Cardiac Development Objectives

At the end of this course, participants will:

Describe the primitive cardiac tube, and its early growth in length, shape and function.
Differentiate the early structures that transform the single chamber into the four chambered pump.
Associate the openings between the heart's early chambers, and the walls that eventually separate those chambers.
Describe the tissue growth that separates venous from arterial outflow tract.
Review the order of major cardiac development events.
Relate embryological events to potential cardiac defects in the fetus and newborn.