Heart failure is a very common disease; whereby around 670‚000 people are diagnosed with the disease every year (Lien‚ & Alexis‚ 2012). There is increased hospitalization of people aged above 65 years because of congestive heart failure. It is characterized with the slow movement of the blood through the heart and an increased pressure in the heart. The heart fails to pump adequate oxygen and nutrients in the body satisfaction. Because of retention of salt and fluid‚ one might have kidney problems
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Given the current symptoms it seems that A.O is suffering from left heart failure. Dyspnea the medical term for difficulty breathing is often an indicator of left heart failure. The clinical manifestations including dyspnea are caused by pulmonary vascular congestion and poor systemic oxygen perfusion (Huether & McCance‚ 2012). Other clinical manifestations physicians find with individuals with left heart failure include‚ coughing up mucus‚ fatigue‚ and a decreased urine output. Physicians will
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Diagnosis: The patient seems to be suffering from Dilated Congestive Cardiomyopathy (DCM)‚ or in simple terms‚ congestive heart failure; specifically ventricular failure. Justification for Diagnosis: The patient said he had been suffering of acute dyspnea which would be caused by the lungs filling with fluid since the heart isn’t able to pump properly. Due to the patients hip replacement it is possible for him to have an infective agent even though he was said to not have one. Sometimes the disorder
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Market Failure Market failure can be defined as give full play to the market mechanism but still cannot achieve social welfare maximization. Market failure was caused by the free market fails to allocated resources in an optimum and efficient manner. Type of market failure can be divided into three types; there are externalities‚ public goods and non-competitive behavior. Externalities is part of the interests of people’s economic behavior cannot be classified for their own enjoyment of‚ or part
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in many of the markets. At times they fail to deliver the best level of output for society. The government intervenes using various methods to correct market failure. This report details the six different types of market failure which can occur in the UK in addition to critically detailing how the government attempts to correct market failure. 2. Externalities According to Samuelson (1954) ‘Externalities create a divergence between the private and social costs of production’. Social costs are
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If producers do not receive pay‚ they will not produce. This leads to valuable products not being produced (Caplan). This is what economists say is a market failure. Public goods arise from this line of economic thinking. These market failures provide no incentive for people to build dams‚ highways‚ armies etc. These are all market failures that cam be remedied through government intervention…i.e. public goods. Externalities can be beneficial and negative; much like public goods can provide beneficial
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CHF Congestive Heart Failure By: Navreet Kaur Malhi Institute Of Technology Congestive Heart Failure Congestive Heart Failure‚ is also known as heart failure cardiac decompensation‚ cardiac insufficiency‚ and cardiac incompetence‚ all having the same meaning; that the heart is failing. The heart has lost its pumping efficiency‚ therefore the heart is decompensating. No matter which type of heart disease a person has all heart disease require a lifelong need of management. If maintained
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Abstract Scenario A Acute renal failure: Ms. Jones’s‚ an elder female of 68 years‚ has undergone open-heart surgery to restore a number of obstructed vessels in her heart. On her first day postoperatively‚ it is charted that she has oliguria. Acute Renal Failure I will describe what is happening to Ms. Jones kidneys and why it is causing the practical symptoms and other symptoms that may arise. I will also give details as to what is causing Ms. Jones kidney disease and potential treatments
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Severe Acute Respiratory Syndrome is caused by a virus‚ not a certain type of bacteria. This virus belongs to a class of viruses called coronavirus. Since SARS was an outbreak caused by a virus that was previously unknown‚ scientist named the virus that causes SARS‚ SARS-associated coronavirus (SARS-CoV). World Health Organization (WHO) physician Dr. Carlo Urbani identified SARS as a new disease in 2003 when he diagnosed a severely ill 48-year old businessman who was traveling from the Guangdong
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Chapter 35: Nursing Management: Heart Failure Test Bank MULTIPLE CHOICE 1. While assessing a 68-year-old with ascites‚ the nurse also notes jugular venous distention (JVD) with the head of the patient’s bed elevated 45 degrees. The nurse knows this finding indicates a. decreased fluid volume. b. jugular vein atherosclerosis. c. increased right atrial pressure. d. incompetent jugular vein valves. ANS: C The jugular veins empty into the superior vena cava and then into the right atrium‚ so JVD with
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