Perfusionist nurse trying to lear fluids mechanics

Hello everyone;

I am an Spanish nurse studying a postdegree of Extracorporeal Circulation on Cardiac Surgery and now we are studying phisiology and fluids mechanics and i discorver my university has license with matlab and i would like to learn about my field simulating on this software. Anyone has any tip how start, if vaible simulate an oxiygen membrane etc

Thank you everybody.

[John D'Errico]

I think you are asking for too much here, wanting to learn to simulate the behavior of an oxygen membrane, without knowing a thing about MATLAB at all. Before you learn to dive off the 30 foot platform into a pool, you want to learn to swim first, in the shallow end of the pool.

[Cristobal]

Yes yes i know its just want do a big scope of my aspirations, i am doing first of all basics course of Matlab :D anyway my question was focus on viability in a long long future :D. If you have any tip for start i woud be glad to hear it.

Now i am focus on r undertsanding flow conservation on a close system, for example one question is there is anyway to convert Pa on mmHG without Gain block ??

[Steven Lord]

Lots of companies and individuals use MATLAB and MathWorks products for medical applications. You can read stories about what our customers in this space have done here and here.

I kind of agree with John D'Errico here. Before you start going in-depth into applications, you should probably develop a good foundation of how to use MATLAB. I suggest you start with the free MATLAB Onramp tutorial to quickly learn the essentials of MATLAB. After that, well, I don't see any of our self-paced online courses that seem tailored towards medical applications, but depending on what you're interested in doing some of the general Data Import and Analysis or Modeling and Simulation courses may be useful.

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[Star Strider]

I have not seen any posts here on the details of cardiovascular dynamics. I am not certain if Simscape Fluids can help you with this, since I see no specific mention of blood in the Isothermal Liquid Library.

I would do a Web search. I did and discovered Blood flow dynamics and vascular fluid mechanics (this has since been retracted, however the references are still available although 20 of the 30 references were not varifiable), Blood Flow - Matlab | PDF | Hemodynamics | Fluid Dynamics, Blood flow dynamics and vascular fluid mechanics, and a book Biomedical Fluid Dynamics: Flow and Form (ISBN: 9780198812586).

I suggest that you search using 'blood (physical properties) (fluid dynamics} matlab' to see what you can find that may be relevant.

EDIT -- (25 Dec 2025 at 14:41)

I just now discovered: SimVascular: Cardiovascular Modeling and Simulation and Cardiovascular System in SimscapeTM with ECMO Machine

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