Fantastic Voyage Assignment

Fantastic Voyage
HS130-39R1AU
Unit #4 Assignment
Kaplan University
February 5th, 2014

Fantastic Voyage
Good afternoon everyone, my name is Ash and I will be reporting to about my journey to check out the bacterium in the lower lobe of the right lung. I will be in my mini submarine Kim08. My assistants are going to shrink me down to a very small size that cannot be seen by the human eye and then inject me into the right femoral vein of Alex a female who is in good health. She seems to be having pain when she breaths in so were going to check it out and see what is going on in in the lower lobe of her right lung. I’m going to provide you with as much detailed information on what I see on my journey
The reason I have to be coated with a substance that makes me invisible is because anytime anything foreign enters the body it automatically tries’s to kill it. I am now going to enter the femoral vein now by being injected. Femoral means thigh in medical terminology (Thibodaux &Patton, 2008). Since the femoral vein is located posterior to the artery it makes it easier to enter (Pal, 2008). Also because I’m in a vein that I will be bouncing around because veins have a bounce to them. I’m traveling up through the external and common iliac veins. Now I’ve ran into the interior vena cava. The inferior vena cave is one of the largest veins that carry blood to the right atrium (Thibodeau & Patton, 2008). From the right atrium I’m going to travel through the tricuspid until I reach the right ventricle. The right ventricle receives deoxygenated blood from the right atrium and then after it goes through the pulmonary vale and artery it is pumped to the lungs (Heatline, 2014). Arteries have a larger muscle than veins because blood is under high pressure in them. Now I’m going through the pulmonary semilunar valve to the pulmonary artery and now I’m in the lower lobe of the right lung, now it is time to check out what is going on in this lung. The right lung has three lobes at top of the lung is the apex which is located
It feels a little strange to be normal size because I’ve been small for so long. I will say that it was very interesting to be able to have this experience. It was strange to travel from the femoral vein all the way up to the lung to describe what went on when bacteria gets in it, and then to shoot out the nostril. It was nice to able to help other people understand what goes on when there is bacteria in the body. Thank you, Alex for allowing me to take this journey in my mini submarine through your