Life support refers to the emergency treatments and techniques performed in an emergency situation in order to support life after the failure of one or more vital organs. A patient requires life support when one or more vital organs fail, due to causes such as trauma, infection, cancer, heart attack, or chronic disease. Among the purposes of life support are: establishing and maintaining the ABC's of resuscitation (airway, breathing, and circulation), restoring the patient's homeostasis (the internal chemical and physiological balance of the body), and protecting the patient from complications of the underlying disease and its treatment (Morris, Stacey). Treatments of life support include: oxygen, intravenous (IV) fluids with sugar and salts,…
Specific Purpose: To inform my audience how to perform CPR when responding to an emergency situation.…
Crystal Jack has been the Administrative Director of Anesthesiology Critical Care Medicine since 2010. In this role, she has operational oversight for all service lines in the Division of Anesthesiology including Operating Rooms, Ambulatory Surgical Center, Cardiac Anesthesiology, Pain Management and Palliative Care programs respectively. In the Division of Critical Care Medicine, she oversees the Cardiac Critical Care Unit and the Pediatric Critical Care Unit, as well as the Procedural Sedation Unit.…
Cardiac surgeons are people who do treatments and surgeries to treat people with heart and lung disease. They also deal with vessels and organs. There are a lot of different types of operations. There is heart valve repair and replacements, heart defect repair, coronary artery bypass, aneurysm repair, heart transplant, lungs (lung disease). They complete the most surgeries in their field. Grey’s Anatomy influenced me because in that show it’s a bunch of different types of surgeons and I liked cardio the best.…
post-arrest. This research could improve all practices by prolonging the life of cardiac arrest patients. As most of these patients die from the lack of oxygen to the brain, being able to preserve the brain tissue will lead to more desired outcomes and decrease the mortality rate associated.…
This essay sets out to discuss the importance of comprehensive and accurate assessment on a registered nurses’ ability to make excellent clinical decisions. It will examine what factors can change a nurses’ capability to be aware of, and act on abnormal assessment findings. As well as assessment being part of the nursing process that is used in every day nursing, it is also a critical part of patient safety (Higgins, 2008). Assessment findings are used to determine what needs to be done for the patient next. Early warning scoring systems currently exist to aid in the early detection of patient deterioration (Goldhill, 2005). The rationale for the use of these systems is that early recognition of deterioration in the vital signs of a patient can afford opportunities for earlier, more effective intervention (DeVita, 2006). This essay will analyse the use of early warning scoring system tools and their relevance to patient deterioration and early detection.…
Typical means to cardioplegia heart involve clamping the aorta just above the coronary arteries to exclude the heart from the rest of the body’s circulation. Cardioplegic solution is then infused into the aortic root, which allows for it to enter the coronary circulation and stop the heart. Other means of cardioplegia include using chemical additions to perfusates or applying electrical stimulation.…
The heart functions to take deoxygenated blood from the body and pump it to the lungs to re-oxygenate it, to pump it back through the body. Without this system, body tissues wouldn’t get oxygen and therefore not function and the person would not survive.…
Mankind have been experimenting with defibrillator technology for over 200 years. Now are where with there being different forms of defibrillators and some of even tell how to work it, where to place each pad, when to shock the person, and tell when it's getting a reading on the victim to decide whether it is necessary for the machine to defibrillate. also have the defibrillators in the hospitals where use metal pads and they have to judge the electric jolt by the size of the patient.…
“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.…
95% victims of cardiac arrest die prior to reaching a hospital or care facility. By performing CPR the chances of survival immediately increase.…
This paper will be discussing the controversial topic of life support. Should it be allowed, should it be mandatory for a period of time after pronounced brain death? Or should the person in question be made the sole decision maker in the event of there untimely death and if no prior decision is made they let the person die. These are the topics we will be discussing in this paper.…
Now imagine for a moment that a loved one has stopped breathing and you don’t know CPR. What do you think their chances of living are? Their chances of survival will be slim to none. Expect for when CPR is performed immediately after someone has stopped breathing their percentage of survival is higher than someone…
Acute Coronary syndrome (ACS) is an emergent situation characterized by an acute onset of myocardial ischemia that results in myocardial death (i.e., MI) if definitive interventions do not occur promptly. (Although the terms coronary occlusion, heart attack, and myocardial infarction are used synonymously, the preferred term is myocardial infarction.) The spectrum of ACS includes unstable angina, NSTEMI, and ST-segment elevation of myocardial infarction (STEMI). In an MI, plaque rupture and subsequent thrombus formation result in complete occlusion of the artery, leading to ischemia and necrosis of the myocardium supplied by that artery. Although there are many causes of MI, in each case, a profound…
The article "Do the Poor Deserve Life Support?" by Steven E. Landsbury raises the issue of whether or not we should keep people on life support when they cannot afford it. Although it is a horrible situation I feel that Baylor Regional Medical Center did the correct thing by removing Tirhas Habtegiris from her ventilator. If hospitals provided her and others with this service for free it would mean budget cuts. These cuts would affect the care which is provided for the rest of the general public. Also, it would mean that someone else's insurance or taxes would have to cover the cost of keeping her alive. I did some research and saw that to keep someone alive on a ventilator would cost between 2000-3000 per day. Financially, it would be a bad idea to try to save every single person, rich or poor. Seeing as how the poor obviously can't pay for themselves, it would cause a strain on society to pay and use their own money that they would need themselves for vaccines, surgery, medicine ect. The general public would suffer because they wouldn't receive the quality service which they have been paying for. Economically speaking, no "free" life support should be given to anyone that cannot contribute back to the industry that is paying for the procedure. Considering that the life support we are dealing with here is mostly ones that will prolong the death of an individual, there is little to no benefit to keeping an individual alive. In that regard, they should be denied their life support request and left to die from their condition. Simple law of economics. If the cost is greater than the benefit, do not do it. At the same time it would be ideal to provide everyone with life support. This shows in my opinion that our Medicare system needs to change. How we will go about it I do not know. The end of Ms. Habtegiris' life was tragic. Most of us won't have to make such a choice as whether to pull the plug or not, that is the good news. It was wrong for Baylor to pull the plug…
