Sepsis is a systemic‚ deleterious host response to infection leading to severe sepsis (Dellinger‚ 2013). A more detailed description includes acute organ dysfunction secondary to documented or suspected infection and or severe sepsis plus hypotension is not reversed with fluid resuscitation (Dellinger‚ 2013). The definition of sepsis is further defined as the presence (probable or suspected) of infection together with systemic manifestations of infection (Neviere‚ 2015). Dellinger (2013) emphasized
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clinic of a large teaching hospital. Today your first patient is 70-year-old J.M‚ a man who has been coming to the clinic for several years for management of CAD and HTN. A cardiac catheterization done a year ago showed 50% stenosis of the circumflex coronary artery. He has had episodes of dizziness for the past 6 months and orthostatic hypotension‚ shoulder discomfort‚ and decreased exercise tolerance for the past 2 months. On his last clinic visit 3 weeks ago‚ a CXR showed cardiomegaly and a 12-lead
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Daniel Valentine Ms. Blood Research paper 3/15/2014 Heart Disease‚ A growing Epidemic. Look at the highway just a few miles away. Right now you see the cars on it speeding along‚ nothing is wrong with the system. You see a bad driver and he causes disorder and mayhem. He causes traffic to move more slowly. Because of him‚ now other people cannot get to their destinations fast enough‚ causing problems outside of the highway. The bad driving causes accidents‚ and now an ambulance has to come‚ police
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Rheumatic Fever! Rheumatic Heart Disease By Kaya Michaelis Causes: Rheumatic heart disease is damage of the heart’s valves caused by rheumatic fever‚ which is caused by streptococcal bacteria. A streptococcal infection is caused by strep throat or scarlet fever.The streptococcal infection may result in scarring of the valves‚ weakness of the heart muscle‚ or damage to the hearts pericardium. Rheumatic fever mostly affects children from the ages of 5 -15‚ and occurs approximately 14-28 days after
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Biochemistry Fats‚ Diet‚ and Heart Disease ‘Fat’ can sometime be a word that gives people the chills when they hear about it. It is one of the three main sources of calories to our diet and a major part of ones dietary requirement. There are three kinds of fat: saturated‚ polyunsaturated and monounsaturated. The degree of saturation is dependent on the amount of double and triple bonds in the chemical makeup. Saturated fats are known to increase the body’s levels of serum (blood) cholesterol
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Running Head: Increase of Public Awareness on Heart Disease Name: Course: Tutor: August 13th‚ 2010 Introduction Health information that relates to heart diseases can be easily accessed through the internet websites‚ articles‚ and books‚ among other materials. These materials serve to increase the community’s awareness on how to prevent as well as manage the heart disease. The purpose of this paper is to delve into a new approach that can play a critical role of increasing public awareness
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Drug-Eluting Stents to Prevent Coronary Restenosis Szycher M‚ Ph.D.*; Armini A‚ Ph.D.; Bajgar C‚ Sc.D.; Lucas A * CardioTech International‚ Inc.‚ 78E Olympia Avenue‚ Woburn‚ MA 01801‚ and Implant Sciences Corporation‚ 107 Audubon Road‚ Suite 5‚ Wakefield‚ MA 01880. Copyright 2002. All rights reserved. IMX Paper v2 ______________________________________________________________________________________ Background – The development of coronary stents has revolutionized the practice of interventional
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Right Before a Heart Attack Wednesday‚ 26 Jun 2013 10:26 AM By Newsmax Wires More ways to share... Mixx Stumbled LinkedIn Vine Buzzflash Reddit Delicious Newstrust Technocrati Despite what you may believe‚ heart attacks rarely happen “out of the blue.” In fact‚ your body may be trying to warn you of an impending heart attack for days‚ weeks‚ perhaps even a month or two before it occurs. Unfortunately‚ by the time you actually recognize you’re suffering a heart attack‚ it could
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Heart disease is the leading killer of Malaysians. Heart attack came suddenly without the time and place. Plus now the number of heart patients is increasing due to various causes that are not taken seriously in the early stages. The first is the cause of eating. Consuming a lot of fast food‚ these foods contain a lot of saturated fat and high in calories. Fat will accumulate in the body if burning calories is not the case. This leads to increased cholesterol in the body then block blood flow
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Specific complications include Infection Infection can occur with any operation. In the hip this can be superficial or deep. Infection rates are approximately 1%‚ if it occurs it can be treated with antibiotics but may require further surgery. Very rarely your hip may need to be removed to eradicate infection. Dislocation This means the hip comes out of its socket. Precautions need to be taken with your new hip forever. It a dislocation occurs it needs to be put back into place with an anaesthetic
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