Beating Heart

You should only give enough air to make the chest rise, don't give to much air, you don't want to over-expand the dogs lungs. Circulation: To check a dogs heart is working properly you need to feel for a heartbeat or pulse, to do this you can place your hand in the armpit of the dog and feel its chest; you should be able to feel the heart beating. CPR Cardiopulmonary…

disease of the heart muscle. In cardiomyopathy, the heart muscle becomes enlarged and rigid. As this disease worsens, the heart becomes weaker and is less able to pump enough of blood for the body. Cardiomyopathy can be inherited from your parents or close relatives, due to a change in some of the genes in heart muscle proteins. It can also be acquired over time as a result of smoking, diabetes, high blood pressure or some other disease or condition. Cardiomyopathy can lead to heart failure,…

they're heart quits beating. CPR means Cardiopulmonary Recitation. The word cardio means heart, pulmonary means lung, and recitate means bring back to life. People usually stop breathing if they are drowning, suffocating, choking, electrocuted, or if they have a heart attack. CPR helps maintain blood flow to the brain and heart, and it opens up air ways. People don’t realize the importance of CPR, until they’re in a situation where someone stops breathing or if their heart stops beating.…

just in the hospital, IV site are at a high risk because it is a line into a blood vessel. If the air embolism is not resolved it can make its way to your heart and cause it to stop. If an air embolism is in an artery it is extremely severe, because it can cut off blood flow to organs like the brain. When this happens it can cause a stroke or a heart attack it just depends on which part of the body it is located. An air embolism can also be cause if there has been damage to the lungs. If you are…

The term fibrillation is explained as a very rapid irregular contractions of the muscle fibers of the heart resulting in a lack of synchronism between heartbeat and pulse. There are two common fibrillations in the heart known as atrial fibrillation and ventricular fibrillation. While they are both fibrillations, ventricular fibrillation poses a far more fatal outcome than atrial fibrillation. This paper will be used to examine what causes the difference in these fibrillations and the difference…

Daphnia’s Heart Rate. Introduction: The purpose of this experiment was to compare the resting heart rate of a Daphnia, to its heart rate after 5 different substances were tested on it: Aspirin, Nasal Spray, Alka Seltzer, Coffee and Tea. Daphnia’s are often used as an experimental animal in lab settings because they are small, have a short life span and are easily maintained, only needing water to survive. For this specific lab, it was important that we have a test subject whose…

history and find other causes of heart failure. (The signs and symptoms for heart failure dyspnea, fluid retention, peripheral edema, nausea.) The most helpful tools of the diagnosis is echocardiogram. The chest x-ray identify the heart enlargement. Character’s : • Heart failure symptoms, including unexplained right heart failure • Arrhythmias • Conduction abnormalities • Thromboembolic events • angina pectoris managements : Heart-Healthy Lifestyle Changes 1-Heart-healthy eating : •…

during the process of the Cardiac Cycle when the heart beats Post Cardiac Cycle poster and vocab on board Lesson (5 minutes) Ask students to place their right hand over their heart and to make a mental note of what they feel 1 minute Ask students have they ever wondered why they heart beats slower or more quickly during certain events? 'Lub-dub,' 'lub-dub' - This is the familiar sound of the heartbeat. You can think about the things that make your heart race, like watching a scary movie or…

everything they need, the heart needs to be beating. The cardiovascular system makes sure the levels of substances in the blood is constant by transporting these substances as circumstances change. The heart is located in the lower part of the mediastinum between the lungs. Most people think the heart lies on the left side of the body but if the chest was cut in half, two thirds of the heart would be on the left and one third would actually be on the right side of the body. The heart is…

the power and delicate parts of the heart in different creatures. In the reading he breaks it into four different ideas. In paragraphs one through four he talks about hummingbirds. In paragraph one and two he talks about how the first white explorers found the hummingbirds and called them flying jewels. He explained that the hummingbird's heart beat very fast but is very delicate because when they don’t rest or get something to eat their heart might stop beating. In paragraphs three and four he…