Roughly 190,000 Americans are diagnosed with acute respiratory distress syndrome each year with a mortality rate between 47,500 and 76,000 people per year. ARDS is a very serious medical condition that allows fluids from the blood and interstitial spaces to cross the alveolar membrane as opposed to gas exchange occurring. …
Gallstones are not often talked about but it is the fifth major digestive disease in the United States, gallstones form when bile harden. Extra bile is stored in the gallbladder to aid in digestion into the small intestine. Bile enters from the top from the common hepatic duct from the …
My project is on the role asthma plays in respiratory dysfunction. It looks at how our respiratory system is altered with each asthma attack. It then takes a brief look at intervention/management of asthma. My project covers course the course objective “Analyze the effects of disease on function and structure …
My STEAM project is on the hormone oxytocin. My objective is to relate the hormone to its involvement in the stages of birth and lactation through contractions, along with its strong release during sexual arousal. For my visual, I created a poster displaying how the hormone is produced in the …
My project is covering emphysema, a respiratory condition. Emphysema is a type of Chronic obstructive pulmonary disease ( COPD), which causes the pulmonary capillaries to get irreversibly damaged. This disease is a pathological condition. This disease is a result of people with a history of smoking. There are two types …
Our liver is one of the largest organs in our body. The liver plays a central role in all metabolic processes in the body. Blood flows from the digestive organs through the portal vein to the liver carrying nutrients, waste, and toxic substances. Once they reach the liver, they are …
