Congenital heart disease

cardioversion. Stroke and death are the main problems with these surgeries. What happens if these procedures don’t work? Is there another option for the patients to receive any treatment? If the heart is shocked three or four times in one cardioversion setting, how will the heart handle this treatment the next time the heart needs to be shocked? Is there a definite cure out there? Since antiarrhythmic drugs are potentially dangerous, is there another type of drug out there that has the same…

cardiorespiratory endurance. This is because it makes your heart beat faster and supplies oxygen to working muscles. Also when you run for a vast distance your body may start to become fatigued and you find it harder to breathe. Improving this will assist you to run a longer time without feeling tired. b. Aerobics and using the treadmill use cardiorespiratory endurance because due its high level intensity movements and how to your heart beats harder and faster and blood supply is also harder. …

Previously I have used both breathing exercises and progressive muscle relaxation to fall asleep easier and attempt to relieve some stress. Before both attempts of these relaxation exercises, I was at yoga so my body was already very relaxed. Neither of the exercises were difficult for me but I struggle more with concentrating during PMR. In both sessions of the breathing exercises, I was able to get deeply into my headspace and feel free of stress or anything else. It really helped me focus…

opened the door I saw his face, and his body. It looked like he just had his stomach ripped out, and he face bit by a million dogs. “what is wrong mister, are you alright?” I yelled from my front porch; he just stared at me, and my body shivered and my heart dropped down to my stomach. This injured made started to run towards me, I never seen someone that hurt run so fast in my entire life. He was hideous, and looked like he was dead. He reached my door and started to growl and bang, I was…

Comminuted fractures are commonly caused by a high impact trauma or an already existing disease like osteoporosis. A high impact trauma, like a car accident, can cause a crushing force on a bone which results in the bone breaking into many pieces in a single area. On the other hand, a buckle fracture is caused by a high impact force straight…

I looked down astonished at the beating heart before me. The surgeon attempted to clarify the procedure he was performing, but I was too busy trying to detect the clear string he was sewing in and out of the heart. I was in awe of his comfort with teaching an undergraduate student how to successfully execute a coronary artery bypass surgery, as if he knew I was interested in that specialty. He explained the condition of the patient and while I did not understand the terminology, I nodded with…

to the heart, Micra is implanted directly into the patient’s heart. Some of the impact on society are: Its less invasive as the Micra is placed in the heart via a vein in the leg, which therefore means that there are no chest incisions, scars or bumps. The emerging technologies are: Most pacemakers require a device (size of tea bag) to be surgically implanted under your skin in the upper chest. The system also requires a lead to be connected to the pacemaker and is threaded into the heart.…

Atherosclerosis in the Heart The heart is one of the most unique muscles in the human body that contains many vessels and arteries. These vessels and arteries can sometimes become blocked due to an occlusion or pre-existing heart disease. The occlusion or pre-existing condition can be affected if there is a lack or decrease of oxygen being supplied to the heart muscle. Hypoxic cell injury is a mechanism where oxygen levels are decreased to the myocardial cells of the heart and results in…

years of age(1, 2). Epidemiologic studies estimated AF to be in the rage of 1-2% of the general population of the developed world. Substantial proportion in the developing countries are also affected by this emerging epidemic (3, 4). Global burden of diseases 2010 estimated that about 33.5 million people were affected with AF throughout the world indicting progressive increase in overall burden, incidence, prevalence and AF-associated mortality between 1990 and 2010(5). Prevalence in Europe is…

very captivating to me. As many of you may know, heart attacks are fatal occurrences that typically result in the death of part of a heart muscle. Recent studies at John Hopkins Medical Hospital have shown that a special sticky protein, gel that they created can help stem cells stay in or on rat hearts and restore their metabolism after transplantation. This discovery has given a new way and hope for researchers to heal the human hearts after heart attacks. This research started with the problem…