There are 42 acute care hospitals in the state of Colorado. The complication rate for specific procedures varies greatly from hospital to hospital. Sepsis mortality and morbidity rates also range from low of about 8% to high of just over 39%. No one hospital provides the best care for all conditions and procedures. Several problems may account for these discrepancies: • Small rural hospitals may have limited staff that is not certified in all specialties. • Smaller hospitals may not attract the
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Period of Cardiac Muscle Lab Report Pre-lab Quiz Results You scored 100% by answering 4 out of 4 questions correctly. 1. The cardiac muscle is capable of which of the following? You correctly answered: c. autorhythmicity 2. Phase 2 of the cardiac action potential‚ when the calcium channels remain open and potassium channels are closed‚ is called the You correctly answered: a. plateau phase. 3. Which of the following is true of the cardiac action potential? You correctly answered: b. The cardiac action
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Care Values and Communication in a Hospital setting The care values are a set of rules and guidelines that every care practitioner has to follow in order to provide services to their clients. The overall aim of the standards is to improve client’s quality of life by ensuring that each person gets the care that is most appropriate for them as an individual. The three main care values are Confidentiality‚ Equality and Diversity and Individual rights and beliefs. By achieving these care values we can
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Nursing Care: Congestive Heart Failure Beverly Baum‚ Chrysten Brown and Christina Bhowanidan Herzing University Nursing Care: Congestive Heart Failure The general population is living longer than ever before. The Federal Interagency on Aging-Related Statistics (2012) states “The number of older people will increase dramatically during 2010-2030 period. The older population in 2030 is projected to be twice as large as their counterparts in 2000‚ growing from 35 million to 72 million and
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Heart disease is the number one killer in the United States of America. Sudden cardiac death‚ or SCD‚ is the largest cause of natural death in the United Sates. SCD causes about three hundred twenty-five thousand adult deaths each year in the US. Half of all heart disease deaths are caused by sudden cardiac arrest. Occurring mainly in adults in their mid-thirties to mid-forties‚ SCD affects only one or two children each year. Sudden cardiac arrest is not a heart attack‚ or myocardial infarction
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The cardiac conduction system of the heart consists of specialized muscle cells that generate and send rhythmic electrical impulses to the myocardium in order for the heart to contract (Cardiac Conduction System‚ 2016). When there is the normal rhythm of the heart it is called sinus rhythm and any deviation from sinus rhythm is called an arrhythmia (Saladin‚ 2012). Electrocardiograms (ECG) record the electrical impulses and help determine when there are any abnormalities in the way the heart functions
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science staff (cardiac physiologist). A cardiac physiologist’s role comprises of recording and analysing a variety of physiological data required to assist in the diagnosis and treatment of different cardiac diseases (Scst.org.uk‚ 2016). They are qualified to perform a range of non-invasive cardiovascular procedures‚ from electrocardiograms to pacemaker and ICD checks which I have observed during placement. In addition‚ cardiac physiologists are also trained to assist in cardiac catheterization
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Cardiac & Vascular Disorders – Self-Quiz I Info from notes on 01/22/2013 ------------------------------------------------- Top of Form Name the 4 chambers of the heart‚ and where they receive blood from: Name the 3 muscle layers of the heart‚ give an example of where you would find these: Name the 2 AV Valves (Atrioventricular) and the 2 SV Valves (semilunar). Valves keep blood flowing in one direction‚ keeping blood in one chamber until the next chamber is ready. The first heart
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achieving universal health care in the country The Planning Commission’s draft 12th Plan for health has attracted much debate and controversy. Critics have been quick to direct their attention at two issues in it — the proposed increase in government health spending from one per cent to 1.58 per cent of GDP‚ and the “managed care model.” The spending increase was rightly felt to be grossly inadequate to move India towards achieving universal health care. The “managed care” model was expected to relegate
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Cardiac This is an involuntary muscle‚ found solely in the walls of the heart‚ as well as in the walls of the blood vessels. This sort of muscle has similarities with the skeletal muscles‚ because it is striated. Furthermore‚ it has slight similarities to the smooth muscles‚ because its contractions are not under conscious control. On the other hand this type of muscle is highly specialised. It is under the control of the autonomic nervous system‚ however‚ even without nervous imput contractions
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