Heart Block Research Paper

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Being a student of electro cardiology, I have witness various clients not knowing about heart blocks and how common they are. Patients not knowing about the illness made realize that the word should go around heart blocks. Generally, a heart block is a disruption between the electrical pathways of the heart. Throughout the years, heart blocks were being misdiagnosed because this heart problem has the same symptoms of any other disorder or illness but since technology now a days it growing the numbers decreased. This complication can be caused by medicines or post surgeries complications and can be congenital. I have witness various heart blocks and different phases of it, but never imagined witnessing up close with a family member which made …show more content…
The page started with the question “what is heart block?” according to the university of Rochester medical center, a heart block is any electrical signals that cannot move from your atria to your ventricles, upper and lower chambers of the heart. Where signals slow down but do not completely stop passing by the chambers. Providing that information by the university, one has to understand the structure of the heart. This organ has four chambers. Right left atrium (upper chambers), and right left ventricle (lower chambers). In order to function, the heart needs an electrical system. This electrical system starts at a point called the sinoatrial node (SA node) on the right atrium. Then the electrical impulse are sent to the atrioventricular node ( AV node) between the lower chambers passing through the bundle of his and going to the Purkinje’s fibers - left right ventricles and making cycle to never stop. Moreover, the article categorized heart blocks into: first, second, and third degree. The author differentiates, between the degrees. As first degree being the least severe, where the electrical system slows down when the signals are going from the atria to