Cow Heart Dissection By: Ashley McAllister 3/16/2014 Ashley McAllister Anatomy Miss Reilmann March 16‚ 2014 Cow Heart Dissection A. Background Information When the class dissected the cow heart last Thursday there were a lot of different things that could be seen. The purpose of this particular dissection was to see how the heart worked and pumped blood so that the body was able to receive the nutrients and oxygen it needed to survive. The cow heart and a human heart are alike
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The understanding of blood spatter patterns is not a widely recognized forensic practice. Bloodstain pattern interpretation (BPI) is commonly used in murder investigations‚ but could be utilized in everything from simple assault to mass murders if the number of trained professionals increased. BPI can reveal critical information into reinventing a given crime scene. Everything from the number of blows‚ stabs or shots a victim was given‚ the movement that was undergone by the victim and assailant
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Blood Transfusion is commonly being ordered to patients who lost a great deal of blood due to a diseasecondition or an accident. It can also be ordered by the physician if the patient is to undergo an operation that would involve considerable blood loss. The following is a step-by-step checklist of things to do and other responsibilities to ensure proper blood transfusion and prevent any unwanted reactions and errors. 1. Verify the physician’s written order and make a treatment card according
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account of blood pressure testing during a clinical simulative skill session The clinical skill that I have decided to reflect on in this essay is the manual blood pressure test that I have performed on one of my colleague during a simulative clinical skills session. The aim of this essay is to reflect on this experience‚ so as to learn from it‚ identify areas of concern and increase competence in this skill accordingly. To start the essay it is the custom to at least give a definition of blood pressure
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Exercise 11: Blood Analysis: Activity 4: Blood Typing Lab Report Pre-lab Quiz Results You scored 75% by answering 3 out of 4 questions correctly. 1. Red blood cell membranes have You correctly answered: c. agglutinogens that specify that individual’s blood type. 2. ABO and Rh antigens You correctly answered: d. All of these answers are correct. 3. Which of the following statements about blood types is correct? You correctly answered: d. A person with type O blood has two recessive alleles and has
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IN ELASTIC ARTERIES‚ CONTAINS SMOOTH MUSCLE AND ELASTIN 4 CHARACTERISTICS OF TUNICA EXTERNA MOST SUPERFICIAL TUNIC‚ HAS A SMOOTH SURFACE TO DECREASE RESISTANCE TO BLOOD FLOW 5 WHY ARE VALVES PRESENT IN VEINS BUT NOT IN ARTERIES? Veins need valves to create pressure to pump the blood to the heart. Blood flows away from the heart and‚ therefore‚ the pressure is not required. Helps against gravity. 6 NAME TWO EVENTS OCCURING WITHIN THE BODY THAT AID IN VENOUS RETURN. 1. Respiratory "Pump"
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The Mammalian Heart Analysis Questions 1. The job performed by the atria is collecting blood‚ while the job performed by the ventricles is pumping blood. Since the atria are thin-walled‚ they must function similar to thin bags that collect the blood. The ventricles have thick walls‚ which allow them to contract strongly to be able to pump blood to the rest of the body. 2. The deoxygenated blood must be pumped to the lungs‚ where it becomes oxygenated prior to be being pumped back to the rest
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Congestive Heart Failure Congestive Heart Failure‚ also known as "cardiac decompensation‚ cardiac insufficiency‚ and cardiac incompetence‚" (Basic Nursing 1111) is an imbalance in pump function in which the heart is failing and unable to do its work pumping enough blood to meet the needs of the body’s other organs. To some people‚ heart failure is defined as a sudden and complete stoppage of heart activityi.e. that the heart just stops beating. This is an inaccuracy. Heart failure usually
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Donating Blood Imagine that your father had just suffered a heart attack‚ and has to go through open-heart surgery in order to repair the damage that happened to his heart. Imagine your little nephew or niece was born with a rare heart defect and had to have a daily transfusion of blood in order to have a chance to wake up the next day. Imagine that your best friend went to the doctor and had just been diagnosed with leukemia‚ a disease requiring regular platelet transfusions. These aren’t
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In a health course many times you are assigned papers on a variety of topics pertaining to physical maturation‚ the human body‚ nutrition‚ and a number of other topics. However‚ in my own education one topic I don’t remember being covered was blood donation. Blood donation and blood collection is very important in order to keep the blood banks full for when blood is needed and so knowing about blood donation‚ and how blood banks collect and distribute blood is very important. If you are assigned
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