The heart is an incredible muscle with properties that are in common with your skeletal muscles and nerves. But it is a muscle like no other! For one thing, it can continue to contract for an incredibly long time without resting. Try asking your hand to do what your heart does and it probably wouldn't last 10 minutes, let alone sixteen years continuously.
This week, we will review notes on the heart with images and look at how a heartbeat works. Further we will explore the control of heartbeat We will also listen to our own heart with a stethoscope and I'll teach you how to take blood pressure
Here is a review sheet
