clot inside the body. Other times‚ blood will pool in a vein due to improper blood circulation‚ and the stagnant blood will clot. Cracks in cholesterol plaques on the artery walls can also trigger clotting in the blood. Several problems can occur when blood clots form inside the body. First‚ the blood clot blocks the vein or artery‚ thus narrowing the passage and making it harder for blood to
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point where it starts to damage the vascular arteries. Saturated fats known as “bad fats” and LDL
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hick as the wall of the right ventricle. The valves were ‘flaps’ attached by ‘strings’ to the heart muscle. When a finger was poked through the atria you could see it coming through the left ventricle. When a finger was poked through the pulmonary artery we saw the finger tip poked through right ventricle. Interpretation of Results: The atria looked like ‘flaps’ because there was on blood flow because the heart had been removed. The septum was diagonal not straight up and down because the left
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What nursing interventions are appropriate for Mrs. J. at the time of her admission? Drug therapy is started for Mrs. J. to control her symptoms. What is the rationale for the administration of each of the following medications? At the start of her admission‚ Mrs. J is going through many complications throughout most of her systems. I would follow the rules of ABC and control her respiratory problem first. Mrs. J has an oxygen saturation of 82% and is probably going to continue dropping. She will
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Coronary heart disease is a common term for the buildup of plaque in the heart’s arteries that could lead to heart attack. But what about coronary artery disease? Is there a difference? The short answer is often no — health professionals frequently use the terms interchangeably. However‚ coronary heart disease ‚ or CHD‚ is actually a result of coronary artery disease‚ or CAD‚ said Edward Fisher‚ M.D.‚ Ph.D.‚ an American Heart Association volunteer who is the Leon H. Charney Professor of Cardiovascular
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Heart disease is a term used to describe a range of diseases that affect the hearts‚ from the blood vessel‚ such as coronary artery disease‚ and heart infections the term “Heart Disease is often used interchangeably with‚ cardiovascular disease” (MayoClinic‚ 2012). Which is narrowed or blocked blood vessels that can lead to a heart attacks‚ or stroke plague build ups in the arteries heart disease is the number one cause of death for men and women in the U.S‚ heart disease doesn’t just affect older adults
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Atherosclerosis‚ also known as the hardening of arteries‚ is a condition where plaque builds up in the arteries. The plaque builds up inside the arteries and either partially or completely blocks the blood flow. Diseases like coronary heart disease angina‚ and chronic kidney disease can occur as a result of atherosclerosis. When atherosclerosis affects the arteries in the heart‚ it is known as a coronary heart disease‚ and coronary heart disease is the number one killers of Americans. Atherosclerosis
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Cardiovascular Physiology and Blood Pressure July 27‚ 2009 BY 409L - LW Blake Perry Lab Partners: Jennifer Rastegar and John Riopka Abstract This experiment was designed to observe a baseline heart rate and blood pressure and to examine various modifications of the two. This experiment utilized both the BiopacPro and PhysioEx computer programs. The PhysioEx program was used to simulate a heart rate and modifications to it. The BiopacPro program was used to monitor a volunteer’s blood pressure;
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Lab Report: Exercise 5: Cardiovascular Physiology Type the answers to the following questions into the document. Save the file as YourLastName_Ex5LabReport.rtf and submit for grading via the associated assignment link. Activity 1: Heart Sounds 1. What is the cardiac cycle? The cardiac cycle is one complete heart beat. During the cycle each atrium and ventricle will contract and relax once. THe contraction of the chamber is called systole and the relaxation is called diastole. The average
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blood that passes through the vessel. All blood vessels contain a hollow area called the lumen through which blood is able to flow. Around the lumen is the wall of the vessel‚ which may be thin in the case of capillaries or very thick in the case of arteries. All blood vesseles are lined with a thin layer of simple squamous epithelium known as the
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