Essays Tagged: "Heart rate"
Alcohol
stimulus. At high doses pupils may become constricted. At intoxing doses, alcohol candecrease heart rate, lower blood pressure and respiration rate, and result in decreasedreflex and slower r ... adnormal breathing-Skin has a purple color-Skin feels clammy-Rapid pulse rate-Irregular heart rythem-Lowered blood pressureAnother common thing is choking to death on your own vomit ...
Subjects: Social Science Essays > Controversial Issues > Drugs & Alchohol
Alcohol
ond tostimulus. At high doses pupils may become constricted. At intoxing doses, alcohol candecrease heart rate, lower blood pressure and respiration rate, and result in decreasedreflex and slower reac ... labored or adnormal breathing-Skin has a purple color-Skin feels clammy-Rapid pulse rate-Irregular heart rythem-Lowered blood pressureAnother common thing is choking to death on your own vomit after ...
Subjects: Social Science Essays > Controversial Issues > Drugs & Alchohol
The effect of Ibuprofen on the heart rate of the daphnia (crustacean organism)
tail and work effortAbstractThe project that I chose to research was the effect of Ibuprofen on the heart rate of the daphnia. The reason that I chose to do this was because many people in society use ... rent organisms. Observing their inner organs is done with ease and what I mainly focused on was the heart.The almost colorless blood of the Daphnia flows anteriorly from the heart to the hemocoeland i ...
Subjects: Science Essays > Biology > Human Biology
The Nervous System: A basic Summary of the nervous system and some little peices on how it is affected by disease and drugs.
can be converted by the organs to some form of energy ie. movement, release of hormones, changes in heart rate. The response is not always conscious, for instance if you were climbing a mountain and t ... he medulla oblongata, the closest to the spinal cord, is involved with the regulation of breathing, heartbeat, vasoconstriction (blood pressure), and reflex centers for sneezing, coughing, vomiting, h ...
Subjects: Science Essays > Biology > Human Biology
Fitness coursework
his coursework is investigating the levels of fitness of groups of 8 pupils by looking at how their heart rate in beats per minute (bpm) varies with a stepping exercise. A step test provides a conveni ... ats per minute (bpm) varies with a stepping exercise. A step test provides a convenient mean to use heart rate to evaluate the efficiency of the cardiovascular response to aerobic exercise. It will al ...
Subjects: Science Essays > Biology
Marijuna: to be legal: or not to be that is the question.
ely to the chemical nicotine in the smoke. Nicotine causes a short-term increase in blood pressure, heart rate, and the flow of blood from the heart. It also causes the arteries to narrow. Carbon mono ... but not in details. It is now well documented that smoking can cause chronic lung disease, coronary heart disease, and stroke, as well as cancer of the lungs, larynx, esophagus, mouth, and bladder. In ...
Subjects: Social Science Essays > Controversial Issues > Drugs & Alchohol
This is about an experience I had in the ICU.
ygen for the incapable. The constant flickering lights monitoring everything from blood pressure to heart rate. Just a total nerve wrecking, heart pounding, angina inducing environment. When one enter ...
Subjects: Literature Research Papers > Creative Writing
This article clearly outlines the sign and symptoms of depression, and various types of depression
ession and anxiety in individuals is stress. Anxiety disorders are sometimes confused with having a heart-attack; some symptoms are, pounding heart, or fast heart rate, sweating, trembling, or shaking ...
Subjects: Social Science Essays > Society and community
This essay is about the dangers of marijuana, long and short term problems it causes.
juana. Life threatening dangers include, cancer, breathing, immune system, asthma, driving ability, heart rate, blood pressure, and reproduction. The Psychological findings include, short term memory, ... fluence of alcohol. Accuracy and perceptual motor speed are impaired immediately after cannabis use.Heart rate is also affected by the intake of THC, or marijuana. Usually heart rate increases with th ...
Subjects: Humanities Essays > Health & Medicine > Drugs
How aerobice exercising compares to arobic exercising.
different affect on the outcome you will achieve. Overall, aerobic training greatly increases your heart rate and blood pressure while anaerobic training increases your heart rate and blood pressure ... o a certain extent, but not nearly as much as aerobic training does.Aerobic training increases your heart rate usually more than anaerobic training does, but that does not mean that anaerobic training ...
Subjects: Humanities Essays > Health & Medicine > Diseases
Thiopental Sodium "Truth Serum". Details the making and use of Thiopental Sodium, also known as Truth Serum.
tra-short acting barbiturate, a type of drug that depresses the central nervous system, slowing the heart rate and lowering blood pressure. Widely used in medicine as an anesthetic during surgery, it ... e to hypnosis. A psychiatrist would administer a very small dose of the drug, causing the patient's heart rate to slow, relieving tension and anxiety and producing a state of complete relaxation. Narc ...
Subjects: Science Essays > Chemistry
A literature review on patient transport in Intensive Care units.
as considered.ResultsAdverse effects may occur in up to 70% of transports. They include a change in heart rate, arterial hypotension and hypertension, increased intracranial pressure, arrhythmias, car ... and during the consecutive transport to a diagnostic study. Although hypothermia (11.2%); change in heart rate (15.7%), blood pressure (21.3%) or in the respiratory rate of more than 20% (23.6%); or a ...
Subjects: Humanities Essays > Health & Medicine
Individual Differences and Stress
brief explanation is that adrenaline travels into the bloodstream making the body work harder. The heart rate speeds up, blood pressure raises, the person then breathes faster, the muscles tense and ... 960's; this was conducted by Friedman and Rosenman (cited in Rice and Haralambos 2000:119) who were heart specialists. They noticed the fact, that heart attack victims tended to have certain ways of b ...
Subjects: Social Science Essays > Psychology > Depression, Stress & Suicide
Physiological Aids in sport, what they are and what they do to the athlete
siological aids are used in sport as they help an athlete's performance. Some aids help to increase heart rate, adrenaline rate and stimulate the body but other aids lower the heart rate and change th ... aining gives them an advantage over other athletes. This drug can cause many physical problems like heart problems, liver damage, jaundice, euphoria and there are also mental effects like mood swings, ...
Subjects: Humanities Essays > Health & Medicine > Sports
Homeostasis
of the cardiovascular system are often a result of changes in the activities of other systems. The heart rate, cardiac output, peripheral resistance and blood pressure respond to different degrees of ... s of bodily activity, and sometimes our level of activity is affected by environmental factors. The heart rate slows and cardiac output falls when demands on bodily systems are less are in a secure an ...
Subjects: Science Essays > Biology
The effects of exercise on cardiac output
output(For results see graph paper)AnalysisAfter the initial period of rest in both girls and boys heart rates rose slightly with light exercise (walking), and then fell again slightly back towards t ... ck towards the original resting point. Then during the period of anticipation of exercise the males heart rate rose by a further 1 beat per 6 seconds, whereas the females took a dramatic leap, and ros ...
Subjects: Science Essays > Biology > Human Biology
A Scientific Look at Cardiovascular Fitness
This scientific paper explores the human cardiovascular system as it relates to physicalfitness and heart rate.IntroductionAs an early part of our study of a science, we need to all be "on the same pa ... quickly to the resting condition after exercise than in a less fit or "non-athletic" individual.The heart beats about 60 to 80 times a minute when we're at rest. Resting heart rate usually rises with ...
Subjects: Science Essays > Biology > Human Biology
Ephedrine: Is it Worth it?
aining ephedrine. Among ephedrine's side effects are seizures, dizziness, insomnia, and accelerated heart rate and blood pressure. However, effects of ephedrine that users do not often hear about are ...
Subjects: Humanities Essays > Health & Medicine > Sports
Smoking, Alcohol, and Heroin
and non-respiratory effects. Smoking is addictive and reduces lung growth. Cigarette smoking cause heart diseases and stroke. Smoking hurts young people fitness. You die earlier if you smoke. Smoking ... ps the cilia from working properly. Smoking at early age cause the risk of lung cancer. The resting heart rates of young smokers are two are three beats per a minute. Smokers who have heart failure ca ...
Subjects: Science Essays > Biology
Relevant study notes of Fitness
vel, increase metabolism, cope with everyday activities, improve skills, physical appearance, lower heart rate, muscle-toned, strengthens bones, heart health, more fit, achieves energy balance, less d ... ness?- Continuous training- Interval training- Fartlek training- Circuit training9. Formula for Max Heart Rate:220-age=MHR10. Formula for Target Heart Rate:11. Somatotyping is the method used to class ...
Subjects: Humanities Essays > Health & Medicine > Health & Fitness