Download Heart webquest

Heart web quest
1. Go to http://sln.fi.edu/biosci/develop/develop.html Answer: How fast does the average
infant’s heart beat? Why does it beat so fast? How fast does the average teenagers heart beat?
2. Go to http://www.fi.edu/learn/heart/monitor/vitals.html
a. What do the 2 numbers in your blood pressure measure?
b. What are the units of the measurement?
c. What is hypertension? (Be specific.)
3. Go to http://www.nhlbi.nih.gov/health/dci/Diseases/heartmurmur/hmurmur_heartworks.html
a. Why does your heart make “lub dub” sounds?
b. What makes the “lub” and what makes the “dub”?
c. Click on “causes” on the left side of the webpage. What can cause an innocent heart
murmur?
d. What can cause an abnormal heart murmur?
4. Go to http://www.nhlbi.nih.gov/health/dci/Browse/Heart.html. Look up the causes and
symptoms of:
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angina
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aneurism (and when does it become dangerous?)
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arrhythmia
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sudden cardiac arrest
5. Go to http://www.pennstatehershey.org/healthinfo/hie/alphaidxc.htm to look up congestive
heart failure. (Look up right and left separately.)
a. What are the causes and symptoms of right-side congestive heart failure?
b. What are the causes and symptoms of left-side congestive heart failure?
6. Go to http://www.americanheart.org/presenter.jhtml?identifier=4676 to answer:
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What is an artificial pacemaker and why do some people need one?
7. Go to http://www.cbsnews.com/htdocs/health/heart/timeline.html to answer:
a. Who performed the first heart transplant?
b. When and where was it performed?
c. What 3 milestones are listed for Michael DeBakey between 1964 and 1968?