All the information from this exam would be sent to the Radiologist for reading, then a report would be sent to the patient's physician. ... The blood should e moving in a certain direction and at a certain speed. ... The speed of the blood flowing through the valves should be flowing at a certain speed, when the blood is flowing to fast or to slow through a valve it could be an indication of a cardiac disease. ...

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Discussion and Analysing of Lisa's Pulse Reading: The pulse rate is one of the vital signs that health professional check regularly on their patients as a prerequisite for any kind of treatment. The purpose of reading the pulse rate is to measure the heart rate. ... During the recording of the practical, I noticed that Lisa's pulse rate before the exercise was 65bpm which was a healthy adult resting rate. 5 minutes after exercising, her pulse rate increased to 100bpm, and 5 minutes prior to the end of the exercises, her pulse rate went up from 100bpm to 130bpm then to 150bpm, this wa...

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If a person is being active then the cardiovascular system must speed up to meet the demands of the working tissues. ... The heart is maintained by the parasympathetic during rest but once exercise starts that turn off and the sympathetic turns on and speeds up the impulses. ... A few errors that could have occurred during the test is that the ecg print out sheet broke and the readings were not as accurate the testers would of hoped. ...

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