Heart Disease Essays and Research Papers

Peripheral vascular disease (PVD) goes by many names including atherosclerosis obliterans, arterial insufficiency, and peripheral arterial occlusive. The diseases defining characteristic is the clumping together of plaque where arteries narrow, veer, arch, and branch. The popliteal and superficial femoral arteries are the most common sight of occlusions caused by plaque. When an artery becomes blocked…

An dysrhythmia of the heart is an irregular heartbeat rhythm. Ventricular tachycardia is an dysrhythmia in which the lower chambers of the heart, the ventricles, beat unusually fast. The heart rate is measured with an electrocardiogram, or ECG. This is a machine that measures the electrical impulses from the patient’s heart. This is displayed on…

Im sure all of you have heard of cardiopulmonary resuscitation, better known as CPR. Im going to go over the steps of infant, child, and adult CPR. If you dont know how to perform CPR, I hope this will give you a good understanding of it and if you already know how to perform CPR,…

This semester I have learned a lot more thus having high or low blood pressure. I chose the topic of blood pressure because high and low blood pressure runs in my family. I also choose this topic because It was interesting, and I have learned a lot that I did not know at first about…