Heart, lungs and the Rest of You By: Olivia Abel 1.Explain how the blood flows throughout your lungs, heart and the rest of your body. Heart: Your left and right side of your heart work together to pump blood to and throughout your body which is separated by muscular tissue called the septum. In the right side blood enters through two large vein which are the inferior and superior vena cava, emptying poor oxygen blood from the body to the right reticulum. When the left side enters from the pulmonary veins and empties oxygen rich blood from the lungs into the aorta going throughout the body.
Since the patient has hypertension which increases the afterload of the arteries which can lead the stroke volume decreases and the cardiac output decreases. To compensate this situation, heart rate will further increases. Therefore, the time for filling blood in left ventricle will decreases. In order to compensate the situation, left ventricle wall will get thicker and try to
Case Study 2: CHF Congestive heart failure (CHF) is a disease process in which the cardiac function as a pump cannot meet the body requirements resulting in fluid buildup in tissues such as arms, abdomen, limbs, and lungs. Symptoms can include fatigue, edema, dyspnea, and reduced tolerance to activities. Causes of CHF are cardiomyopathy, hypertension, and atherosclerosis, etc. Cardiomyopathy is an illness that affects the myocardium (heart muscles) and includes three types: dilated, hypertrophic, and restrictive cardiomyopathy. Managing a patient with this condition requires a proper treatment plan, techniques for education, and an all-inclusive teaching strategy.
Atrial Fibrillation Atrial Fibrillation or Afib Atrial Fibrillation (afib) is a condition in which the atria, two upper chambers of the heart, quiver (or fibrillate) to cause an irregular beat. With the quivering of the atria, blood is unable to push into the ventricles, two lower chambers of the heart, leading to decreased blood flow throughout the rest of the body. Atrial fibrillation is the most common abnormal heart rhythm, affecting an estimated 2.7 million Americans. Men are most at risk, but women die of stroke related complications more often. Though, many of those who diagnosed can go on to live healthy and active lives.
The society we live in today has developed drastically, this development has ranged and branched out to a variety of fields, one field that has seen tremendous advancement would be the medical field. Medicine has been documented to be around for 2500 years and has been potent in the lasting of the human race. One major factor that has persisted for a long period of time and has claimed many would be Heart failure; the heart is a complex organ that strives to pump blood through your body through the use of blood vessels such as arteries, capillaries and veins these vessels carry blood throughout your body. Your heart is vital to your health due to the fact that without the heart’s pumping action, blood would not be able to move through your
All muscles of the body fall prey to this effect, even the heart. With less force required to circulate blood throughout the body, the heart too slowly decreases in size
1. Admit the patient using critical thinking skills to assess and prioritise nursing interventions related to Audrey’s. • Comfort and Safety. Audrey who is diagnosed with fractured left NOF (neck of femur) must be evaluated using pain assessment to obtain the optimal pain management intervention. Analgesics and non-pharmacologic approaches will be helpful to ease her pain and anxiety(Fink, 2000).
Coronary heart disease starts to develop at a young age when plaque can start to develop in the blood vesicles walls. As your get older, the plaque builds up, inflaming the blood vesicle walls, making your arteries more prone to blood clots and giving you a higher risk for a heart attack. Soon enough, the plaque starts to release chemicals for healing but ends up making the artery sticky, resulting in things like calcium sticking to your blood vesicle walls. The heart then tries to compromise by making new vesicles to do the job of the damaged ones, but in times of stress the new vesicles may not be able to provide enough oxygen-rich blood to your heart. If you have a big enough blood clot that totally shuts down your artery, you have a heart
Then the hormones influence the sympathetic nerves which causes the heart to beat stronger to increase the stroke volume in order to increase the heart rate and increase cardiac output. This is evident in sports such as long distance running where people get adrenaline close to the end of the race where they begin to feel tired but they push themselves on. The body would release adrenalin in order to keep the body going which therefore increases the heart rate. Increase of blood pressure.
Clots in the lumen of vessels tend to occur due to the gradual build up of fats which can lead to arteriosclerosis. Cholesterol level increases, which may contribute to coronary heart disease. The lungs absorb less oxygen due to a decrease in the number of alveoli. The chest along with present alveoli, become rigid. It loses some of its elasticity and the muscles which assist in breathing, such as the diaphragm,
Cells in the heart muscle that do not receive enough oxygen-carrying blood begin to die. The
When you have heart failure does not mean your heart has
Another drawback caused by sugar is heart disease. Consuming too much sugar increases the risk of death from heart disease, as studies shown that sugar is one of the leading causes of having heart problems. Sugar intake raises calories rate in the body, which in turn slows the metabolism that contributes to weight gain. As a result, the high blood sugar goes high and also insulin levels, and when insulin levels are high, chaos begins in the body and hormones disturbed, and then it becomes difficult for the body's cells to get rid of fat, which causing cholesterol. High cholesterol is one of the factors lead to heart disease and heart attack .
But the walls of the ventricles are much thicker and powerful because it is responsible of pumping the blood from the heart to all body organs via organized circuit. The heart chambers fill and pump in specific sequence called the cardiac cycle which contains two phases, contraction phase called systole and relaxation phase called diastole. (Campbell, 1977) Function:
