Sudden cardiac death

Supraventricular Tachycardia, Adult Supraventricular tachycardia (SVT) is a kind of abnormal heartbeat. It makes the heart beat very fast and then beat at a normal speed. A normal heart beats 60 to 100 times a minute. This condition can make your heart beat more than 150 times a minute. Episodes of a fast heartbeat can be scary but they are usually not dangerous. They can lead to problems if: They happen often. They last a long time. Symptoms of this condition include: A…

how to administer the possibly life saving measure. All high schools should require a cpr course to be taking in order to graduate because Cpr saves lives, most cardiac arrest situations occur at home, and so they should be able to tell the difference between cardiac arrest and a heart attack. About 900 americans die everyday due to cardiac arrest According to the new york times. when you know how to perform Cpr you might be saving a relative's life, loved ones, or even a stranger. One of the…

Muscle cells play a very important role in movement of our body. There are three types of muscle cells in vertebrates: skeletal, cardiac and smooth. We are mainly going to be concerned with skeletal muscle for this particular experiment. The skeletal muscle is responsible for the voluntary movement of whole body or body parts, manipulation of external objects, support for our skeleton (Sherwood, 2010, p257). Skeletal muscles have a striated structures of alternating light and dark bands…

Sudden Unexpected Infant Death (SUID) is the sudden unforeseen death of an infant without a clear cause, which remains unexplained until the cause of death is thoroughly investigated (AAP Task Force on SIDS, 2016). Investigations for the cause of sudden infant deaths can be done by fully reviewing the infant’s clinical history, by a complete autopsy or an examination of the death scene (Athanasakis, Karavasiliadou & Styliadis, 2011). SUID is a leading cause of infant mortality in the United…

muscular protein called dystrophin. Dystrophin is a skeletal muscle protein. This protein is known for keeping the muscle cells intact. With the defect in the protein, it causes rapid muscular deterioration. This protein is also found in the cardiac muscles and the brain. The dystrophin gene is located on chromosome X on the short arm. It contains more than 3685 amino acids. While it only accounts for a little of the proteins, its effects are very important. Duchenne and Becker the cells…

Exercise effects the human body in many fascinating ways; as it causes the body to adapt and alter to aid the body’s stimulation. Take when carrying out the Harvard step test practical. This test is where a person carries out a period of exercise for a certain length of time and then records their heart rate before and for so long after the period. This shows how fit and healthy the heart is by showing how long it takes for the heart to go back to a regular resting pulse rate. “The…

Introduction: The heart rate of an animal can be used as an indicator to identify when a stimulus evokes a reaction from the animal. Specifically in the case of humans’, there tends to be the cognitive ability to physically withhold a reaction from a stimulus and mask the involuntary reaction. However, the heart rate reacts immediately after a stimulus, and is not reigned in or controlled cognitively, so could the heart potentially be a true indicator of an individuals reaction to a stimulus?…

disease of the muscles that ultimately leads to a shortened life of every 1/3,600 males. In addition to the muscles being targeted, I learned that death does not just occur from being confined to a wheelchair and having atrophied muscles, the respiratory system eventually shuts down from the lack of muscle in the heart at diaphragm and that is why death occurs. Learning about genetics and specifically DMD, will impact the way I treat patients, because they were born with that specific disease…

harm to the patient. The nurse made a poor decision when she did not give the medication as ordered, and when she failed to report a continual increase in the patient’s heart rate, and when she failed to ensure documentation of the items such as the cardiac monitor when the patient was transferred to the telemetry unit. All of the negligence resulted in the demise of the patient. The intensive care unit nurse also stated in the case that she was not experienced enough to be working in the unit,…

All heartbeats consist of a mechanical component and an electrical component. The heartbeat is created by cardiac depolarization caused by electrical currents that induce muscle contraction. The electrical component of the heartbeat begins in the Sinoatrial (SA) Node and its function is to send electrical impulses that stimulate your heart to beat, and these impulses induce the atria to contract. As the atria contract, the impulse moves on to the Atrioventricular (AV) node which leads the…