When Your Heart Stops Beating

should have given him an A in her class because it was a very complex class. Vivian’s end- of –life wishes wasn’t said but it was implied she desired to go outside like her professor told her, and have some fun outside of the library. She also desired that she had been a more humane teacher. These were little wishes we had wanted but didn’t have. Ms. Vivian actually had two types of wishes which are: her wish about her social life and herself as a teacher and the other was what she wanted to do if her heart stopped beating. While Ms. Vivian and her primary nurse, Susie, were eating popsicles Susie told Professor Bearing that she had to think about her code status if her heart stopped beating (558). She had two choices the first one is she can be “full code”, which means they will call a blue code if her heart stops beating and resuscitate her and put her in Intensive Care until she is stable. The second one is that she can be “DNR” meaning Do Not Resuscitate; so if Professor Bearing heart stopped they will just let it. Professor Bearing knew that at some point in time she would have to die, but she couldn’t bear the pain as Dr. Kelekian thought. Vivian maybe chose “DNR” because she couldn’t deal with the pain; the disease doesn’t make…

may look like. When he asked me if I would like to go on a date I was very excited. My heart was pounding…

What is the SCA? What Can Cause your heart to stop beating? We hear a lot about heart disease and its causes that considered from our wrong daily habits. Most of them can be treated and coexist with, but there is a disease that affects the heart and makes it stop pumping blood through the body without any introductions or previous symptoms which would lead to the death of the injured person on the spot. This disease, known as sudden cardiac arrest (SCA) • What is the sudden cardiac arrest?…

of them can be treated but others could kill you. Heart disease is one of the diseases that has different types. Some of the diseases don’t kill people but some are dangerous. Heart disease can be risky depending on the type of the disease that you have. The heart in our body is what keeps us going. If our heart stops beating, we pass out and die. There are many diseases that are related to the heart. There are three different kinds of vessels in our body, arteries are one of the three, and the…

Cardiac Arrests are mostly triggered by abnormal heart rhythm called arrhythmia. They happen without warning, right after symptoms. Every 90 seconds a person dies from sudden Cardiac Arrest. A Heart Attack is often mistakenly used to describe a Cardiac Arrest. The Adult Chain of Survival begins by recognizing it and activating the emergency response system. Next,begin early CPR with emphasis on chest compressions. Then, use the AED rapid defibrillation. Then, get advanced medical. To end the…

alive. Put yourself in the doctor’s position, they have a patient whose heart is working but their brain is completely dead and non-functioning. You diagnosed them with being brain dead and the family doesn’t want to believe it, because it’s their baby girl or baby boy. They see the heart still operating properly so they see them as alive just without the brain. Your call is to take them off life-support, but the family disagrees with you and has them kept on life support. They…

What is Cardiovascular Disease? (Heart & Blood Vessels) A heart and blood vessel disease (heart disease) is multiple problems within the heart one major one is called atherosclerosis. Atherosclerosis is a heart condition caused by a substance called plaque that build up on the walls of the heart arteries. This plaque buildup can narrow the hearts arteries making it harder for blood to flow through. When this problem starts to happen it can cause clotting which is able to stop blood flow and…

is a 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…

One’s Marriage, The Eye and Faith When texting someone, emojis are straightforward, with a laughing emoji symbolizing laughter and clocks representing a clock. On a heart rate monitor, a flashing heart would symbolize the human heart beating in real time. In short stories however, symbols are more ambiguous. The symbols need more time to be identified and explained to those who do not see them. The symbols in “The Story of an Hour” by Kate Chopin, “The Tell-Tale Heart” by Edgar Allan Poe and…

It’s late afternoon, the hot sun of May is beating down, and the screams and shouts of the crowd surrounds you. The ground underfoot is springy and fresh, spikes cutting into it with ease. Your heart races in anticipation for what is to come. All you can see is straight down the lane, right at the finish line. The whistle blows and your heart stops and you think, how did I get here? It started three years ago. I entered middle school full of excitement and enthusiasm for just this moment.…