Basilar artery

and heart strain/chest pain which are some of the consequences of meth use. The reason for these symptoms is because meth is a powerful stimulant that can will speed up the heart while constricting blood vessels. The constriction of our patient’s arteries and veins resulted in intolerable chest pain and pressure. Vital signs such as temperature, pulse rate, blood pressure, and respiration rate were collected with the lab data. As for our patient, his heart rate and blood pressure where higher…

Even though complications of fistula access are far less than a graft or a catheter, they do occur and need to be addressed. Complications occur in approximately one-third of fistulas and include: aneurysms, infection, stenosis, thrombosis, steal syndrome and heart failure. These complications have historically been classified as early and late failure. The etiology of both early and late are somewhat similar because if the cause is not diagnosed early on it may progress and lead to late access…

Fetal Circulatory Routes Fetal circulation is the circulatory system of a fetus. This is also connected to the mother’s circulatory system. The mother’s body will do all the work that baby’s lungs will do once it is born. This circulation includes the umbilical cord and the blood vessels that are within the mother’s placenta. This carries the fetal blood. When the blood travels through the placenta it will pick up oxygen and become red. The blood will first go through the placenta, by then…

The mitral valve is a valve that allows blood flow from one chamber of the heart, the left atrium, to another called the left ventricle. In mitral valve prolapse, the valve slips backward due to the abnormal size of or damage to the mitral valve tissues. Mitral valve prolapse is a common cause of a heart murmur caused by a "leaky" heart valve. For most people with mitral valve prolapse, the cause is unknown. It can be caused by conditions in which cartilage is abnormal (connective tissue…

The patient has a sitting posture with a posterior pelvic tilt. He has an excessive thoracic kyphosis in sitting and no lumbar lordosis. He sits with his knee extended on the left side, and his ankles inverted with weight resting on the distal to the lateral malleolus on his right foot. On the left foot, his weight is distributed mainly on his calcaneus. The standing posture consisted of a forward head posture with an increased thoracic kyphosis. The patient spent most of his time on the…

Atrial Fibrillation is the most common type of arrhythmia. An arrhythmia is an irregular heart rhythm, where the heart beats too fast or too slow. In order to understand what Atrial Fibrillation is it is best to understand the hearts internal electrical system. The hearts internal electrical system controls the rate and rhythm of the heartbeat. With each heartbeat an electrical signal spreads from the top of the heart to the bottom. As the signal travels, it causes the heart to contract and pump…

Heart Failure is a condition that develops over time and can be caused by many different heart problems. Heart failure is most often a chronic condition. There is several classifications under this condition for example in systolic failure the heart cannot contract adequately to eject sufficient blood volume. In diastolic heart failure there is impaired ventricular relaxation and impaired filling creating the inability of the heart to fill with blood or to pump enough blood to the body to meet…

The cardiovascular system operates our body by distributing and circulating blood to parts of our body. The blood in our body contains red and white blood cells, plasma, and platelets. Those are then distributed through the body to the pulmonary circulation. The human heart is the engine of the pulmonary circulation (Farley,2012). Blood is then delivered to our heart. Waste from the cells of our body is removed and blood is distributed to our vines (Farley, 2012). Therefore when we engage in…

Inhalation is the process of air being drawn into the lungs. During the process of inhalation the external intercostal muscles contract, therefore pulling the chest wall upwards and outwards, these intercostal muscles are between the ribs. As the air is drawn into the lungs, this causes for the thoracic cavity volume to increases, during inspiration the diaphragm also contracts, therefore moving the diaphragm downwards. There are three more muscles that contract during the process of inspiration…

8)Thermoregulation is the process your body goes through to keep your body's temperature regulated to 60-38°C. 9)The hypothalamus is the portion of the brain that monitors and regulates the body's temperature. 10a)The body will expand blood flow in the skin and have the sweat glands produce more sweat. 10b)The body will restrict blood flow in the skin and have muscles shiver to generate and keep heat. 11a)The stimulus is the hypothalamus sensing to little heat in the body and the response is…