Pumps In The Heart

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We can learn many things from case studies because, they vary so much that every case study is different. Some examples are from coronary artery disease to just the common heart attack. The heart is a very complex organ and with that many complications can occur and in a wide variety so case studies can help us understand the heart easier. In these case studies it many focuses on pumps in the heart to help it do its job when its too weak or can't do it on its own. One in Beth Bradley she was 48 and lived in New York when she had chest pains and went to the hospital where she found out she was having a heart attack and a catheter broke an artery in her heart. They attached her heart to a pump and waiting for a heart donor. Eventually she was …show more content…

One day he was just talking to some friends and then he just collapsed mid conversation one of his friends was an EMT and he socked him back and saved his life. After that the doctors realized his whole family had long QT syndrome. So now Kevin has a defibrillator to help shock him back into rhythm when his heart goes out of whack and his family is trying to see what to do about the other 2 sons in the family and see what works best for them and their disease. The next study is Susan Arvin's had very bad chest pains and her heart would beat very fast when she would just be relaxing. They decided to do a ablation to fix it and after her surgery she just walked out and was back to normal the next day. The last study is Magdal De Silvia from Latin America was having very sharp pain in the heart and went to hospital and has chagas disease where you can have fast and slow heart arrhythmias. It is spread through a bug bite so it is not genetic. The small parasite eats the cells and leaves scar tissue in the heart and confuses the heart. Most victims are small children but doesn't affect them until they are adults. Magdals heart is too far damaged to be fixed but will be given a device to help with the arrhythmias. He is given a defibrillator and a pacemaker that are both in one small metal box implanted in his