Heart disease is a leading cause of mortality around the world. These diseases can range from coronary artery disease‚ blood vessel diseases‚ to congenital heart defects. Many patients that are affected by these diseases are treated with pills that have hazardous side effects‚ surgeries that induce trauma to the patient’s body (stents for vascular intervention‚ or balloon angioplasty‚ etc) or heart transplants that are dependent on the patient’s immune system. The bodies of these patients under go
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Liliana Mojica Morley English II 32414 The Word “Heart” in Macbeth As Theodore Parker once said‚ “Wealth and want equally harden the human heart.” All hearts start as all hearts do‚ with love and compassion just as they should. But as a heart grows and develops with the world and people around it‚ it is affected. The human heart will grow new feelings towards things and people. This changes the definition of what you thought of as a heart. Heart can be thought of as a persons feelings; lo
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The Human Heart 1. The average adult heart beats 72 times a minute; 100‚000 times a day; 3‚600‚000 times a year; and 2.5 billion times during a lifetime.f 2. Though weighing only 11 ounces on average‚ a healthy heart pumps 2‚000 gallons of blood through 60‚000 miles of blood vessels each day.c 3. A kitchen faucet would need to be turned on all the way for at least 45 years to equal the amount of blood pumped by the heart in an average lifetime.a 4. The volume of blood pumped by the heart can vary
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What happened to the R-R interval and heart rate after exercise? After exercise the R-R interval increased steadily from 0.48 to 0.68 seconds‚ while the heart rate BPM decreased steadily from 123 to 76; both trending back towards the resting values. What happened to the T-P interval during exercise? Outline what this means for ventricular filling time. During exercise there was a significant drop in the T-P interval which then steadily increased when exercise was completed. The T-P interval represents
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Short Answer Questions: 1. Dr. Baker spends a long time listening to (auscultating) Caleb’s heart. a. Where on the thoracic surface do you auscultate to the tricuspid‚ mitral (bicuspid)‚ pulmonary‚ and aortic valves? For the tricuspid valves‚ the sounds of the heart are typically heard in the right sternal margin of the 5th intercostal space. For the Mitral (bicuspid) valve‚ sounds are heard over the heart apex‚ in the 5th intercostal space. This is in line with the middle of the clavicle. (Lutchman
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for the last ten years and obesity. Lab results: triglycerides 350‚ and LDL 280 with Total Cholesterol: 250. HgbA1c 8.5 .No MI changes in EKG and Chest X ray that shows hyperinflation of lungs. Weight: 230 pounds‚ height 5 feet 8 inches.BP 160/88‚ heart rate 6 and respiratory rate 16. No fever‚ T 98.0
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builds up in the arteries. The plaque builds up inside the arteries and either partially or completely blocks the blood flow. Diseases like coronary heart disease angina‚ and chronic kidney disease can occur as a result of atherosclerosis. When atherosclerosis affects the arteries in the heart‚ it is known as a coronary heart disease‚ and coronary heart disease is the number one killers of Americans. Atherosclerosis is a progressive disease that starts in childhood. For some people the disease quickly
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filter water and certain waste products from the blood‚ in the kidneys. In an amount of time‚ the amino acids and proteins are able to escape into the urine through pores which is an indication of kidney dysfunction‚ which later can become a kidney failure. The damages that occur in the kidney are permanent. Kidney transplant might be needed to survive when patients start to experience swelling in the legs. Diabetic Neuropathy‚ the areas where the nerves are damaged‚ are very common. It’s caused
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Your Heart Works [pic] Your heart is a pump. It keeps blood moving around your body. The blood delivers oxygen and nutrients to all parts of your body‚ and carries away unwanted carbon dioxide and other waste products. The heart has four chambers - two on the left side and two on the right. The two upper chambers are called the atria‚ and the two lower chambers are called the ventricles. The two sides of the heart are divided by a muscular wall called the septum. Each side of the heart has
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About 11 years ago‚ my grandpa was diagnosed with congestive heart failure‚ a condition in which the heart’s function as a pump is inadequate to meet the body’s needs. It is a very serious situation‚ and it is very scary to see someone you love be diagnosed with it. Some early symptoms of congestive heart failure include fatigue‚ shortness of breath‚ frequent urination‚ excessive amount of coughing and extreme swelling in the ankles‚ legs‚ and in the feet. You may notice that some things that
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