Check your grammar now! : a cart stocked with emergency medical equipment, supplies, and drugs for use by medical personnel especially during efforts to resuscitate a patient experiencing cardiac arrest.
The vagus nerve provides a speedy line of information to the brain from the gut, where battles with bacteria and viruses are continually raging. Knowledge of the vagus's role was a mystery until very recently, but we now know that you can learn about your body from your vagus.
Some of the main functions of the Vagus Nerve include, 1  Breathing. 2  Speech. 3  Sweating. Helping in keeping the larynx open during breathing.  Monitoring and regulating the 1  heartbeat. Informing the brain of the food that is ingested and food that has been digested.  The Vagus Nerve performs the major function of emptying the gastric region of food.