Impulses of the Heart

Tell me what you see that’s wrong with the waves besides them being irregular but of course. That’s a given, so let’s just find something else. Those squiggly lines in the middle of the main contractions ought not to be. It looks almost like somebody took a crayon out and started coloring indefinitely without stopping. That activity that you see is caused by the atria at the top of the heart quivering still in the chest. The bottom part continues to beat. The result of this is the heart not getting adequate blood flow down through the chest. Blood will start pooling in the heart and quite possibly clot. A clot is formed by the stoppage of blood. That’s why it must be kept continually moving. Then too the heart’s an efficient organ for that now that it seems. You’d think the problems could be solved by a nice brisk run, but if anything, the matter is worse. A person with this will fail to get enough oxygenated blood from the lungs. As a result, they’ll be quite tired and quite possibly lacking in breath. After that, there’s what’s known as atrial flutter. Can you tell me what might could be wrong? That’s right, the atria still aren’t working quite like they should. In fact, they aren’t even pumping at all. It’s like leaving the ventricles to do all the work. But that’s not too efficient due to the heart valves between the two chambers. In case you were wondering, this issue affects primarily the atria coming into the heart. 

From there, the heart will try to keep up with simple laws of supply and demand. In the case of ventricular tachycardia though, it can’t. This mechanism is seen as the heart gets overloaded with blood. Perhaps the atrium have stopped working in the previous example, who knows. This time though, there’s no atrial activity, only the incessant pounding of ventricular activity as it tries to get the blood out from the heart. Think of it like you’ve run for awhile and are now out of breath. You likely have to stop and pant for awhile before taking a rest. The ventricles are doing much the same sort of thing. Reasons for this include lack of brainstem activity, failures of the heart in it’s condition system, and also the muscles themselves. In the case of attack or heart damage, some groups of muscles will cease to respond. These, known as heart attacks, are often due to the blockage of blood through the vessels. The heart itself must get blood to survive. Thus, there’s all sorts of vessels feeding blood to the vessels lining the heart. If the blockage of blood isn’t restored, the heart will follow these patterns as the muscles die off. This pattern continues until it spreads all the way through signalling death to thee form of the heart. 

Before death though, comes one last long-distance shot at survival of course. This occurs in the form of ventricular fibrillation. Sadly, the ventricles have ceased to send blood at all. They just hang limp and quivering attempting to return to their normal state now of rest. It’s a rest that will soon come in this form. Sometimes these rhythms are entirely shockable while others can’t return even once. It all depends on the person and the cause of damage dealt to the heart. From there, you’ll want to do everything in your power to save them. It’s only natural to feel somewhat responsible if your efforts aren’t as you planned. Just think though, at least the trying’s better than doing nothing if ever at all. Maybe next time, there’ll be somewhat better results.