Kinesiology 2000A/B Lecture Notes - Lecture 1: Ventricular Assist Device, Ventricular Septal Defect, Congenital Heart Defect

• School: Western University
• Department: Kinesiology
• Course: Kinesiology 2000A/B
• Professor: Vincent Liardi

Document Summary

Physical and psychological determinants of clinical kinesiology in an aging population or chronic disease state. Office 2360 this building congenital: born with heart disease. Clinical case study 1: adult congenital heart disease univetricular heart ventricular septal defect tetralogy of fallout. Patent ductus marian syndrome blue babies: have congenital heart disease, not getting enough oxygen. Have to typically go through lots of surgeries. One in 100 babies are born with this, ranges form sever to severe old philosophy: do not exert your self symptoms presented in adults: blue lips, fingernails. Ina regular heart you have 4 chambers, blood travels through these, creating a circuit with two major arteries. In this defect, the arteries are switched, so the blood does not go where it is supposed to go, the body never sees oxygenated blood. Patients can survive if they have a large hole in their septum so they can get some oxygenated blood, can be fixed with surgery.