The heart is made up of four chambers‚ the left and right atria‚ and the left and right ventricles. “The left and right sides of the heart do not communicate with one another after birth and are separated by a thick interventrical or interatrial septum” (Prater‚ 2008). The top (atrium) and bottom (ventricle) parts of the heart are separated by a valve‚ which prevents the backflow of blood. Blood enters the heart through the inferior and superior vena cava carrying deoxygenated blood. The vena cava
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It’s not likely that you will ever read another story about a man who has endured two heart transplants‚ a kidney transplant‚ and numerous other medical and emotional traumas---like you will when reading 1 Man‚ 3 Hearts‚ 9 Lives: A Story of Hope‚ Resilience‚ and Survival by Christophe Lafontant. I was‚ of course‚ intrigued when I saw the book up for review‚ and though it was a harrowing journey in which I felt like I was there with the author experiencing his pain‚ it is a journey I would gladly
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The heart is one of two most critically important organs in the human body. Also many Americans have heart conditions that require heart surgery because they have a serious heart condition. I think that bypass heart surgery and heart transplant and are the top two most important surgeries that will help save people whose lives are affected by a serious heart condition. You are in the middle of the forest and all of the sudden you have a sharp pain in the left part of your chest. You start dry heaving
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Congenital Heart Defects in Children Congenital heart defects in children are frightening conditions that are yet to be understood fully by cardiologists (Mayo Clinic). Ranging from a benign murmur to complete cardiac arrest‚ congenital heart defects are important disorders to be educated about (Fulton). Because of the potential severity of these illnesses‚ one should understand what is thought to cause this‚ forms of it‚ the risk involved‚ precautionary measures‚ and what the prognosis is. By
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Hypertensive heart disease is obviously caused by high blood pressure. High blood pressure means the pressure inside the blood vessels‚ which is arteries is too high. As the heart pumps‚ it must pump against the pressure‚ so it must work harder. Gradually‚ the heart muscles will be thicken. Sometimes it does not get enough oxygen because the muscle is too thick. It influenced your heart to pump regularly and its functions. These changes could effect the thickening and enlargement of the heart (left ventricle)
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Liliana Mojica Morley English II 32414 The Word “Heart” in Macbeth As Theodore Parker once said‚ “Wealth and want equally harden the human heart.” All hearts start as all hearts do‚ with love and compassion just as they should. But as a heart grows and develops with the world and people around it‚ it is affected. The human heart will grow new feelings towards things and people. This changes the definition of what you thought of as a heart. Heart can be thought of as a persons feelings; lo
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The Human Heart 1. The average adult heart beats 72 times a minute; 100‚000 times a day; 3‚600‚000 times a year; and 2.5 billion times during a lifetime.f 2. Though weighing only 11 ounces on average‚ a healthy heart pumps 2‚000 gallons of blood through 60‚000 miles of blood vessels each day.c 3. A kitchen faucet would need to be turned on all the way for at least 45 years to equal the amount of blood pumped by the heart in an average lifetime.a 4. The volume of blood pumped by the heart can vary
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Congestive heart failure is the process in which the heart becomes in-able to maintain circulation for the requirements of the body at an effective rate‚ As the heart is one of the body’s vital organs‚ it plays an important role and has some degree of compensating mechanisms to balance the body’s needs with existing disease of the heart. Eventually when the heart is no longer able to compensate heart failure occurs; congestion will then follow‚ resulting in insufficient supply of blood to the body
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Short Answer Questions: 1. Dr. Baker spends a long time listening to (auscultating) Caleb’s heart. a. Where on the thoracic surface do you auscultate to the tricuspid‚ mitral (bicuspid)‚ pulmonary‚ and aortic valves? For the tricuspid valves‚ the sounds of the heart are typically heard in the right sternal margin of the 5th intercostal space. For the Mitral (bicuspid) valve‚ sounds are heard over the heart apex‚ in the 5th intercostal space. This is in line with the middle of the clavicle. (Lutchman
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The Risk Factors of Heart Attack Heart attack is the death of a segment of heart muscle caused by the loss of blood supply. The blood supply is usually lost because a coronary artery‚ one that supplies blood to the heart muscle‚ has a blood clot‚ a blockage also known as coronary thrombosis or coronary disease. ("What Is A Heart Attack? What Causes A Heart Attack?" 2013) Heart disease is the number one killer of both men and women in America with approximately 460‚000 related deaths due to a sudden
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