Beating Heart

skeletal system to perform many key motor functions. It aids in digestion and allows the heart to work. Some muscles are autonomous, or work by themselves, while others are controlled by the nervous system. Four tissues/organs of the muscular system are cardiac muscle, skeletal muscle, smooth muscle and the heart. Cardiac muscle is they type of muscle that makes up the heart and is autonomous. The heart is a muscle that is crucial to survival. Smooth muscle lines the inner digestive tract.…

Valvular Heart Disease Luke White – C14367136 Introduction In this report I will discuss valvular heart disease. Firstly I will discuss the disease itself, what it is, what its symptoms are and what effect it can have on a person if it is left untreated. Then I will examine the role of the Clinical Measurement Scientist in the diagnosis, monitoring and treatment of this disease. I will then go on to write about the importance of professionalism as a clinical measurement scientist. This will…

Distress. Eustress is the positive kind of stress, like that connected with getting married or buying a home. Distress is the complete opposite, like filing for divorce or unemployment. A stressful life can contribute to the development of cancer, heart attacks, and strokes. When an individual is subjected to stress, their immune system is suppressed. It is especially dangerous when the individual already has cancer cells in their system, no matter how many. Their body will not be able to fight…

Description of the incident During the clinical day on the Intensive Care Unit (ICU) care was provided for a patient with respiratory problem. He had a history of Hypertension, Coronary artery disease, Gastroesophageal reflux disease, Diabetes Mellitus, Hyperlipidemia and was a smoker and consumer of alcohol but reported to have quit 5 years ago. The patient had come in with a chief complaint of shortness of breath. Upon evaluation through chest x-ray and cultures, the patient revealed to have…

organs of the body, with particular interest in the arteries, veins, and the heart chambers. It is used to detect abnormalities, including narrowing (stenosis) or blockages in the blood vessels (called occlusions) throughout the circulatory system and in some organs. It is the x-ray (radiographic) study of the blood vessels. Pre Surgery Your doctor may recommend coronary angiography if you have signs or symptoms of Coronary Heart Disease (CHD). Signs and symptoms include Angina is unexplained…

presented. b. What changed in terms of physiology (i.e., heart function, lung function, etc.) with your treatment? How did these changes serve the needs of your body? In terms of physiology, my treatments displayed that the experimentee’s heart worked harder (increased heart rate, in attempt to lower heart rate) and to adjust the body’s core temperature to optimal levels. These changes served the needs of my body in the way that my heart began to run more than usual to adjust my vital signs to…

with means high blood pressure rate is not high on Vietnamese people. “By prevention, they generally mean taking care of oneself through exercise, proper diet, and sufficient sleep. The notion of prevention relates to living a good life (National Heart, Lung, & Blood Institute, 2003, p.6.).” There is a Vietnamese belief that bad health or illness is just part of density or one’s fate. Vietnamese people believe that illness foreshadows negative fortune or bad luck. Vietnamese people do not want…

The ECG/EKG When most people think of heart tests, they think of the ECG. ECG stands for electrocardiogram. It's also called an EKG, from the German elektrokardiogram. Although it may look like an ECG is recording heartbeats, it's not. In fact, it records the electrical activity (the electrical triggers, if you will) that presage the actual heartbeat. The mechanical beats follow the electrical triggers by about a tenth of a second -- unless, of course, there's a problem. Or to state it in…

Hearts beating faster than ever, blood flowing throughout my body, lusting oxygen. Breath in and out. Realizing the amount of weight above me, I freeze. Knowing that if I was to drop the weight it would crush me. A rep I do is like a crusade for victory between my mind and body against the weight above me. Chest burning while gasping for breath I push the weight up. Continuously repeating the process knowing it'll only get harder and harder; my body screeching like tires on a road when stomping…

Congestive heart failure (CHF) is the condition in which the heart cannot pump blood the nutrients effectively to the body’s organs. Excessive fluid buildup is common in the lungs and/or other such organs and body parts. In many cases of congestive heart failure, the fluid builds up in the lowest part of the body such as the feet referred as pedal edema or the lower back known as sacral edema if the patient is bedridden. This swelling is caused when the heart slows and the blood begins to back…