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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 below.

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

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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.

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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