Commentary Prediction and prevention of sudden cardiac arrest Heikki V. Huikuri MD See related research article by Reinier and colleagues on page 1705 and at www.cmaj.ca/lookup/doi/10.1503/cmaj.101512 Competing interests: None declared. This article was solicited and has not been peer reviewed. Correspondence to: Dr. Heikki V. Huikuri‚ heikki.huikuri@oulu.fi CMAJ 2011. DOI:10.1503 /cmaj.111245 CMAJ ajor advances have been made in understanding the causes of and treatments for cardiovascular
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This is a case study of a 76 year old female patient who is suffering from congestive cardiac failure. She has past medical history of hypertension‚ chronic renal failure‚ type 2 diabetes mellitus and hyperlipidaemia. She has been admitted in hospital several times recently and she was discharged 11 days ago from emergency department. Now she is suffering from dyspnoea and she feels like she can not catch her breath due to congestion of lungs. Congestion of lungs occurred due to congestive heart
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A Reflection of Five Weeks of the Co-operative Nursing Experience Rebecca Tutt‚ RN University of Texas at Arlington In partial fulfillment of the requirements of N3300 Specialized Topics in Nursing (Co-Op) Beth Mancini‚ RN‚ Ph.D. March 7‚ 2013 Online RN to BSN Introduction The co-operative nursing assignment has given me the opportunity to use my critical thinking‚ decision-making‚ leadership‚ and clinical nursing expertise learned throughout the RN-BSN program. “The fostering of critical
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Nursing is a profession within the health care sector focused on the care of individuals‚ families‚ and communities so they may attain‚ maintain‚ or recover optimal health and quality of life. Nurses may be differentiated from other health care providers by their approach to patient care‚ training‚ and scope of practice. Nurses practice in a wide diversity of practice areas with a different scope of practice and level of prescriber authority in each. Many nurses provide care within the ordering scope
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Case Studies on Cardiac Function This is the first case study that is required for the class. Please submit a paper (doesn’t have to be long; you could even give me bullet-point answers to the questions listed below) that answers all of the questions posed after Case Study 1. I have included an easy second case study which‚ if you complete it‚ will be worth extra credit. Answers to the first Case Study are worth 25 points and responding to Case Study 1 is required work for the course. The extra
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the contribution of reflective practice for clinical nursing. Reflection has been defined as a way for individuals to “capture their experience‚ think about it‚ mull it over and evaluate” (Boud et al 1985: 19) Argyris and Schon (1974) suggest that practitioners often practice at less than effective levels because they follow routine. Johns (1995) implies that action can be taken through reflection to increase effectiveness in practice as reflection provides opportunities for self development as professionals
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Introduction Tele-nursing is the use of telecommunications technology such as videos‚ computers and tele-monitoring technologies to provide nursing care and advice at a distance. This growing technology offers many advantages in the delivery of healthcare information‚ disease monitoring‚ health promotion and disease prevention services‚ as well as nursing diagnosis‚ treatment and education to patient at home from a centralized location. Tele-nursing can be instrumental in helping patients
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givers properly examine this muscle‚ one component that allows this examination is the cardiac cycle. The cardiac cycle involves a sequence of events affiliated with the flow of blood within the heart during a complete heartbeat‚ which include atrial systole and diastole followed by ventricular systole and diastole. Systole indicates contraction whereas diastole indicates relaxation. The first phase of the cardiac cycle is Atrial systole‚ or Atrial contraction in which contraction of the atria tops
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MegaCode Case Study Chamberlain College of Nursing Professor Amber Essman Critical Care (NR 340) July 11‚ 2013 MegaCode Case Study 1. Describe the preoperative and postoperative care of a client having PTCA/cardiac cath. What complications can occur post cardiac cath? The goal of PCI (percutaneous Transluminal intervention) is to open the blockage in the coronary artery. By opening the area that is blocked‚ it will help to reperfuse the myocardium. The faster this is done will help
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Compare and contrast cardiac and smooth muscle. In cardiac muscle‚ each heartbeat is triggered by the hearts own pacemaker cells‚ which initiate electrical discharge and when this reaches the contractile muscle cells (the cardiomyocytes)‚ they create an action potential which increases the concentration of calcium ions into the cell. Calcium ions play a key role in activating what is known as the contractile machinery – the actin and myosin filaments. The cardiac action potential‚ unlike other forms
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