Sinus Bradycardia is a sinus rhythm with a resting heart rate of sixty beats per minute or less. One’s normal heart rate ranges from sixty to one hundred beats per minute, your heart rate is considered to be slower than normal if your heart rate is less than sixty beats per minute. During a normal heartbeat, an electrical signal is sent from the heart’s sinus node. The sinus node acts as a natural pacemaker located in the upper portion of the right atrium. The sinoatrial node produces electrical impulses that initiate each heartbeat. From the sinus node, the heart beat signal is sent to the atrioventricular node. After the heartbeat has traveled through the antrioventricular node, it is then sent through a bundle of His to the muscles. His is a series of heart-muscle fibers. At often times a highly active athlete can experience a heart rate of fifty beats per minute and show no signs of Sinus Bradycardia. This is because regular exercise has shown to improve the heart’s ability to pump blood.…
Bradycardia: Bradycardia is a slower than normal heart rate. The heart usually beats between 60 and 100 times a…
6. The Mitral valve or tricuspid valve is leaking. The sloshy sound will be heard during the atrial systole. The dub is heard during the ventricular diastole. The chordae tendinae, or heart strings, support the atrioventricular valve because the heart strings connects the papillary muscles to the tricuspid and mitral valve.…
This is the first case study that is required for the class. Please submit a paper (doesn’t have to be long; you could even give me bullet-point answers to the questions listed below) that answers all of the questions posed after Case Study 1. I have included an easy second case study which, if you complete it, will be worth extra credit. Answers to the first Case Study are worth 25 points and responding to Case Study 1 is required work for the course. The extra credit, which is not required, will be worth a total of 10 points. Both are due at the beginning of class on Tuesday, February 17, 2015.…
Tendon xanthomata: deposition of yellowish cholesterol rich material in the tendons, asociared with hyperlipidaemia. Eg on knuckles…
Monitor waves - p. 120 in Urden. A. P B. QRS C. T D. PR Interval (PRI) E. ST segment 1. Depressed 2. Elevated Rate A. Using monitor paper B. Six second strip Rhythms - p. 123, Urden, Stacy, and Lough A. Normal sinus rhythm 1. Rate 2. Rhythm 3. P wave 4. PRI 5. QRS complex a. Shape b. Width (duration) 6. Etiology 7. Treatment B. Sinus bradycardia 1. Rate 2. Rhythm 3. P wave 4.…
Inability of the heart to keep up with the demands on it, with failure of the heart to pump blood with normal efficiency…
A premature atrial contraction (PAC) is a kind of irregular heartbeat (arrhythmia). It happens when the heart beats too early and then pauses before beating again. PACs are also called skipped heartbeats because they may make you feel like your heart is stopping for a second.…
Normally, the chambers of the heart (atria and ventricles) contract in a coordinated manner. The contractions are caused by an electrical signal that begins in an area of the heart called the Sino atrial node (also called the sinus node). The signal moves through the upper heart chambers and tells the atria to contract. The sinus node is a natural pacemaker that controls the rhythm of the heart. Electrical impulses travel from the natural pacemaker through the atria then pass through a filter before running down specialized fibers that activate the ventricles. The atria are above the ventricles, thus the term supraventricular. The term tachycardia refers to a rapid heartbeat of over 100 beats per minute. Supraventricular tachycardia then is a rapid rhythm of the heart that begins in the upper chambers. When patients experience change in the normal sequence of electrical impulses and an abnormal heart rhythm occurs, they are having an arrhythmia.…
The Tale Tell Heart is one of the best books I read in middle school and is written by one of the greatest writers of the 18th century.Tell Tale Heart is based on a story about a man killing an old man because of his eye.At the end,the narrator managed to hide the old man’s body,and later on he confessed to the police because he heard the heartbeat of the old man.I believe theTell Tale Heart is apropriate for middle school kids.Even thogh the is about murder,it could teach kids about maturity and influence and encourage other kids to become gerat writers like the author of the story:Edgar Allen Poe.…
Heart failure is an ailment where the heart is not able to pump the required amount of blood to the body. Left-sided heart failure is described as when the heart cannot pump enough oxygenated blood to the body while Right-sided heart failure is when the heart cannot fill with the appropriate amount of blood.1 One or both of these may occur with heart failure. In the United States, 5.8 million people have heart failure and this number is continuing to grow.1 With the number of people with this condition growing, it is important to outline the incidence and etiology, pathophysiology, clinical manifestations, medical diagnosis, medical and pharmacological management, and prognosis of heart failure as a way to inform and decrease…
In many hospitals, the use of cardiac catheterization is used to determine if a patient has occluded arteries or grafts. This procedure saves many lives every day and helps prevent myocardial infarctions in many cases. The procedure itself is rather simple and safe for the most part, but one thing that many fail to realize is how hard the procedure is on kidney function due to the dye used intra-procedure. According to the NIH, kidney damage caused by dye is one of the less common adverse effects ("Cardiac Catheterization," 2012). By understanding the effect of cardiac catheterization on kidney function and implementing the appropriate protocols, hospitals and nurses can help preserve patient kidney…
Edgar Allan Poe; through his masterpiece provides access to the life of a narrator who insists on his sanity even after committing murder. The short story dubbed “The Tell- Tale Heart” provides an insightful view of the life of the unnamed narrator who showcases his abhorrence of an old man’s eyes that he describes as reminiscent of a vulture’s. Edgar Allan Poe uses diverse techniques to make the story a memorable piece. The techniques consequently bring out the various themes that feature in the short story. Therefore, the ultimate purpose of this literary work is to provide a conclusive analysis on “The Tell-Tale Heart”.…
• Hall, P., & Morris, M. (2010, November/December). Improving heart failure in home care with chronic disease management and…
“The Tell Tale Heart” by Edgar Allan Poe is a traumatizing story about a person who murdered an innocent old man because he thought that his eye was evil. The story states that the narrator was afraid of the eye and that is why he wanted to rid himself of it. The narrator had many signs of being proven to go to jail or to go to a mental hospital.…