HSC 4555 Lecture Notes - Lecture 19: Heart Block, Afterload, Cardiac Arrhythmia
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Sarcomeres are going to be added to the end so the muscle will grow in size but the capillaries are lacking and aren"t able to feed it. Low cardiac output into body, backs into lungs, pulmonary hypertension, right side of heart is working hard to catch up to the lack of left, the right side eventually fails. Right heart failure is a consequence of left side heart failure. Wake up out of their sleep feeling like they are suffocating-paroxysmal nocturnal dyspnea. Mild, mild-slight limitation, moderate-know you have a limitation, severe-can"t do any physical activity. *brief don"t need to go in great detail. Fibrillation-beating in a disorganized manner, can cause clots. Origination is supposed to occur in sv node but can occur elsewhere. Delay or block (heart block) type 1 block everything is slow the rhythm of the heart is normal but everything else is off.
