Title: Safety of clonidine and quetiapine in post-cardiac surgery intensive care unit patients Purpose: Critical care of the cardiac surgical patient is a challenging and dynamic topic that requires a multidisciplinary team to ensure patient safety. Moreover‚ clonidine and quetiapine are commonly used agents in intensive care unit (ICU) settings. However‚ the safety of these agents in cardiac surgery patients is yet to be established. Hence‚ our goal is to assess the safety of oral clonidine and
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ARTICLE IN PRESS doi:10.1510/icvts.2009.203182 Interactive CardioVascular and Thoracic Surgery 9 (2009) 500–505 www.icvts.org State-of-the-art - Cardiac general Robot-assisted cardiac surgery Paul Modi‚ Evelio Rodriguez‚ W. Randolph Chitwood Jr.* East Carolina Heart Institute‚ East Carolina University‚ Pitt County Memorial Hospital‚ 600 Moye Boulevard‚ Greenville‚ NC 27834‚ USA Received 10 February 2009; received in revised form 5 June 2009; accepted 7 June 2009 Summary Recognition
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The purpose of this essay is to describe contemporary social determinants of health and well-being in relation to stroke. It will reflect on information about and demonstrate an understanding of the provision of health care at local‚ regional and national level. It will also analyse and describe the evidence base underpinning approaches to health and wellbeing and the relevance it has to stroke. For the purpose of discussion‚ this essay will indicate an understanding of local‚ national and global
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due to presence of digitoxose. USES The drug is used as a cardiac stimulant and tonic. The drug stimulates cardiac muscles‚ increases the systole of heart ventricle and normalizes the heart frequency. The drug is used in congestive heart failure‚ atrial flutter and
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y of ecgA (not so) brief history of electrocardiography. Find out how electrocuting chickens (1775)‚ getting laboratory assistants to put their hands in buckets of saline (1887)‚ taking the ECG of a horses and then observing their open heart surgey (1912)‚ induction of indiscriminate angina attacks (1931)‚ and hypothermic dogs (1953) have helped to improve our understanding of the ECG as a clinical tool. And why is the ECG labelled PQRST (1895)?  1600  1646 Sir Thomas Browne‚ Physician
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heart causing the heart to beat too rapidly (tachycardia) or too slowly (bradycardia). Types of arrhythmias include‚ supraventricular tachycardia (SVT)‚ heart block‚ atrial premature contraction (APC)‚ atrial flutter‚ atrial fibrillation (AF)‚ ventricle premature contraction‚ ventricle tachycardia (VT)‚ and ventricle fibrillation. Congestive heart failure (CHF) is when the heart no longer pumps efficiently due to a prolonged underlying condition such as CAD‚ previous myocardial infarction‚ congenital
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(a‚c‚v) and 2 descents ( x‚y). ( A) wave: is reflect the atrial contraction ‚ follows the p wave on ECG waveform ‚ and it is not showed on atrial fibrillation. This wave is reflect the end diastole
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C.‚ Cimen‚ P.‚ Karakurt‚ Z.‚ Kirakli‚ C.‚ & ... Yilmaz‚ A. (2013). Why do patients with interstitial lung diseases fail in the ICU? A 2-center cohort study Huether‚ S. E.‚ McCance‚ K. L.‚ Brashers‚ V. L.‚ & Rote‚ N. S. (2008). Understanding pathophysiology. St. Louis‚ Mo: Mosby/Elsevier. Lewis‚ S. M. (2011). Medical-surgical nursing: Assessment and management of clinical problems (8th ed.). St. Louis‚ Mo: Elsevier/Mosby. Micrmedix 2.0. (n.d.). Retrieved March 25‚ 2013‚ from Enter URLhttps://sjaxvpn
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student the realization hits that after all it is not as hard as it seems. Everything one doesn’t understand is taught in one class called EKG. One of the most important things to learn is the arrhythmias which are greatly different. The sinus‚ atrial‚ junctional‚ heart‚ and ventricular rhythms are all important part to learn and understand to fully complete such course. The first categories of arrhythmias which originate in the sinus node are called Normal Sinus Rhythm (NSR)‚ Sinus Bradycardia
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is reduced. There is no peripheral edema. Interrogation of his implantable cardioverter-defibrillator (ICD)‚ which is a single-chamber St.Jude device‚ showed a total of 49 episodes of supraventricular tachycardia. These are either atrial fibrillation‚ or atrial tachycardia. 48 of 49 episodes were between 150 to 190 beats per minute‚ which is within monitor only zone of the ICD. None of these episodes lasted more then one minute. He had one episode of supraventricular tachycardia‚ which was
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