First Blue Baby Surgery Analysis

2. The defect in Caleb’s heart allows blood to mix between the two ventricular chambers. Due to this defect would you expect the blood to move from left-to-right ventricle or right-to-left ventricle during systole? Explain your answer based on blood pressure and resistance in the heart and great vessels. It goes left to right during systole. The difference is normally, oxygen-poor (blue) blood returns to the right atrium from the body, travels to the right ventricle, and then is pumped into the lungs where it receives oxygen. Oxygen-rich (red) blood returns to the left atrium from the lungs, passes into the left ventricle, and then is pumped out to the body through the aorta. But when an infant has ventricular septal defect it still allows oxygen-rich (red) blood to pass from the left ventricle, through the opening in the septum, and then mix with oxygen-poor (blue) blood in the right ventricle. (ROCHESTER.EDU) but instead when systole occurs the blood gets mixed because of the septum therefore heart needs to pump harder to ensure that enough blood with oxygen reaches the body.

Thomas started to learn a lot about medicine. He worked with Black on every thing. The one day Blalock was offered a job at John Hobkins hospital. He wouldn’t go unless Thomas went.

Ed Thomas did anything he could help the town out. On some Sundays, he’d fill in for the pastor if they were not able to preach. He gave newborn boys “FUTURE FALCONS” certificates. He did everything from being a driver’s ed instructor to mowing his precious field. He had no idea how much more of an impact he would have.

In a normal human being the heart correctly functions by the blood first entering through the right atrium from the superior and inferior vena cava. This blood flow continues through the right atrioventricular valve into the right ventricle. The right ventricle contracts forcing the pulmonary valve to open leading blood flow through the pulmonary valve and into the pulmonary trunk. Blood is then distributed from the right and left pulmonary arteries to the lungs, where carbon dioxide is unloaded and oxygen is loaded into the blood. The blood is returned from the lungs to the left

“Where is Baby’s belly Button?” is an interactive book by Karen Katz. It is a lift-the-flap book focusing on babies and body parts in a questions and answer formats. This is such a nice "peek-a-boo" board book in which kids get plenty of attention to find a baby’s eye, mouth, belly button, feet, and hands. All hiding underneath flaps that easy for the babies to lift to reveal what was hiding. While reading the book asking simple questions using easy words for the babies to understand, such as ("Where are baby's eyes?"), and flapping the hat saying "peek-a-boo", ("Under her hat!"). The questions and finding the answer by flapping the pages idea, makes the book entertaining and interacting during the read. Moreover, helping the babies understanding

The heart is what keeps the human body running. From the very first time someone presses their head up against their mothers chest or feels their own heart beat, they know that the pulse they feel means something important. It’s the rhythm that lets us keep on living. It’s strange to think that before I read this book, I barely knew anything about this absolutely vital organ in my body. Now, I probably know more history about the human heart than I ever thought I’d know. This book went totally in depth about the history of the human heart, and how modern medicine knows what it knows about this vital organ. It weaves history and information about the heart together in a way that keeps you interested until the last page, which is something I

Critical Congenital Heart Defect (CCHD) is a subgroup of congenital heart defects that normally necessitates surgical intervention or catheterization procedure during the neonatal period (Good, Canale, Goodman, & Yeager, 2015). According to Mahle et al. (2009), although there are measures taken to detect CCHD like prenatal ultrasound and comprehensive newborn physical examination during newborn’s birth hospitalization, there is still a significant percentage of newborns with CCHD that is left undetected and discharged home without being diagnosed. Delay in diagnosis of CCHD increases morbidity and mortality (Mahle et al., 2009). In response to this, Riede et al. (2010) mentioned that the diagnostic gap in CCHD could be bridged by screening newborns using pulse oximetry

If the heart and its chambers aren't formed correctly prior to birth, the healthy parts have to work all the harder.

One day Blalock, the guy Vivien studied the blue babies heart with, got asked to go to Hopkins hospital. Blalock accepted under one condition. Blalock said he would take the job if Vivien could come too. Vivien was a very smart man. The guy said he could but when Blalock left then Vivien had to too. So Vivien and Blalock went to the Hopkins hospital. They started studying ways to fix blue babies

It is easy to see that the medical abilities and tools we had 50 years ago are nothing in comparison to what we have today. Among these advances has been the extent to which we can prevent illness and disability. Fetal surgery first emerged in the 1980’s by Dr Michael Harrison aka “the father of fetal surgery,” when he decided to look into ways doctors could fix certain defects before birth to avoid their inevitable, devastating consequences. It has since expanded its practice to a number of hospitals across the country, although it is still an uncommon procedure. It involves opening up the mother 's uterus (just as a doctor would during a caesarean section) so that the fetus is exposed as much as needed to be operated on. The fetus is then put back and the uterus is closed until it is time for the mother to go into labor. The fetus is never detached from the mother and is essentially being operated on while inside the womb (Smajdor). While it may seem like a positive life changing procedure, there are many perspectives out there that support

Syndrome. Approximately half of all infants born with Down’s syndrome have a heart defect. Many of these defects have serious implications”

Blue or patchy (mottled) skin color, rapid heart rate, rapid breathing (signs of immature lungs or heart failure)

One of the primal examples of sweatshops was in the vile cloth mills of Ecuador. The native population was put to work in horrendous conditions by Spanish conquerors to assist the production of various items. Cloth, rough garments and other assorted textile goods are only a few of the many items the native community manufactured. It took only a short time for the trend of sweatshops to expand into other countries. In many cities, recent immigrants converted their modest apartments into workplaces that doubled as living spaces. Fiery competition among contractors and immigrants’ desperate need for work kept wages low and working hours high. For manufacturers who paid low wages and provided poor working conditions, Southern and eastern

When dealing with a cardiovascular disorder, a child’s heart has to work harder in order for that child to be able to accomplish everyday tasks. Heart disease is not a major cause of death in children, but it is the number one cause of death among adults in the United States. It is silly, and even worse, sad to see a life taken away by a condition that could have been prevented.

Congenital heart diseases (CHDs) are the most prevalent of all birth defects and the leading cause of death in the first year of life, (1) with an annual prevalence ranging from six to twelve affected infants per 1,000 live births. (2)