is called a quadruple bypass heart surgery. Do you know what an open heart surgery is?” I nodded. “It’s like that. The surgeons are taking blood vessels from other parts of the body and replacing them in the diseased artery. It’s a quadruple because they have to bypass 4 arteries‚ which is very serious.” I frowned‚ yet I was pleased with his detailed and intelligent
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What are the coronary circulatory routes and how does it compare to the portal circulatory route you ask? They are both routes but different in many ways because of how they circulate the blood throughout the body. The coronary circulatory system deals with how the blood of the heart circulates to help the heart function itself. But the systemic route differs from the other route. In the systemic route blood is moved through the body providing it with oxygen and nutrients while blood with no oxygen
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playing and eating‚ etc. Some individuals can’t partake in those activities because they suffer from cardiac problems. According to USA Today (Society for the Advancement of Education): “More than 2‚600 Americans die each day from cardiovascular diseases‚ an average of a death every 33 seconds and “At least 250‚000 individuals a year die of heart attack within one hour of the onset of symptoms and before they reach a hospital.” The Automatic External Defibrillator (AED) is a pinnacle of medical
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into the body. It travels through many parts of the body before it reaches the heart. The coronary circulatory routes is in the heart. It starts off at the superior venacava. After it reaches the venacava‚ in then travels into other parts of the heart before it is finally absorbed and the whole process starts over again. The difference between the coronary circulatory routes and the systemic route. Coronary circulatory routes is throughout the heart. It has to do with how the blood flows through
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A Bill of Health That Doesn’t Add Up At the request of the Tampa Tribune‚ three insurers allowed a reporter access to hospital cost and quality information they post on password-protected Web sites for their members. The companies were Humana‚ United Healthcare‚ and Blue Cross and Blue Shield of Florida. A Tribune analysis shows the range of prices that Bay area hospitals charge for the same procedures. I believe the statistical procedure used in this report is mentioned in Chapters 2 under Data
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Privacy in Health Care Machelle’ Daniels Kaplan University Scenario 1 Jim Philips is the attorney for Karen Munstrom. Karen is filing suit against Howard Doe in a domestic dispute. Jim Philips sends Memorial Hospital an original authorization that is signed and dated by Karen Munstrom. The authorization‚ addressed to your hospital‚ includes the dates of the records requested. The authorization does not state the type or subject of the information to be disclosed. The records of Ms. Munstrom are
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Kimberley Ayala Discharge Planning Checklist Discharging a patient from a hospital setting should be very easy‚ according to all of the patients that are in the hospital and don’t care about anything at the moment except getting home. While the patient is inpatient there are many things that could go wrong‚ however in house the patient is being controlled and managed. When a patient goes home there are no monitors or hourly blood draws to ensure their safety and survival. Discharge planning
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Commercialization of Health Care: Good or Bad? Commercialisation in health care basically means setting up private owned hospitals which in turn are the ones set on the business ethics of profit. But this does not mean that there is no proper treatment. Its true that the charges are more and in India where there are so many poor people cannot afford such high charges. The govt hospitals draw a lot of people as because the charges are reasonably low and has some fine experienced doctors and
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The Risks Of Percutaneous Coronary Angioplasty Percutaneous Coronary Angioplasty or PCA‚ is a procedure done to help blood flow toward the heart. This is usually done to people who have heart problems that are due to blockages like coronary heart disease. In coronary heart disease‚ people who have not been taking care of themselves before are likely to develop plaques from cholesterol and other substances found in the blood. When these plaques harden‚ the blood vessels are narrowed and blood
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advancements in medicine occurred during the 1960s‚ which allowed for better treatment today. The coronary bypass had been done before the 1960s; however‚ with better technology it was performed more efficiently. In 1967 “Surgeon Rene Favaloro [performed] [the] first coronary bypass operation using [a] patient’s vein in Cleveland‚ Ohio” (Medicine and Madison Avenue). With the new efficient way of doing the coronary bypass‚ many lives were saved. As technology rose in efficiency‚ so did medical procedures
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