Queen of Hearts

Deep Brain Stimulation Deep brain stimulation is a surgery that involves the implanting of electrodes in certain areas of the patient’s brain. Electrical impulses are produced by these electrodes to regulate any abnormal impulses in the brain. These electrical impulses can also affect certain chemicals and cells in the brain. The amount of stimulation that the brain receives in this procedure is controlled by a device, much like a pacemaker, placed under the patient’s skin in the upper chest. A…

We found that cyclist Lance Armstrong was guilty of using EPO on several accounts. Erythropoietin, also know as EPO, is a drug used medically to treat anemia. This advancement in medicine has helped save lives but unfortunately professional athletes, like Armstrong, have used it to help improve their performance. The earliest claims of doping was with Gastone Nencini in the 1960 Tour De France. Around this time athletes would store blood and wait for the body to replace the loss blood.…

heart’s role for the entire body is not only limited to pumping blood. It also needs its own blood supply to be able to perform its several functions. The process of the heart managing its own blood supply is known as coronary circulation. The walls situated in the heart have systemic blood vessels. These exist to meet the needs of the heart for blood supply. Oxygenated blood is brought to the myocardium via the left and right coronary arteries. They are also responsible for bringing the…

The patient /client is a 45-year-old R handed male nurse reviewer who has been diagnosed to have a right tennis elbow. He's been having pain on his right lateral elbow for about five months now. The client denies any trauma or known predisposing injury that initiated his problem. The patient spends a lot of time at work in front of the computer –which involves a lot of mouse scrolling and typing. He also likes to play tennis and wash his car in his spare time. He noted the feeling that his grip…

driving. Would you want to be on the road with such a driver? It also might not be good to have someone like that working for you, or for you to try to work yourself with so little sleep. A Good Night's Sleep Optimizes Your Brain Function The National Heart, Lung and Blood Institute, reports a good night sleep helps you prepare for the next day. This is because during sleep your brain forms new pathways to help you learn. This could be helpful in all circumstances, whether you are refreshing…

Forty eight million surgical inpatient procedures were done in 2015, and the number has steadily gone up since then. Out of those forty eight million, 7.3 million were for the heart. That means that six of every ten surgeries are for the heart (“data”). The type of surgeon that studies and performs surgeries on the heart and lungs is called a cardiothoracic surgeon. As cardiothoracics (cardio) grows, there happened to be a point when it was not commonly known. Since cardio was not commonly known…

Heavy Drinking and Increased Cardiovascular Risk The article ‘Heavy drinking may raise cardiovascular risk by aging the arteries’ by Ana Sandoiu establishes that the excessive alcohol abuse could potentially lead to cardiovascular problems in the future. In this news article, alcohol consumption is an environmental factor, and arterial stiffness is the developmental outcome. This news article is based on the research ‘Twenty-five-year alcohol consumption trajectories and their association with…

hot environment are at risk of heat stress. Circulating blood to the skin and through sweating is the key to get rid of extra heat to balance a stable internal temperature. When the body is not able to cool itself, the body’s core temperature and heart rate increase and several heat-related illnesses could occur [1]. Appropriate clothing is encouraged to wear during working in extreme heat environment. However, protective clothing or equipment could severely impede heat exchange by sweating. In…

completely is to stop using the drug completely. For men it can make you much much bigger but it can cause lady like features such as breast development in men. If you take steroids regularly it can cause up to 47 percent more of a chance to have a heart attack. Steroids cause damage to the liver in various way such as liver cancer, and liver infections from not being properly used. Bone loss and weakened tendons are in 6/10 steroid users. All of these side effects can be stopped if you are to…

Mechanism Atherogenesis is the developmental process of athermanous plaques. It is characterized by a remodeling of arteries leading to sub endothelial accumulation of fatty substances called plaques. The buildup of an athermanous plaque is a slow process, developed over a period of several years through a complex series of cellular events occurring within the arterial wall and in response to a variety of local vascular circulating factors. One recent hypothesis , leukocyte, such as momocyte or…