Vietnamese Culture and High Blood Pressure High blood pressure is one of the most serious health conditions worldwide. Often times‚ people have high blood pressure for months or even years without knowing it. Knowledge is very important when it comes to health. High blood pressure can lead to other lethal conditions such as‚ “coronary heart disease‚ heart failure‚ stroke‚ kidney failure‚ and other health problems.” ("What is high‚" 2011) There are many ways that you can avoid high blood pressure
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ADVANCED CLINICAL CONCEPTS • ARDS is an unexpected‚ catastrophic pulmonary complication occurring in a person with no previous pulmonary problems. The mortality rate is high (50%) In ARDS‚ a common laboratory finding is lowered PO2. However‚ these clients are not very responsive to high concentrations of oxygen. Think about the physiology of the lungs by remembering PEEP: Positive End Expiratory Pressure is the instillation and maintenance of small amounts of air into the alveolar sacs to prevent
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Exercise Physiology Responses To Steady-State Exercise Once an athlete has been performing continuous exercise for a period of around 20 minutes‚ their body reaches a steady-state. Continuous exercise includes all forms of exercise that have no stopping periods such as jogging‚ swimming or cycling. Examples of non-continuous exercise would be weight lifting‚ interval training and boxing. Steady state is when the body is working at a steady state it means that lactic acid removal is occurring
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Blood Pressure The function of the heart is to circulate blood around the body. The heart comprises of four chambers: Right Atrium Left Atrium Right Ventricle Left Ventricle Functionally the heart comprises of two pumps: The right atrium receives blood from the body (de-oxygenated blood) and the right ventricle pumps it into the lungs for aeration (removal of carbon dioxide and add oxygen). The left atrium receives the oxygenated blood from the lungs and the left ventricle pumps
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MED294 | Ventricular Septal Defect | VSD | Ashley Shutz 10/7/2010 | Bibliography 1. www.righthealth.com/topic/Septal_Defect 2. www.medterms.com/script 3. www.bing.com/health/article/mayo 4. www.AHA.com/ventricularseptaldefect 5. www.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ventricular_septal_defect 6. www.childrenshospital.org Ventricular Septal Defect or VSD is commonly called the “hole in the heart.” It is a defect in the septum between the two ventricles of the left and
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Smoking causes illness and death‚ among other disadvantages. It is the most preventable lifestyle factor affecting human health. Smoking harms every organ in your body. Your heart‚ blood vessels‚ lungs and fertility are all negatively affected by smoking and the chemicals in cigarettes.Heart and Blood Vessel Health Smoking changes the structure of blood vessels. This can lead to the buildup of plaque that hardens and narrows the vessels‚ causing a disease called atherosclerosis. Atherosclerosis
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Hypertension is a common health problem especially among people over age of 60 years. This disease is diagnostic when a patient blood pressure is more than 140 to 159 over 90 to 99. Blood pressure refers to the pressure that blood applies to the inner walls of the Diabetes is an endocrine system disorder that occurs when the body is unable to control or balance the amount of sugar in blood and within bodily tissues. You know that the human body is like a machine‚ with organ systems that are specialized
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Blood is moved from the heart to the body by arteries. Blood pressure is the force of the blood pushing against the walls of the arteries. With each heartbeat‚ blood is pumped into the arteries. Systolic pressure is determined when the heart is contracting which causes increased pressure in the arteries. Diastolic Blood pressure is the remaining pressure in the arteries when the ventricles of the heart is relaxed allowing the heart to fill with blood. Blood pressure is influenced by cardiac output
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Heart Rate Anticipatory Response: Anticipatory heart rate is the rate that the heart reaches before the start of exercise. Your heart rate usually picks up as a result of the anticipatory heart-rate response‚ this happens before exercise. When thinking about exercising before actually starting‚ the nerves that release the chemicals that adjust your heart rate increase the heart rate. The body expects exercise and therefore prepares for the activity‚ increasing the amount of oxygen being delivered
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Vocab: 1) Phlebotomist-a nurse or other health worker trained in drawing venous blood for testing or donation.p.31 2) Leukemia-any of several cancers of the bone marrow that prevent the normal manufacture of red and white blood cells and platelets‚ resulting in anemia‚ increased susceptibility to infection‚ and impaired blood clotting.p.33 3) Umbilicus- Anatomy . the depression in the center of the surface of the abdomen indicating the point of attachment of the umbilical cord to the embryo; navel
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