       Date   : 2024-01-24 01:45 UTC (21 hours ago)
        
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 (TXT) w3m dump (phys.org)
        
       | selimthegrim wrote:
       | Look, I like AJP, but I don't think Windkessel is heavily
       | stressed by cardiologists in med school today from a research
       | perspective.
        
       | eig wrote:
       | This isn't really a new question... every cardiologist was taught
       | the Windkessel model of the cardiovascular system, and it's
       | taught in med school today (I am a med student). We specifically
       | learned it as a RC filter (aortic compliance and vascular
       | resistance) attached to an impulse train (the heartbeats). It
       | makes a great homework problem to think about how the blood
       | pressure waveform changes with calcification.
        
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