Cardiac Disorders

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Cardiac Disorder Objectives

Describe what a myocardial infarction is, what can occur in coronary arteries, and possible treatments.
Explain what occurs with a heart murmur and congestive heart failure.
Describe what an EKG is as well as changes in electrical impulses associated with various arrhythmias.

We’ll start cardiac disorders with an introduction to the most common heart diseases.

Medical imaging, like these MRIs (magnetic resonance imagery) of the heart, have improved dramatically in recent decades. Tests can indicate blood flow through coronary arteries and detect infarcted heart tissue.

A heart attack can occur without previous noticeable symptoms. Understanding this disease can motivate us to minimize risk factors whenever possible.

Bypass

Blocked coronary arteries can potentially be bypassed if an individual is healthy enough for this extensive surgical procedure.

Another possible cardiac disorder is a heart murmur, a defect to part of the heart, often a valve.

If the pacemaker region of the right atrium, also known as the “sinoatrial node,” becomes damaged, arrhythmias can result.

First aid is providing assistance to an individual until full care is available. CPR (cardiopulmonary resuscitation) is a significant first aid procedure that can keep a person alive until ambulatory care arrives.

In this guide’s media piece you will be planning to get (or refresh) first aid training.

Start Your 3B Media Assignment here

First Aid Training Plan

First aid is assistance you give to an injured or sick person until full medical treatment is available. For this media piece you are selecting first aid training (new or a refresher course) that you plan on getting at some point in the future.

Your first aid training selection could be a course offered in your community, a web-based online course, a book/model series to purchase, or other form designed by medical professionals.

You do not have to complete the training for this assignment, but we hope you do at some point soon, possibly included as part of the final portfolio.

You are turning in:

A. what the training is that you selected,

B. where you can get this training. Be specific. Is it a community-based course, offered at a particular website, a set of books, etc.?

C. why you chose this particular form of first aid training.

Choose a professional first aid training, for example a course offered by a local medical center. Here are a few online options:

Red Cross First Aid Training. https://www.redcross.org/take-a-class/first-aid/first-aid-training

Ideas from CDC (Centers for Disease Control). https://emergency.cdc.gov/training/index.asp

The next section provides an overview of blood tests and blood disorders.

Check your knowledge. Can you:

describe what a myocardial infarction is, what can occur in coronary arteries, and possible treatments?
explain what occurs with a heart murmur and congestive heart failure?
describe what an EKG is as well as changes in electrical impulses associated with various arrhythmias?