Bradycardia vs. My Grandfather
In my first humanities class of the years called "Disease".This class is based on different effects in the body that brings us under the word Disease. We have been talking about various topics such as cancer, different body systems, and what is in blood. By that, we did a lot of research on what causes these problems within the body systems and also cancer. But for this AP, we decided to navigate towards a disease, we did activities such as making a family tree and picked a family member on our family tree who had a diseased or something happened with them. Hopefully, you enjoy it...
The disease is called “Bradycardia”. Bradycardia is when the heart rate is slower than the normal heart rate. It is caused by 3 things called the "Atrioventricular block” and those include 3 degrees from a blockage heart.
1st degree: all electrical signals from the atria reach the ventricles, but the signal is slowed.
2nd degree: Not all electrical signals reach the ventricles. Some beats are "dropped," resulting in a slower and sometimes irregular rhythm.
3rd degree: None of the electrical impulses from the atria reaches the ventricles. When this usually happens, that’s when the pacemaker will be useful towards this act. The symptoms that come with this disease are fatigue, dizziness, chest pains, and confusion.
To help treat Bradycardia, they would use this machine called a “Pacemaker” and what that does is helps your heart go back to the normal heart rate. The age of which this disease happens environmental is between the ages of 45-84 years old, it’s not a specific age group for this disease but just the process of aging occurs with it.
Some risk factors:
Superior Vena Cava: returns oxygen-poor blood to the heart for re-oxygenation and recirculation.
Aorta: is the main artery that carries blood away from your heart to the rest of your body.
Right Atrium: receives deoxygenated blood from the body through the vena cava and pumps it into the right ventricle which then sends it to the lungs to be oxygenated.
Left Atrium: receives oxygenated blood from the lungs and pumps it down into the left ventricle which delivers it to the body.
Left Ventricle: the thickest of the heart's chambers and is responsible for pumping oxygenated blood to tissues all over the body.
Right Ventricle: receives deoxygenated blood from the right atrium and pumps it under low pressure into the lungs via the pulmonary artery.
In conclusion: I enjoyed this AP, it was a good experience. I feel more connected with my Grandfather that I was. Knowing about what he has really worried me and knowing that he is handling it is a good thing because many people cannot handle it well. But overall, the project itself was good. I also enjoyed researching this disease and seeing what effects it have on different people within the age range. I felt like I learned a lot from doing it, and I would 100% do it again if I had to.
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Grandfather's Profile
My Patient is my Grandfather named Willie, he is an 83-year-old man. He was diagnosed with Bradycardia 4 years ago, so he was 79. He was told by his doctors that he needed to use a Pacemaker because his heart rate was slower than normal. In our interview, he told me about how he was a little nervous and didn't really want to take the pacemaker. When he was was young, he didn't have a healthy food diet he would eat things such as burgers, fries, shakes and drink pop. Smoking as well.The disease is called “Bradycardia”. Bradycardia is when the heart rate is slower than the normal heart rate. It is caused by 3 things called the "Atrioventricular block” and those include 3 degrees from a blockage heart.
1st degree: all electrical signals from the atria reach the ventricles, but the signal is slowed.
2nd degree: Not all electrical signals reach the ventricles. Some beats are "dropped," resulting in a slower and sometimes irregular rhythm.
3rd degree: None of the electrical impulses from the atria reaches the ventricles. When this usually happens, that’s when the pacemaker will be useful towards this act. The symptoms that come with this disease are fatigue, dizziness, chest pains, and confusion.
To help treat Bradycardia, they would use this machine called a “Pacemaker” and what that does is helps your heart go back to the normal heart rate. The age of which this disease happens environmental is between the ages of 45-84 years old, it’s not a specific age group for this disease but just the process of aging occurs with it.
Some risk factors:
- Heart surgery
- Infection of the heart tissue
- Damaged caused by a heart attack
Illustration:
This picture here shows where Bradycardia is labeled in the body. The body part where it affects the Heart.
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| Body part system. Heart. S.W. |
Superior Vena Cava: returns oxygen-poor blood to the heart for re-oxygenation and recirculation.
Aorta: is the main artery that carries blood away from your heart to the rest of your body.
Right Atrium: receives deoxygenated blood from the body through the vena cava and pumps it into the right ventricle which then sends it to the lungs to be oxygenated.
Left Atrium: receives oxygenated blood from the lungs and pumps it down into the left ventricle which delivers it to the body.
Left Ventricle: the thickest of the heart's chambers and is responsible for pumping oxygenated blood to tissues all over the body.
Right Ventricle: receives deoxygenated blood from the right atrium and pumps it under low pressure into the lungs via the pulmonary artery.
In conclusion: I enjoyed this AP, it was a good experience. I feel more connected with my Grandfather that I was. Knowing about what he has really worried me and knowing that he is handling it is a good thing because many people cannot handle it well. But overall, the project itself was good. I also enjoyed researching this disease and seeing what effects it have on different people within the age range. I felt like I learned a lot from doing it, and I would 100% do it again if I had to.
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Medtronic. “Facts about Bradycardia - Slow or Irregular Heart Rate - Symptoms, Causes, Risk Factors.” Facts about Bradycardia - Slow or Irregular Heart Rate - Symptoms, Causes, Risk Factors, www.medtronic.com/ca-en/your-health/conditions/slow-heart-beat.html.
“Bradycardia.” Mayo Clinic, Mayo Foundation for Medical Education and Research, 13 Nov. 2019, www.mayoclinic.org/diseases-conditions/bradycardia/symptoms-causes/syc-20355474.
Dharod, Ajay. “Association of Bradycardia With Incident CVD and Mortality.” JAMA Internal Medicine, American Medical Association, 1 Feb. 2016, jamanetwork.com/journals/jamainternalmedicine/fullarticle/2482350.
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