Situation: Two patients in their 70s present to the office at different times today‚ each with documented heart failure: one diastolic and the other systolic‚ and both are hypertensive. First‚ discuss the difference between systolic and diastolic heart failure‚ providing appropriate pathophysiology. ACEI/ARBs are the only medications prescribed for CHF that have been found to prolong life and improve the quality of that life. EXPLAIN the mechanism of action of ACEI/ARBs and how they affect morbidity
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The heart The heart is the organ that supplies blood and oxygen to all parts of the body. The heart is located in the chest cavity just posterior to the breastbone‚ between the lungs and superior to the diaphragm. The heart is surrounded by a fluid filled sac called the pericardium. Blood is pumped away from the heart through arteries and returns to the heart through veins. The heart is divided into two halves. The halves are then divided into chambers. The upper two chambers of the heart are
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Heart Disease Amber Brooks HCS-245 November 26‚ 2012 Tynan Weed‚ Facilitator Heart Disease Heart disease is what is known as the silent killer; to me I believe this whole heartedly. I hold this particular disease close to my heart because I had a lost due to the disease in my family. I had to realize that it must be really serious for the simple fact that it works so silently and could kill off so easily. I did my research on it and I now know the severity of it. Everyone
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Heart of the Aztlan In the novel Heart of the Aztlan written by Rodolfo Anaya I found many interesting comments or cultural beliefs that I could relate to. I found this book to be easy reading there weren’t many difficult vocabulary words to stumble over and it was interesting to read because of the words that were thrown in the story that were written in Spanish. Coming from a Chicano background‚ I was able to relate to some of the characters and what they were going through. This
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Open heart surgery can be real painful on a family‚ just as it is to the person having it. My father had to undergo this procedure‚ and might have to undergo it again. This was a devasting time for my family and myself. This occurred almost two years ago. The evening before my father’s surgery they had him take a shower or bedside bath. They told him to use a special soap on his chest and legs. This special soap kills the bacteria on your skin and helps to prevent infection after surgery. The
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BTech Project HEART ATTACK DETECTION AND ALERT SYSTEM Submitted by Guided by AKANSHA WAJGE Prof. VIKAS UPADHYAYA AKSHITA BHANDARI DIBYA RAY K. REVATHI NIIT University Neemrana TABLE OF CONTENTS CERTIFICATE………………………………………………………………………………………………………………………..2 ACKNOWLEDGEMENT…………………………………………………………………………………………………………3 ABSTRACT………………………………………….4 INTRODUCTION…………………………………5 OBJECTIVE……………………………6 CIRCUIT DIAGRAM………………
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Only The Heart is a novel written by Brian Caswell and David Chiem that tells a story familiar to many Australians. A Vietnamese family is threatened‚ pulled apart by the war in that country. Some of its members disappear; hard-earned wealth is lost. The novel leads the reader to a new understanding of refugees with the demonstrated views of pain‚ determination‚ survival and freedom‚ which are brought to life throughout the novel. The fall of Saigon in 1975 provides the momentum for Mai and her daughters
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The Rental Heart When you are in love it’s like everything in your life seems better‚ but when you break up and your heart breaks it’s like everything that was good before shatters. But what if there was a way for you not to feel the heartbreak. That’s the reality in the story “The rental heart”. In the story we get introduced to a world where instead of feeling the pain of heartbreaks‚ you can just change your heart at the local heart rental place. The main character in the story is a person
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of the heart October -08 -12 TUBE FORMATION • 15 days after conception ○ Begins as flat sheet of mesodermal cells (cells of the mesoderm layer in an embryo) • Day 18-20 ○ The cells form a horse -shoe shape (cardiogenic region) ○ Angiogenic cell clusters coalesce to form right and left endocardial tubes • Day 21 ○ Two endocardial tubes are completely fused • Day 22 ○ Heart begins beating • Day 23 ○ Heart tube forms constrictions prior to looping The first indication of heart development
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Heart of Darkness- Indexing Page Summary Notes 1-4 The narrative starts with the Narrator describing the scene from the deck of a ship named Nellie as it rests at anchor at the mouth of the River Thames‚ near London. There are five men on board the ship—the Director of Companies‚ the Lawyer‚ the Accountant‚ the Narrator‚ and Marlow‚ bound by the “bond of the sea”‚ old friends from their seafaring days—settle down to await the changing of the tide. They stare down the mouth of the
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