First Blood

and finishes first. That individual is breathing harshly and if one could see internally, the heart is pumping blood rapidly as well. This is known as the Cardiovascular System. It contains not only the heart, but also the blood vessels, blood and much more which will be further explained in greater detail. The venous system takes blood back to the heart. It flows from the capillaries to the veins. The biggest vein in the body is the inferior vena cava. The superior cava carries blood from the…

coagulation system. It is used when the patients are having surgery, to prevent problems due to the formation of blood clots in the vessels. In the body, antithrombin blocks thrombin, a substance that plays a central role in the process of blood clotting. Patients who have congenital antithrombin deficiency have low blood antithrombin levels, which may result in a reduced capacity of the blood to resist clotting. This increases the risk of clots forming during high-risk situations. ATryn…

The first slides of the tutorial describes what is cardiovascular disease. Cardiovascular disease is an illness in the blood vessels or the heart. The presentation had a brief part of the cardiovascular system.The cardiovascular system consists of the heart and blood vessels such as, arteries, veins and capillaries. The cardiovascular system is responsible for transporting oxygen, nutrients, hormones, and cellular waste products throughout the body. The cardiovascular system is powered by the…

The various organ systems of the human body work together to maintain homeostasis. Typically, when someone hears the words organ system the first one that comes to mind is the circulatory system. The circulatory system is responsible for transporting oxygen and nutrients in the blood to nearby cells as well as helping with the removal of waste products and carrying them away in plasma. The reproductive system maintains homeostasis by regulating the Ph of the vagina in the female reproductive…

caused ischemic stroke. Description of Pathology: Ischemic strokes account for 87% of all stroke incidents, making this type of stroke the most common. Ischemic strokes occur as a result of a blood clot plugging or obstructing an artery carrying blood to the brain. This keeps oxygen and nutrient rich blood from flowing into the brain. If this blockage persists for more than a few minutes the brain cells may begin to die and serious damage can be done. Due to this, immediate medical treatment…

glomeruli located in the kidneys. This inflammation causes to protein and other substances to leak into the urine from the blood. As the inflammation continues the kidneys may become less effective and cannot filter out waste products, such as water and salt from the blood. This can eventually lead to kidney failure. When this occurs, waste can accumulate in high levels in the blood and the will then retain salt and water. After large amounts of protein are lost in the urine, you can also retain…

The virus was first documented discovered by Dr. Louis Montagnier, who resided in France in 1983. Although, the cases identified in the United States were not the first known cases after physician’s started taking a closer look at undiagnosed cases. Robert R. a teenager in St. Louis in 1969 entered the hospital with shortness of breath and infections, and passed shortly after (Bell). Additionally, in Central Africa in the middle of the 1970’s, there were reports of people deteriorating, and…

Congestive Heart Failure (CHF) is characterized by a decrease in cardiac output (CO) and the consequent decrease in blood flow throughout the body leads to many widespread effects. For example, when CO is too low, the body starts to prioritize and will decrease blood flow to certain organs, such as the digestive viscera, in order to maintain needed blood flow in organs such as the brain. As a result, a person with CHF will have issues with cachexia and malnutrition because the body is not…

which were blood, phlegm, black bile, and yellow bile. In addition, each humor embodied a specific quality; hot, cold, dry, or wet. However, Galen rejected the notion that anatomy founded the basis of medicine and instead adopted the theological belief that “nature does nothing in vain” to explain the structure and function of the body. Galen and his successors taught that the liver produced venous blood from food that was ingested. It was subsequently distributed to the rest of the blood…

right atrium is the chamber which receives blood from the body that has been depleted from its oxygen and pumps it to the right ventricle. The right ventricle then pumps the blood from the right atrium over to the pulmonary artery which as the name would suggest means it goes to the lungs and the oxygen depleted blood is once again oxygenated. The left atrium of the heart then receives the blood that has been oxygenated to the left ventricle. Finally the blood arrives at the left ventricle, the…