Gail Smith
Medical Billing and Coding
Ms. Cooley
2015 August 19
From The Heart The human heart beats about one hundred thousand times per day, and two and a half billion times over a lifetime. The heart is responsible for pumping blood to the organs, tissues, and cells throughout the body. Blood sends nutrition and oxygen to the cells and carries waste products and carbon dioxide out of the body (From The Heart, 2002). There are two loops that make up the circulatory system. This is the main role that the heart plays in the circulatory system. One loop carries oxygen poor blood from the heart to the lungs for oxygen with the second loop carrying oxygen and food to the tissues and cells (From The Heart, 2002). The heart’s structure helps
The heart is a major organ in the body, this organ pumps blood around the body, through veins, capillaries and arteries. The blood carries oxygen to our cells and also carries waste products which include water and carbon dioxide, which are products of respiration. Blood also helps spread out salts, enzymes, urea, nutrients, hormones and heat across the body.
The cardiovascular system is the process of the heart pumping the blood around the body through blood vessels, arteries, veins and capillaries. The main functions of the system are to transport materials to and from the cells around the body, to assist in temperature, to keep the levels of fluid in the body at the correct level, to distribute heat around the body and to defend the body. This system is the heart, which is a muscle that pumps blood around the body through arteries, veins and capillaries. Blood transports oxygen to the body cells which helps them to metabolise energy in the body. During this process the blood is also getting rid of any waste products of respiration, carbon dioxide and water. Blood also helps to supply heat, hormones, nutrients, salts and urea around the body. The heart is placed in between the lungs which is protected by the rib cage and is the size of a fist.
Each day, your heart pumps nearly 2,000 gallons of blood. Over the course of an average lifetime, it will beat over 3 billion times. It is slightly larger than a clenched fist, and is located behind the sternum, between the lungs.
The cardiovascular system, which consists of the heart and blood vessels, is the circulatory systems in our body. The major function of the system is transportation; the heart is the system pump and the blood vessels are the delivery routes. The heart transport respiratory gases, nutrients, wastes, and other substances vital to the body’s homeostasis to and from the cells by using the blood as a medium.
To understand the importance of the blood flow throughout the heart and lungs. The heart is made up of solid muscle, which helps the heart contract and release. The heart has multiple chambers that lead to different arteries and veins throughout the body. The purpose of the heart is to bring oxygen rich blood to all the tissues of the body.
The heart is a very strong muscle that has one major job. The heart’s job is to pump blood throughout the entire body. The heart is made up of 4 chambers, and 4 valves. There is the right and left atrium, and a right and left ventricle. The atriums are the superior chambers, and the ventricles are inferior chambers. The left ventricle is the most important, because that is where the blood travels through to go to the aorta, and eventually the rest of the body (Taylor 2015).
The cardiovascular system - The cardiovascular system is responsible for transporting nutrients and removing gaseous waste from the body. It consists of the heart, which powers the whole process, the veins, arteries, and capillaries, which deliver oxygen to tissue at the cellular level. The cardiovascular system carries blood that is low in oxygen away from the heart to the lungs via arteries, where oxygen levels are restored through the air once oxygenated, this blood is then carried throughout the body via arteries, keeping our organs and tissue alive. The cardiovascular system is the workhorse of the body, continuously moving to push blood to the cells. If this important system ceases its work, the body dies.
The heart’s job is to collect blood from all areas of the body, pump the blood to the lungs where it receives oxygen, collect the oxygen-rich blood from the lungs, and pump it to all areas of the body.
The human heart pumps around 2,000 gallons of blood to all areas of the body. “In a 70 year lifetime, an average human
The heart, composed of four chambers (See Figure One), is an imperative organ for life. It is the central driving force of the cardiovascular system, responsible for the movement of blood throughout the body. This process is the result of repetitive contractions and expansions of the heart resulting in pressure accumulation to force blood into
The heart is not only responsible for pumping blood through the entire body, but it also requires its own blood supply in order to perform its function. This is known as coronary circulation. The cardiovascular system has two circulatory paths; pulmonary circulation, the circuit through the lungs where blood is oxygenated and systemic circulation, the circuit through the rest of the body to provide oxygenated blood. Pulmonary circulation is the movement of blood from the heart to the lungs for oxygenation, then back to the heart again. Oxygen leaves the systemic circulation when it is entered in the right atrium through the vena cavae. Then it travels through the tricuspid valve into the right ventricle. The blood is pumped through the pulmonary
When a person is 80 years old, the average healthy heart will have beat 3,363,840,000 times (“10 unique and fun facts about the cardiovascular system,” 2015). The cardiovascular system includes the heart and blood vessels that’s main job is to carry blood from the body to the heart and vice versa. The human heart is amazingly the base core of functionality for the human body, without it the human body would never function. There are three stages in the process of pumping blood throughout the body.
Referring to Louise Tucker 5th edition, the heart is an organ that pumps blood through the body via the circulatory system, supplying nutrients and oxygen to the tissues and removing carbon dioxide and other waste products.
The hearts role is to pump oxygenated blood to every cell in the body by having a continuous beat. Throughout time the heart has created mystery, however current technology has solved most of the mystery, there still remains an enchantment and eagerness to learn more.