Electrocardiogram (EKG or ECG)

The3 eletrocardiogram test the measure of electrical activity of your heartbeat. Small electrodes are applies to your chest, arms, legs, then wires are connected to the electrodes and the wires are

hook up to a EKG machine. The EKG provide information about the patient’s heart rhythm, a previous heart attack, increased

thickness of the heart muscle, decreased oxygen that is deliver to the heart. Each heartbeat has an electrical impulse or wave that

travels through and around the heart. The waves squeeze the muscle and pump blood from the heart.

Electrocardiogram machines

Antacids

Medication is used to treat too much acid in your stomach, such as

heartburn, acid indigestion and upset stomach. Antacid works as an opposite

of an acid which is a base. Antacid makes your ph balance in your stomach.

Primary ingredients are sodium, magnesium, aluminum and calcium.

Fractures

Fracture occurs when bone can not hold up against the forces. Fracture causes broken bones by the nerve

ending that surround the bones which contain pain fibers.

Different types of fractures

1. Fracture dislocation: a joint becomes dislocated.

2. Impacted fracture: when the bone is fracture, one fragment of bone

goes in another.3. Torus fracture: bone deforms but

does not crack.

Symptoms of a fractures

1. Swelling2. Bruising

3. Pain4. Dizziness (feeling faint)

5. Discolored skin

Some treatments for fractures1. Intra-medullary nails: steel rods

are placed down the center of long bones.

2. Plaster casts or plastic functional braces: hold the bone in position

it has healed.