children such as heart murmurs goes undetected in some cases. However‚ when a heart murmur is detected it must be determined if it’s a functional murmur or abnormal. A function murmur does not require treatment and is seen as normal in children. In fact‚ my brother-n-law died at the age sixteen due to an enlarged heart. Unfortunately‚ he lived most of his life playing sports which put additional stress on his heart. There were yearly physicals required to play sports; yet‚ a heart murmur went unnoticed
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Congested Heart Failure (adapted from McGraw Hill Case Studies) Chief Complaint: 74-year-old woman with shortness of breath and swelling. History: Martha Wilmington‚ a 74-year-old woman with a history of rheumatic fever while in her twenties‚ presented to her physician with complaints of increasing shortness of breath ("dyspnea") upon exertion. She also noted that the typical swelling she’s had in her ankles for years has started to get worse over the past two months‚ making it especially
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Coronary Heart Disease is a cardiovascular disease which is the leading cause of death in high income countries and causes more than 73‚000 deaths in the UK each year. Approximately 1 in 10 women and 1 in 6 men die from CHD‚ although the chances become similar from the age of fifty. (Nhs.uk‚ 2016) CHD is caused by a gradual build up of fatty material called Atheroma within the walls of the coronary arteries‚ which supply the heart with oxygen rich blood. This causes the arteries to become narrow
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Aim: To examine and dissect a sheep’s heart‚ to observe it’s structure as a two-part pump and it’s features. Hypothesis : That the left side of the heart will be bigger because the left side of the heart pumps blood around the whole body. Apparatus: Gloves Dissection Board Sheep’s heart Scissors Aluminium Foil Newspaper Method : The heart was laid out with the septum coming diagonally from the upper right side to the lower left side. The heart clambers were observed‚ examined and recorded
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Coronary Heart Disease Heart diseases are one of the most killing diseases in the United States‚ where there are more than half a million people die of a hteart the disease every year. That is a 1 in every 4 deaths‚ which is a very huge number. (wc) About 370 thousands of these people die of the most killing type which is the coronary heart disease. (1) Since the coronary heart disease is very common nowadays‚ people should be educated on what exactly it is and how it happens‚ its risk
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Walking Stick with Heart Attack Detection By Helen Kim Choon Yik Lee ECE 445‚ SENIOR DESIGN PROJECT SPRING 2005 TA: Richard Cantzler May 3‚ 2005 Project #28 ABSTRACT The Walking Stick with Heart Attack Detection is equipment that is used daily to indicate heart condition‚ to detect heart attack and to call for emergency help. It was designed specially to help senior citizens and patients with heart disease. This project is based on the previous project “Wireless Heart Attack Detector with
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Coronary heart disease or CHD is a narrowing of the small blood vassals that supply the heart with blood and oxygen. The disease develops when a combination of fatty material‚ calcium‚ and scar tissue or plaque‚ builds up in the arteries that supply the heart with blood. This slows the blood flow and causes chest pain. Men in their 40s have a higher risk of CHD than women. But‚ as women get older‚ their risk increases so that it is almost equal to a man’s risk. Factors that put you at
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Question Sheet B Sharon Jackson 1. The septum separates the heart into a right and left side. If there was a hole in the septum there would be a mix of oxygen right blood and oxygen poor blood and some oxygen right blood can enter the lungs instead of the body. 2. Capillaries exchange materials with the cells of the body there veins return blood to the heart and arteries take blood away from the heart 3. The SA node‚ or sinoatrial node initiates the heartbeat and automatically sends out a signal
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When Hypothermia Sets In When the cold slaps your face and squeezes tears from your eyes‚ it could be the start of hypothermia. Nazi doctors calculated that a human can die when their body temperature drops to around 77 degrees fahrenheit. The lowest recorded core temperature in a surviving adult is 60.8 degrees fahrenheit (12). Instinctively‚ the web of capillaries on your hands constricts sending blood coursing away from your skin and deeper into the torso. Tibetan Buddhist Monks can raise
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The body system that most interests me is the cardiovascular system‚ I chose this system because I’m fascinated with how the heart works and how the blood flows throughout our whole body. The heart is a muscle that contracts which allows blood to be pushed throughout the body. The heart provides many nutrients and blood to the whole body along with many vital organs. The heart is spilt into four chambers: the right atrium‚ left atrium‚ left ventricle‚ and right ventricle. The blood flow starts in the
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