Why would knowing the heimlich maneuver and cpr be important?

To save lives, people from your family, children ...
The use of the Heimlich maneuver can save the life of a suffocating victim.

Muscles in the body us with a lot of things for example, if i wanted to lift a heavy box and had no muscle i would just collapse where i was because of the fact muscles hold us together. overall they are 650 muscle in the human body, all of them have different purposes and ways to keep us together. there are three types of muscle in the body skeletal, smooth, and cardiac muscle. skeletal muscle are attached to the bone and with movement. smooth muscle, this is found in the wall of our organs, such as our stomach, this muscle with movement   as well, without this muscle, we would only be allowed to eat small amounts. the cardiac muscle is the heart muscle and probably the most important one. these are only found in the walls of the heart and the heart pump blood to the other parts of your body. we have two different types of muscle fibers, slow twitch and fast twitch. slow twitch muscles enable long-endurance feats such as distance running. fast twitch fatigue faster but are used in powerful bursts of movements like sprinting. there are three different types of muscle contractions concentric, eccentric, isometric. concentric contraction causes muscles to shorten, thereby generating force.   eccentric contractions cause muscles to elongate in response to a greater opposing force. isometric contractions generate force without changing the length of the muscle.: //athleticquickness.com/muscle-contraction-types-part-1/

1.)dr. natterson- horowitz came to realize that their isn't much of a difference between animals and humans. just like humans, animals can suffer from illnesses and diseases like breast cancer, self injury, anxiety, and many more. she also discovered how they even treated and performed surgical procedures on animals just as if the animal it self were human. the los angeles zoo called dr. natterson- horowitz because they knew that she was a doctor and that  she would be able to recognize what was wrong with the gorilla. they knew that humans and gorillas were similar, so instead of calling another veterinarian, they called a doctor.