Sunday, August 7, 2011
Compare the beating and thickening of egg whites to the thickening of blood during A-fib and V-tach.?
I'm not exactly sure how that comparison relates but here is my explanation. First off I will start by saying, as I'm sure you are already aware of, that blood coagulates when it doesn't move. Almost like cement. If cement isn't constantly moving it will eventually solidify as will blood. The commonality with A-fib and V-tach is that the blood in the atria is not effectively circulating. In both cases blood is only being pumped by the ventricles. In A-fib blood is only quivering inside the atria and it is not being pumped into the ventricles (it simply trickles down to the ventricles). And in V-tach the atria aren't moving at all. Basically, in both of these arrhythmias, blood starts to clot in the atria from lack of circulation.
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