On-Site Expert Instruction: Pressure-Volume Loops
Our customizable PV Loop training provides a tailored experience designed around the expertise and needs of your team.
Available in both 1-day and 2-day formats, this training is ideal for labs utilizing admittance or conductance methodologies. The course comprehensively covers open- and closed-chest approaches, advanced surgical techniques, foundational and advanced PV theory, and much more.
Structured around the latest consensus guidelines published in the American Journal of Physiology – Heart and Circulatory Physiology, our training ensures your laboratory adheres to current best practices and standards in rodent PV loop research.
This training program is built for ADInstruments and Millar users.
Training Highlights:
- Convenient on-site instruction – our expert comes directly to your lab.
- Customizable course structure based on your experience and research objectives.
- Instruction for both admittance and conductance PV loop workflows.
- Comprehensive training on open-chest and closed-chest methodologies.
- Review of PV loop theory, equipment optimization, and data collection techniques.
- Expert instruction on microsurgical techniques and optimal surgical configurations.
- Volume calibration, occlusion procedures, and advanced data analysis methods.
- Immediate enhancement of research capability, efficiency, and accuracy.
Example Training Experience:
One-Day Format:
A single training day begins with a review of objectives and introduction to your existing PV loop setup, followed by a seminar on ideal surgical approaches and data collection best practices. After lunch, participants shift to hands-on demonstrations involving either open-chest, closed-chest, or both depending on your lab’s primary goals and protocols.
Two-Day Format:
Day one combines comprehensive seminars with guided practice on the closed-chest procedure. Day two starts with a recap, then moves to the open-chest procedure and concludes with a customized session. This allows your team to focus on additional skills such as surgical techniques, data analysis, or any other high-priority topic.
Click below to complete our questionnaire — we’ll craft a custom PV loop training experience that drives meaningful results for your team.
Alternatively, email your PV loop training requirements to [email protected], and a member of our team will help build your training experience.
Your Instructor:
Oliver Wearing, PhD
Research Associate,
Translational Integrative Physiology Laboratory,
Department of Cellular and Physiological Sciences,
Faculty of Medicine, UBC Okanagan
Dr. Oliver Wearing is a cardiovascular physiologist with deep expertise in pressure-volume (PV) loop science. He has spent over a decade refining PV loop techniques for preclinical models, generating high-resolution cardiac function data across a range of physiological and pathological states. Oliver is highly skilled in microsurgery, vascular catheterization, and telemetry, and is recognized for consistently generating high-quality, reproducible hemodynamic data.
