Situation: Two patients in their 70s present to the office at different times today‚ each with documented heart failure: one diastolic and the other systolic‚ and both are hypertensive. First‚ discuss the difference between systolic and diastolic heart failure‚ providing appropriate pathophysiology. ACEI/ARBs are the only medications prescribed for CHF that have been found to prolong life and improve the quality of that life. EXPLAIN the mechanism of action of ACEI/ARBs and how they affect morbidity
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Open heart surgery can be real painful on a family‚ just as it is to the person having it. My father had to undergo this procedure‚ and might have to undergo it again. This was a devasting time for my family and myself. This occurred almost two years ago. The evening before my father’s surgery they had him take a shower or bedside bath. They told him to use a special soap on his chest and legs. This special soap kills the bacteria on your skin and helps to prevent infection after surgery. The
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Heart of Darkness is a novel of indescribable horrors and actions that lie outside the human mind. It describes a mans (Marlow) voyage on a west African river to find an a man named Kurtz. The actual journey truly is towards the "heart of darkness"‚ where it takes Marlow by evidence of European indignity towards the natives. He wants to see this land for himself‚ he does not quite believe in himself of what is really there. This story hints at horrors that Marlow is incapable of describing‚ which
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Heart rate investigation Research statement: To investigate‚ how diabetes affect a person’s heart rate during physical exercise. Background information: Heart rate : Heart rate is the number of time a persons heartbeats per unit of time‚ usually measured in BPM (beats per minute). Heart rate is measured by finding the pulse on body‚ usually taken from carotid artery‚ which supplies blood to the head and the neck and radial artery‚ which Is located on your wrist below your thumb
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20 The Heart PowerPoint® Lecture Presentations prepared by Jason LaPres Lone Star College—North Harris © 2012 Pearson Education‚ Inc. An Introduction to the Cardiovascular System • Learning Outcomes • 20-1 Describe the anatomy of the heart‚ including vascular supply and pericardium structure‚ and trace the flow of blood through the heart‚ identifying the major blood vessels‚ chambers‚ and heart valves. • 20-2 Explain the events of an action potential in cardiac muscle‚ indicate the
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“The Heart Aroused” Thoughts for Reflection and Discussion Q. What would it take to start using the word destiny in the context of my own life and daily work? How do I grant magnificence to my own journey? How do I see the constraints‚ responsibilities‚ and weights on my life as gateways rather than barriers to the life I want for myself? A. By definition‚ destiny is a predetermined‚ usually inevitable‚ or irresistible course of events. In other words‚ destiny means fate. Destiny is something
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Written IOC – Heart of Darkness Extract "Going up that river was like traveling back to the earliest beginnings of the world‚ when vegetation rioted on the earth and the big trees were kings. An empty stream‚ a great silence‚ an impenetrable forest. The air was warm‚ thick‚ heavy‚ sluggish. There was no joy in the brilliance of sunshine. The long stretches of the water-way ran on‚ deserted‚ into the gloom of over-shadowed distances. On silvery sand-banks hippos and alligators sunned themselves
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Heart of Darkness Heart of Darkness projects the image of Africa as "the other world‚" the antithesis of Europe and therefore of civilization‚ a place where man ’s vaunted intelligence and refinement are finally mocked by triumphant beastiality. --Chinua Achebe In this quote Chinua Achebe is making his case against Joseph Conrad’s Heart of Darkness. He is saying that the novel shows Africa and its people as animals and the complete opposite of the white man in Europe. However this is truly not
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The Rental Heart When you are in love it’s like everything in your life seems better‚ but when you break up and your heart breaks it’s like everything that was good before shatters. But what if there was a way for you not to feel the heartbreak. That’s the reality in the story “The rental heart”. In the story we get introduced to a world where instead of feeling the pain of heartbreaks‚ you can just change your heart at the local heart rental place. The main character in the story is a person
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Kristijan Lovrić S. Runtić‚ doc. dr. sc. Survey of English Literature II May 15‚ 2012 The Darkness of Kurtz’s Heart The main theme of the novel Heart of Darkness is the darkness of the human nature and its destructive influence on human beings. This research paper aims to analyze the character and personal downfall of Kurtz and use him as an example for the darkness of the human nature. It will show how easily a man can experience bad fate; Kurtz was an ambitious man full of hope who came to
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