Jackson Cardiovascular-Renal Meeting 2008 1 FROM GUYTON'S GRAPHIC DIAGRAM TO MULTIMEDIA SIMULATORS FOR TEACHING PHYSIOLOGY (RESURRECTION OF GUYTON’S CHART FOR EDUCATIONAL PURPOSE)

Summary: The authors describe an implementation of a classic many ‐times‐copied Guyton's circulatory‐system‐ control chart in the Simulink environment. They point out that there were mistakes in the original pictographic chart that were necessary to be corrected before the implementation. The appearance of the model has been preserved in the Simulink similar to the Guyton's graphic chart ‐the scheme layout, the wiring placement, the quantity names and the block numbers are the same. The model behaviour demonstrates the pathogenesis of different pathological states truly enough to be used for teaching of physiological regulatory systems in the biomedical‐engineering‐students education, as well as as a theoretical basis for a multimedia simulator, created in the.NET environment and web ‐accessible for medicine students at Charles university in Prague. Thirty‐six years ago, an especial article appeared in Annual Review of Physiology, Guyton et al. 1972 [4] that surpassed all the traditional papers on physiology of that time. It was introduced by a large diagram in a tip‐in plate (a detail at Fig. 1). The chart full of lines and interconnected elements reminded of an electrical device at first sight. Instead of the vacuum tubes or other electrica