Alterations in the Cardiovascular and Respiratory Systems The Circulatory and Respiratory Systems

Alterations in the Cardiovascular and Respiratory Systems The Circulatory and Respiratory Systems

“Basketball is probably one of the best workouts you can have, as it is cardiovascular and plyometric.” (Donovan Bailey). Cardiovascular diseases and health conditions evince high hospital repatriation after intensive and holistic healthcare services provisions. Interventions and advancements in treating cardiovascular diseases resulted in better patient outcomes and healthcare efficiencies worldwide. Inadequate clinical management of cardiovascular diseases is the main challenge facing the management of cardiovascular diseases despite professional advancement in medical fields (Powell-Wiley et al., 2021). The number of patients losing lives to cardiovascular diseases has increased in the last three decades where researchers indicate that it is difficult for healthcare providers to adequately and appropriately manage cardiovascular diseases as the pathophysiology processes that result in different symptoms of the diseases are not well-recognized (Drew et al., 2020). It is critical to understand the pathophysiologic process of cardiovascular diseases with the same symptoms and provide patients with a fulfilling and satisfying diagnosis and treatment. This paper aims to explore a case study on cardiovascular diseases explaining the cardiovascular and cardiopulmonary pathophysiologic processes resulting in the patient’s symptoms, ethnic variables impacting physiological functioning, and lastly, look at how the processes interact to affect the patient.

The Cardiovascular and Cardiopulmonary Pathophysiologic Processes Resulting in the Patient’s Symptoms

The patient delineated symptoms of cardiopulmonary and cardiovascular pathophysiologic processes from the case study. Most geriatric patients have lunacy, chronic pulmonary diseases, depression and anxiety disorders (Williams & Carel, 2018). The patient in the case study could suffer such conditions, as the symptoms the patient reported were similar to those of cardiopulmonary and cardiovascular diseases. From the symptoms recorded in the case study, it is clear that the patient needed an immediate suggestion for cardiopulmonary pathophysiological processes. From the case study, the patient suffered from shortness of breath which most likely was caused by interactions between oxygen carriers, the respiratory system, neural response, and cardiovascular systems. This condition occurs when a patient’s breath misses respiratory ventilation, especially pulmonary ventilation (Ai et al., 2019). An imbalance between the chest wall structures, receptors, lings and central respiratory motor activities brings about shortness of breath. It is possible that the patient experienced pleural pains in the chest region due to inflammation. There are no clinical causes for any symptoms of palpitation, as it occurs due to abnormal heart movements in the chest.

Ethnic Variables Impacting Physiological Functioning

Various ethnic variables got an impact on the pathophysiological functioning of the human body, Some of the ethnic variables impacting the patient’s pathophysiological functioning include peroxisome proliferator activated-receptors (Fougerat et al., 2020). These activated peroxisome proliferator receptors function with a thiazolidinedione, causing blockage to the channel activities lowering blood pressures, promoting vasodilator secretion, and preventing the secretion of endothelin peptides. The peroxisome proliferator activated-receptor is more activated in European ethnic groups compared to African ethnic groups, Black adult experiences higher burden of cardiovascular risk factors such as hypertension and obesity and are more likely to die of cardiovascular diseases than white adults. Healthcare providers need to understand the ethnic variables impacting their patients’ physiological functioning to facilitate improved patient outcomes.