NURS 3530: Caring for Adult Clients I HEART FAILURE CASE STUDY Your client‚ Mr. Black‚ is a 72-year-old man who called his TeleNurse Line from home and‚ based on the symptoms he described‚ was advised to go directly to the Emergency Department at his local hospital. His admitting diagnosis is exacerbation of heart failure (HF). His Ht is: 5’9”‚ Wt. 235 lbs. He states that his usual weight is about 220. Upon admission‚ his symptoms are: extreme shortness of breath; unable to tolerate lying
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Brain implant that works better than medication brings hope to thousands of Parkinson ’s sufferers Deep brain stimulation using an electrical implant works better than drugs alone in earlier stages of disease Quality of life can improve by up to 26 per cent after op Speech and walking improved by average of 30 per cent A new highly accurate form of brain surgery could bring hope to thousands of Parkinson ’s sufferers. A two-year trial shows deep brain stimulation using an electrical
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also let people know if they are at risk of cardiac arrest best known as a heart attack. Pediatric cardiologist are specialized to help infants and children. The determine what type of test should be ran on adolescents. Some can even keep a relationship with a child until they become the age 18. Cardiac and Vascular surgeons perform the procedures such as open heart surgery. A vascular surgeon focuses on blood vessels outside of the heart. Both cardiac and vascular surgeons work closely with cardiologist
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Animal experimentation‚ animal research and animal practice all generally mean the same thing. One may be more familiar with the term animal testing. Animal testing has been a controversial topic between supporters and the adversary for quite some time‚ but animal testing is wrong‚ even if it helps find cures for illnesses. Between all the strong public opinions‚ hefty fines and likelihood of the tested drugs working on humans‚ it is best if animal testing comes to an end. Animal testing came
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___ventricular repolarization_____ Cardiovascular System: Cardiac Action Potential 1. How do the waves of depolarization‚ generated by the autorhythmic cells spread to the muscle cells? _____via gap junctions______ 2. Depolarizing current from the autorhythmic cells causes the ventricular muscle cells to ___contract___. 3. If the sodium channel or the fast calcium channels are open‚ the inside of the cell would be relatively more ___positive___. 4. The pacemaker potential is due to a/an (decreased or increased)
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associated assignment link. Activity 1: Heart Sounds 1. What is the cardiac cycle? The cardiac cycle is one complete heart beat. During the cycle each atrium and ventricle will contract and relax once. THe contraction of the chamber is called systole and the relaxation is called diastole. The average heart has approximately 70-75 heartbeats per minute‚ each cycle lasting just under a second. 2. Explain the steps of a cardiac cycle. Ventricular filling: Happens during diastole‚ when the ventricles
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anesthetics‚ followed by the invention of syringes‚ and the development of the first vaccines. The 1900s introduced a plethora of medical inventions and discoveries. The electrocardiograph was invented‚ insulin for diabetic patients‚ penicillin‚ cardiac pacemakers‚ and even the first transplant of a human heart occurred in this century. In recent years‚ we have seen the cloning of a sheep‚ cures for most sexually transmitted infections‚ and even a vaccine that targets cervical cancer. As modern medicine
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voltage to the heart through the chest wall in an attempt to restore the normal rhythm of the heart during ventricular fibrillation. Defibrillation is a procedure used to treat life threatening conditions that affect the rhythm of the heart such as cardiac arrhythmia‚ ventricular fibrillation and pulseless ventricular tachycardia. The procedure involves the delivery of an electric shock to the heart which causes depolarisation of the heart muscles and re-establishes normal conduction of the heart’s
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Abstract This paper explores Tetralogy of Fallot repair and the four defects of the heart and its major blood vessels that it includes. The first being a ventricular septal defect which is a hole between the right and left ventricles. Narrowing of the pulmonary outflow tract which is the valve and artery that connect to the heart with the lungs. Overriding aorta that is shifted over the right ventricle and ventricular septal defect instead of coming out only from the left ventricle. Lastly‚ the
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rate of contraction and relaxation of each heart beat. This means that as well as beating faster‚ the heart’s individual beats are associated with an increased volume of blood ejected into the circulation per unit time. This is called increasing cardiac output. Two or three cups of strong coffee or tea contain enough caffeine (and a similar acting compound called theobromine) to cause an increase in human heart rate of 5-20 beats/min. Ethanol: Ethanol slows heart rate. At the concentrations used
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