Heart disease‚ stroke‚ cancer‚ diabetes‚ and arthritis are the most common‚ costly‚ and preventable chronic diseases in the United States. Seventy percent of the total deaths in the U.S. are attributed to chronic diseases and fifty percent of that deaths are due to heart disease and stroke. Total expenditure for treatment of chronic diseases is $277 billion (Chronic Diseases and Health Promotion‚ 2012). Disease management is the key factor in managing these chronic conditions and improving the quality
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Congestive Heart Failure Congestive Heart Failure is a condition in which the heart cannot pump enough blood to meet the needs of the rest of the body (Department of Health & Human Services‚ 2012). The failure can occur in on either side of the heart. In left-side heart failure‚ fluid backs up into the lungs‚ causing shortness of breath‚ due to the fact that the blood entering the left side of the heart comes from the pulmonary artery‚ and when the left ventricle cannot pump fluid out of the
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Case Study #5 Heart & Neck Vessels‚ Lungs & Thorax Mrs. Lee‚ 80 year old Asian American female Admitted to the medical-surgical unit with a chief complaint of “breathing problems”. She speaks broken English & requests that her daughter be allowed to stay with her. She is on nasal cannula oxygen & sitting up in bed. At this time‚ she seems slightly short of breath‚ but is not in acute distress. You note that she is pale & has a petite frame. Her ankles are swollen. Her daughter tells you
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THE MISTAKES OF JOHNSON AND JOHNSON: THE RISE AND FALL OF THE PALMAZ SCHATZ STENT Johnson and Johnson created a revolution in the treatment of coronary-artery disease by the introduction of a medical device called a stent. This device is inserted in blocked arteries and prevents them from closing once an operation is over. The premature closing is known as restenosis. The use of a stent almost eliminated restenosis and halved the long term failure rate. The hugely successful product helped J&J
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Epidemiology in the Elderly with Heart Disease Epidemiology in the Elderly with Heart Disease Public health promotes healthy living for each community through epidemiology. Disease prevention and control is the common goal of epidemiology‚ nursing practice‚ and public health. “Epidemiology is the study of the population in order to monitor the health of the population‚ understand the determinants of health and disease in the community‚ and investigate and evaluate interventions
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Atrial Fibrillation Columbia Basin College Table of Contents Table of Contents…………………………………...………………….………………………….2 Condition….………………...…………………………………………………………………….3 Predisposing Factors………………………………………………………………………………3 Onset and Duration………………………………………………….……………………….....…3 Signs and Symptoms……………………………………………………………………………....4 Diagnostic Tests…..……………………………………………………………………………….4 Therapies and Pertinent Medications……………………………………………………………..5 Surgical and Medical Treatments…………………………………………………………………6
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Nifedipine (Adalat‚Procardia‚others) Prototype Drug / .Therapeutic Class: Drug for hypertension and angina Pharmacologic Class: Calcium channel blocker. ACTIONS AND USESNifedipine is CCB generally prescribed for HTN and variant or vasospastic angina. It is occasionally used to treat Raynaud’s phenomenon and hypertrophic cardiomyopathy. Nifedipine acts by selectively bloking calcium channels in myocardial and vascular smooth muscle‚ including those in the coronary arteries. This results
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Artificial Heart Research: An Historical Perspective (Rayan R. Joshi Third-year paper Food and Drug Law Advisor: Peter Barton Hutt) Good reasons for artificial hearts: * There are not enough heart donors (“Each year‚ about 30‚000patients are deemed eligible candidates for heart transplantation. However‚ only a small fraction of this group‚ numbering about 2000‚ actually winds up receiving donor hearts. Given the current figures‚ it is unlikely that the supply of donor hearts will increase
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This paper will cover my experience while in the cardiac catheterization lab during clinical rotations. A 67 year old Caucasian male was emitted for emergent angioplasty with intracoronary stent placement for occlusive myocardial infarction resulting in cardiogenic shock. My paper will detail the medical diagnosis and nursing management of cardiogenic shock. Medical Diagnosis Cardiogenic shock is a term used to describe the heart’s inability to supply enough blood to the organs of the body.
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The Effects of Alcohol vs. Caffeine on Water Flea ’s Heart Rate. Title Page Abstract For our most recent experiment we tested the effects of immersing water fleas in caffeine and alcohol to see the effects on their heart rate. Before the experiment we hypothesized that if you place the water fleas in alcohol then their heart rate will slow down‚ and if you place them in caffeine then their heart rate will raise. For this experiment we needed water fleas‚ tap water‚ two pipettes
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