Heart failure (HF) is a progressive disease which affects more than five million Americans (Yancy et al.‚ 2013). HF negatively impacts quality of life and it is associated with frequent hospitalizations and high mortality. Evidence-based practice guidelines aid health care professionals with treatment management and provide pathways to optimize individual patient care. The main goal of treatment is to slow the progression of the disease and control its symptoms. These pathways address all stages
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Persuasive Speech Attention Getter: I would like to start my presentation off by telling you all to ask yourselves a series of fairly straight forward questions. I want you to take a look at you’re‚ any hand and ask your selves “Who’s hand is this?” Do the same with your other hand‚ and now both legs and your arms if you would like. If I am not mistaking the answer to all your questions are mine right. They are your hands‚ legs‚ and arms. What I am trying to get through to you all today is that
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Persuasive Speech Outline VISIT INDONESIA 2008 I. Attention: What is your holiday destination to refresh your mind? I think if we just visit the places we have visited before‚ it may make us bored‚ right? You don’t want to spend high cost in your pocket and you want to get great experience you’ve never got before‚ or maybe you are willing to spend high cost provided that you’ll get proportionate satisfaction like what you want? Don’t you think one of the interesting places nearby Malaysia is
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Persuasive Speech “Donating Blood” Specific Purpose: To persuade the audience to donate blood regularly if their blood is safe to be transferred to another human being. Central Idea: Donating blood helps save lives through a relatively simple and painless process that also provides numerous benefits to the donor. Introduction Attention Step: I. (Attention) One day while Jim was enjoying one of his favorite hobbies‚ flying small airplanes‚ the airplane crashed and Jim suffered broken bones and
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“Introducing sex education in middle school is very important as many cases of teenage pregnancy have been reported in the past few years” Final Persuasive Speech April 21‚ 2013 I am writing to persuade you of how it is important to talk to our young children in middle school about sex and teen pregnancy. Sex education is one of the most controversial issues in education. This has been hovering over educational institutions since ages. It is probably the most debated topic that will always
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Running head: HEART FAILURE 1 Heart Failure Joeselyn Sequeira West Coast University HEART FAILURE 2 Heart Failure The heart is one of the body ’s most vital organ. The heart pumps blood throughout the body which carries nutrients other organs need. It also carries oxygenated blood to the lungs which allows us to breathe. Since the heart is so important‚ relying on it that it will do its job is necessary so we can live‚ but sometimes
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Congestive Heart Failure Patients 1 KA R A M A S T E R S SAMMY RAMIREZ Heart Failure 2 Three major types of heart failure Left-sided heart failure Right-sided heart failure High-output heart failure (Ignatavicius & Workman‚ 2013) (CDC‚ 2013) (CDC‚ 2013) Heart Failure 3 About 5.1 million Americans have heart failure (CDC‚ 2013) Roughly half of those diagnosed with heart failure die within 5 years of diagnosis (CDC‚ 2013) In 2009‚ 1 in 9 deaths included heart failure as contributing
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Heart failure is caused by the decrease cardiac output and decrease perfusion to the vital tissues of the body. Cardiac output is depended on the stroke volume and heart rate. There are three factors that influence stroke volume‚ which are contractility‚ preload and afterload. Contractility is reduced due to Ms. Boehmer’s history of acute myocardial infarction. Acute myocardial infarction causes myocyte function disruptions. Ms. Boehmer’s history of hypertension‚ smoking‚ and coronary artery disease
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for a smoker the choice is theirs and I shouldn’t have to suffer with them by just merely walking by. Secondhand smoke is clearly a threat to both non smoking adults and children‚ so I hope we can take more actions to protect them. I also hope this speech will make smokers more aware of their surroundings and who they will be
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Assessment: Heart Failure: Mr. Jones with past medical history of MI‚ and be came to clinic today complaining of DOE that began 6 months ago. Currently he developed edema on his low extremities‚ and he gained 13 lbs recently. His LVEF is less than 20%. His SOB is worsening in last 4 days‚ which he has a difficulty to breathe after 30 feet of walking. According to the ACC/AHA guidelines‚ his hemodynamic subset is class II‚ which he has a warm and wet due to his sign and symptoms of edema‚ ascites
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