Myocardial Infarction Nursing 231 – Task 2 2000 Word Essay Sharon Watkins Student Number: 1065277 Word Count: 2‚069 Sharon Watkins: 1065277 Page 1 Introduction Acute myocardial infarction (AMI) is a coronary artery disease (CVD) that affects the lives of many Australians. Various genetic‚ social economic and environmental factors increase the risk of AMI. This essay covers CVD in Australia‚ the major modifiable and non-modifiable risk factors that cause AMI. How the nurse’s role in managing
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Circulatory systems Closed circulatory systems: • Blood leaves heart under pressure to arteries then arterioles then capillaries. • Capillaries come in large numbers. They exchange substances between the blood and cells. • After passing through capillaries‚ blood goes back to the heart via veins. • Valves in the veins ensure that blood only flows in one direction. Single circulatory system: • Heart pumps deoxygenated blood. • Gaseous exchange (diffusion of CO2 from blood to H2O and diffusion
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Cardiovascular Risk and Its Association with Hyperlipidemia‚ Diabetes Mellitus and Smoking in Singapore P K Lim¹‚ T S S Shirley¹‚ H Y Shi¹‚ L K Lau¹ ¹School of Health Sciences (Nursing)‚ Ngee Ann Polytechnic‚ Singapore Abstract Objective: To find out the prevalence of hyperlipidemia‚ diabetes mellitus and smoking as well as to increase the awareness of cardiovascular diseases (CVD) among residents in Singapore. Design: Cross sectional study‚ quantitative study‚ convenience sampling. Setting:
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Regular Exercise Will Save Your Life Regular Exercise Will Save Your Life Being physically active is the most beneficial thing for the human body‚ physically and mentally. Exercise decreases the risks of heart disease‚ diabetes‚ and stroke. It treats and prevents depression‚ increases muscle strength and cognitive function‚ and prevents obesity. It’s estimated that only 20% of the people in America get enough exercise‚ with an obesity rate of over 25% and an overweight rate of over 35%. Depression
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Heart disease is a term for any type of disorder that affects the heart. Every year in the US heart disease claims 800‚000 people. That’s 34% of all deaths and 2‚400 people every day. 80 million (one in three) Americans live with this disease. Heart disease is the number one killer in the United States. Coronary artery disease is one type of disorder that affects the heart. It is the most common heart disease. Coronary artery disease‚ or simply CAD‚ is caused by the build up of plaque in
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Balloon Angioplasty Introduction: Angioplasty is a technique that broadens a narrow or congested blood vessel using a inflatable catheter. It is used to treat atherosclerosis (blood vessel impediments)‚ and regularly made by an interventional cardiologist‚ a medical doctor with distinctive training in the handling of the heart‚ using invasive catheter-based measures. Angioplasty is frequently achieved as a minimally-invasive technique‚ where a stent is implanted into the blood vessel to preserve
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acids‚ obesity‚ lack of exercise‚ etc. For the first time‚ an Indian plant known as Aloe vera belonging to the Liliacee family along with the Husk of Isabgol‚ was tried on five thousand patients who had proved ischaemic heart disease due to atherosclerosis and the above two herbal medicines proved to be very effective when mixed with wheat flour paste before
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Coronary artery bypass surgery‚ also coronary artery bypass graft (CABG‚ pronounced "cabbage") surgery‚ and colloquially heart bypass orbypass surgery is a surgical procedure performed to relieve angina and reduce the risk of death from coronary artery disease. Arteries or veins from elsewhere in the patient ’s body are grafted to the coronary arteries to bypass atherosclerotic narrowings and improve the blood supply to the coronary circulation supplying the myocardium (heart muscle). This surgery
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Disease. The buildup of cholesterol over time in the coronary arteries causes the lumen to become narrowed and hardened which promote the formation of plaques to develop (Heart attack‚ 2011). The formation of plaques throughout the body is termed atherosclerosis and when it specifically occurs to the heart it is classified as Coronary Artery disease. There are nine identifiable risk factors that have been known to contribute to a Coronary Artery Disease (Heart attack‚ 2011). The contributors include:
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The number leading cause of death among women in the United States (US) is heart disease; it is also the leading cause of disability among women. Currently‚ “8 million women in the US are living with heart disease; 35‚000 are under the age of 65” (Women’s Heart Foundation‚ 2011). Among American women in 2005 over 36 million were age 55 or older increasing their risk of coronary heart disease (Garvin‚ Moser‚ Riegel‚ McKinley‚ Doering‚ & An‚ 2003). . Coronary heart disease claims the lives of over
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