TUTORIAL 5 HEART FAILURE Pathophysiology B. Left-sided HF SOB A. Right-sided HF Orthopnea Edema in the feet‚ ankles‚ legs‚ liver‚ & abdomen. If the amount of fluid is fluid accumulates in the abdomen. Fluid accumulation in the liver or stomach nausea & loss of appetite. Eventually‚ food is not absorbed well loss of weight & muscle. This condition is called Cardiac Cachexia Paroxysmal nocturnal dyspnea Tiredness & weakness A sudden accumulation of a high amount
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to other causes of myocardial stress‚ which included trauma‚ disease‚ or other abnormal states (e.g. ‚ pulmonary embolism‚ infection‚ anemia‚ pregnancy‚ drug use or abuse‚ fluid over load‚ arrhythmia‚ valvular heart disease‚ cardiomyopathies‚ congenital heart disease) . 4. The New York Heart Association (NYHA) developed a classification system‚ still used today to quantify the functional limitations of CHF patients. The NYHA classes are as follows: a) Class I : Degree of effort necessary to elicit
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Topic: Review your brainstorming ideas and freewriting exercise. Then use the chart to write an outline for an argumentative essay about whether or not you think it should be legal to download or share copyrighted material from the internet. INTRODUCTION: Hook: Copyright issues for the online materials have become a common law to many countries all over the world in recent years. Background information: Finding information on the Internet is becoming simpler and simpler with the development
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Essay Sentence Outline Subject: Favorite Pet Focused topic: a dog Thesis statement: A dog would make a great pet for me because dogs are very loyal‚ they are easy to train‚ and they are good company. First Body Paragraph - Major Point 1 Topic Sentence: One of the great things about a dog is that they are extremely loyal. Supporting Detail 1a: Dogs are always happy to see you when you come home from school or work. Expanded Detail: My friend
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When the heart is no longer able to pump enough blood to meet the demands of the body‚ it is referred to as heart failure or cardiac insufficiency. Congestive heart failure (CHF) is an abnormal condition characterized by circulatory congestion as a result of the heart’s inability to act as effective pump. Circulatory congestion and compensatory mechanisms occur. CHF may develop after MI‚ in response to prolonged hypertension‚ diabetes mellitus or in relation to valvular heart disease or inflammatory
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Heart Failure Heart failure is an ailment where the heart is not able to pump the required amount of blood to the body. Left-sided heart failure is described as when the heart cannot pump enough oxygenated blood to the body while Right-sided heart failure is when the heart cannot fill with the appropriate amount of blood.1 One or both of these may occur with heart failure. In the United States‚ 5.8 million people have heart failure and this number is continuing to grow.1 With the number of people
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inhaling second-hand smoke (Thangaraj‚ 2011). B. Exposure to tobacco smoke in public places cause serious heart disease and cancer (Jerome Reynolds‚ 2013). C. Babies and children exposed to second hand smoking in public places are at an increased risk of sudden infant death syndrome (American Cancer Society‚ 2013). D. Nonsmokers who are exposed to secondhand smoke at work increase their heart and lung disease risk by 25–30% (Road‚ 2013). II. Banning smoking in public places will eliminate residual
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JAN ORIGINAL RESEARCH JOURNAL OF ADVANCED NURSING A randomized controlled trial of self-management programme improves health-related outcomes of older people with heart failure Jung-Hua Shao‚ Anne M. Chang‚ Helen Edwards‚ Yea-Ing Lotus Shyu & Su-Hui Chen Accepted for publication 2 February 2013 Correspondence to Su-Hui Chen: e-mail: sophee@gw.cgust.edu.tw Jung-Hua Shao PhD RN Assistant Professor School of Nursing‚ College of Medicine‚ Chang Gung University‚ Taiwan Anne M. Chang PhD RN
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Based on the rubric and the Tutor Comments on Science and Body Image II‚ what are the strengths and weaknesses of this paper? Broad Topic: Technology and Education Narrowed Topic: How computers can enhance teaching methodologies in Jamaican secondary schools INTRODUCTION: The Jamaican education system‚ with its myriad of challenges‚ is one which is constantly being revamped in order to produce worthwhile citizens who can contribute meaningfully to economic and social development. With continued
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Congestive heart failure is the process in which the heart becomes in-able to maintain circulation for the requirements of the body at an effective rate‚ As the heart is one of the body’s vital organs‚ it plays an important role and has some degree of compensating mechanisms to balance the body’s needs with existing disease of the heart. Eventually when the heart is no longer able to compensate heart failure occurs; congestion will then follow‚ resulting in insufficient supply of blood to the body
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