In this week’s we got to take a look at an article called Learning to Move by Karen E. Adolph. In this article she talks about the discovering of moving for babies. She states that infants must cope with variable and novel conquering gravity infants must cope with variable and novel constraints on balance and propulsion. Before reading this article I wanted to know about how infants are able to cope with the ability to move and learn about flexibility and specificity. In her article she wanted to
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Practice development issues around Induced Therapeutic Hypothermia (ITH) on Cardiac Arrest Patients Contents 1. Introduction 2. Pathophysiological changes during cardiac arrest and return of spontaneous circulation 3. Physiological benefits of therapeutic hypothermia 4. Guideline for induced therapeutic hypothermia after cardiac arrest 5. The UHL guideline’s goal of therapeutic hypothermia 6. Preparation‚ Monitoring and Supportive therapy 7. Cooling Methods 8. The relative experience 9
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ii of the PALS provider manual is very helpful. This site has a pretest and other helpful tools. This document contains information on the PALS 2010 Guidelines. Basic Dysrhythmias knowledge is required in relation to asystole‚ ventricular fibrillation‚ tachycardias in general and bradycardias in general. You do not need to know the ins and outs of each and every one. Tachycardias need to differentiate wide complex (ventricular tachycardia) and narrow complex (supraventricular tachycardia or
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blood back down to the ventricles but the aortic semi lunar valve is has shut itself so blood may not backwash back into the ventricles. During this time‚ blood will be slowly returning back into the left atrium by ventricular diastole second phase & atrial systole but do note that the atrioventricular valves are still closed so blood doesn ’t wash into the ventriculars. Blood will travel through arteries then to arterioles and lastly to capillaries so it may begin a gas exchange of oxygenated blood
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| OSTEOPOROSIS ILLUSTRATED ESSAY | WORD COUNT: 1689 WORDS | | 43 | DUE DATE: September 3RD‚ 2012 | | BACKGROUND Osteoporosis is the most common metabolic bone disease (Utiger‚ 2012). It is a condition in which the bones become fragile and brittle‚ leading to a higher risk of fractures than in normal bone. (Osteoporosis Australia‚ 2012). This disorder is most common in postmenopausal women over [the] age [of] 50. It has been estimated that approximately one-fourth of the world’s
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MSc in Cardiology 2010-2011-CVSM 5001 Basic Cardiology (28 Dec 2010) Objectives of this Lecture Termination of Pregnancy: Ethical and Practical Consideration Tam‚ Wing Hung Associate Professor Department of Obstetrics & Gynaecology CUHK 1. Importance of pre‐conceptional counselling for patients with cardiac disease 2. Conditions for TOP 3. Legal aspect of TOP 4. Methods of TOP 5. Risk of TOP: specific to cardiac patient 6. An example of cardiomyopathy Physiological Changes • Increase in the intravascular volume
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1. What do those numbers (130/87) mean? What do they relate to in the cardiac cycle? The numbers 130/87 is the blood pressure of the patient. The top number 130‚ is the reading that is received when the heart is in contraction and blood is pushed out of the heart into the rest of the body (this is called systole). The bottom number 87‚ is the reading when the heart is at it relaxed state and is being refilled with blood (this is called diastole.) 2. This deposition of platelets and fibrin can
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is followed by an unusual plateau‚ and the cardiac action potential can be split into five main phases. Cardiomyocytes are also electrically coupled – so they all contract and relax in unison‚ enabling for a unified response in the heart (i.e. the atrial and ventral muscles contract in unison) In cardiac cells‚ the
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WEEK 1 GEN Adverse reactions for drugs occur because: No drug has only one receptor it binds to. A drug that occupies and "turns on" a receptor is an: agonist Before marketing a new drug‚ the drug company asks the FDA to approve its choice of: trade name The time between when a drug response is observable and when there is no longer an observable drug effect is called the duration of action This term refers to how much of a drug must be given to see a desired response potency
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an action potential? P wave: atrial depolarization; QRS complex which represents the onset of ventricular depolarization; T wave: ventricular replarization 22. What is the diagnostic significance of the ECG? Useful in diagnosing abnormal cardiac rhythms and conduction patterns and in following the course of recovery from a heart attack 23. How does each ECG wage relate to contraction and relaxation of the atria and ventricles? First wave: represents atrial depolarization which causes contraction
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