Organisation

• Treatment of bloodloss


  • Saline fluid ( removing air bubbles ) while the body makes new cells
• Pacemaker treatments 


  Artificial device wires mimics pacemakers
• Treatments to valves


  Biological - human donor - animal

  mechanical- Titanium - polymers
• Treatment to heart failure


  Donor / transplant

  or artificial
• Coronary heart disease 


  Artery narrowed due to fatty deposits

  -> less blood delivered
• Treatments to coronary heart disease 


  • Stents/wire mesh
  • Statins
• What are statins 


  Medicines that lower cholesterol production
• Disadvantages of statins


  • Could lead to kidney and liver damage
  • Needs to be taken regularly / relies on memory
• Disadvantage to stents 


  • risk of blood clotting near stent - through thrombosis
• What causes fatty deposits 


  • cholesterol is a lipid your body makes and needs ->transported in the blood
  • If too much cholesterol transported excess contributes to fatty deposits
• What can lead to coronary heart disease 


  • Poor diet
  • Lack of exercise
  • genetics can increase LDL
  • Bad cholesterol levels in blood
• Function of a red blood cell

  To carry oxygen
• Purpose of a white blood cell


  Defend against pathogens

  • Engulf
  • antitoxins
  • antibodies
• Function of platelets 


  Blood clotting at sides of wounds
• Function of plasma


  Carries;

  • Urea
  • Blood cells
  • Hormones
  • Carbon dioxide
  • amino acids
  • glucose