Tag: cardiovascular
- Another Trip Into The Circulatory System ()
Classification & Structure of Blood Vessels Blood vessels are the channels or conduits through which blood is distributed to body tissues. The vessels make up two closed systems of tubes that begin and end at the heart. One system, the pulmonary vessels, transports blood from the right ventricle to the lungs and back to the left atrium. The other system, the systemic vessels, […]
- Structures Of The Heart ()
Cardiac Muscle Contracts, Conducts Electricity, And Sometimes Generates It’s Own Impulse Recall that cardiac muscle shares a few characteristics with both skeletal muscle and smooth muscle, but it has some unique properties of its own. Not the least of these exceptional properties is its ability to initiate an electrical potential at a fixed rate that […]
- The Cardiovascular Exam ()
Taking A Closer Look At Vital Signs When the patient is complaining of chest pain or their complaint causes the medics to consider a cardiovascular cause of the patient’s complaint, the focused physical exam must address the possibility of cardiac dysrhythmias. A cardiac dysrhythmia is an irregularity in the patient’s heart rhythm. A very common […]
- Chest Pain ()
Same clot, different artery The same blood clot that could have caused a stroke could land in a coronary artery, resulting in decreased blood flow through the myocardium. The more blood flow is cut off from the obstruction, the more it hurts. To make matters worse, the blood vessels could be narrowing due to a […]