Blood

with a heart defect and must have daily transfusion of blood everyday. Or imagine any situation where a loved one is hospitalized and needs blood supply. If anything ever happened to a loved one, in a heartbeat every single one of you would do anything to save there live. Background info: Every two seconds, someone needs blood and about 1 in 7 people entering hospitals need blood. That means a lot of blood is needed. The demand for blood is high, but the supply is not. In shocking statistics

Blood Disorders Amanda Swindell HCA/240 August 9, 2015 Dr. Monica Chase Blood Disorders Blood is one of the most essential elements within the body. Blood is made up of plasma, red blood cells, and platelets. Blood is vital to the body functioning correctly, and it is important to understand that there are many types of blood disorders that can cause people to get sick. While there are many different types of blood disorders out there, this paper is going to cover three which are, anemia, sickle

S1 due to higher blood pressures in the arteries, and the resulting vibration in ventricles and arteries also producing the dub sound. S3, the third heart sound, is lower in frequency because it occurs when the atrioventricular valves open and quickly fill the ventricles,

and Blood Circulation The heart is a four chambered muscular pump around the size of a fist. It beats about 100,000 times a day pumping around 2,000 gallons of blood through about 100,000 miles of organic tubing. The heart is a big muscle with four valves connected together to make a two-stage pump. The heart gets its energy by oxidizing blood sugars. This released energy, contracts the heart’s many muscle cells, and the four chambers squeeze blood out

about 180 liters of blood per day. That is three liters getting filtered 60 times per day. But my question is does having diabetes and hypertension affect the filtration rate in the kidneys? In the body the kidneys perform the task of filtering out the toxic wastes from the bloodstream and then returning the clean blood back into the body for reabsorption. According to the University of Michigan “The kidneys perform the essential function of removing waste products from the blood and regulating the

still elude even the best of doctors. Blood diseases, in particular, take an inordinate amount of testing to diagnose, and many times, are only partially treatable. I believe that in the future, a machine could be created that streamlines this process and could treat certain blood diseases entirely. The technology already exists, though it hasn’t yet been implemented in this fashion. What if there was a way to eradicate certain diseases entirely from the blood, when previously, those diseases could

Some people strongly believe that donating blood is bad, but what people don’t know is that it actually has surprisingly good benefits like reducing the risk of cancer, burning calories, and even saving someone’s life, so everyone who has the opportunity to give should. Blood drives are a benefit to everyone; it is a special event where anyone who is 16 years or older can come and donate blood. Hosting a blood drive is a event where everyone wins: “organizations gain goodwill for their community

Full Blood Count is a test used to evaluate the composition and concentration of the cellular components of blood such as red blood cells, white blood cells, platelets, etc. The abnormality it could identify are anaemia which means that there are less red blood cells or less haemoglobin in red blood cells than normal; polycythaemia which means there are too many red blood cells due to various causes; leucopoenia which means there are too few white cells due to various causes; leucocytosis which

example of the urinary system working with the respiratory system to regulate blood pH would be A) When you hold your breath the kidneys will remove CO2 from your blood B) If you exercise a lot your urine will become more acidic * C) If you develop emphysema the kidneys will remove fewer bicarbonate ions from circulation D) If you hyperventilate the kidneys will counteract the alkalinity by adding hydrogen ions into the blood stream E) None of the above-the urinary system never works with the

identify changes (if any) in the blood pressure in the following heart attack (myocardial infraction) damage to an area of heart muscle that is deprived of oxygen, usually due to blockage of a diseased coronary artery, typically accompanied by chest pain radiating down one or both arms, the severity of the attack varying with the extent and location of the damage (dictionary.com). High blood pressure is what happens when you have a heart attack. Because of stress yo9ur blood pressure will go up, you may