Daniel Hale Willams By; Erica Lamb Daniel Hale Willams was a man ahead of his time. He performed the first known open heart surgery in the United States, and also founded a hospital with an interracial staff during an extremely racial time in history. Daniel Willams was born Jan. 18 1856. He was born African American.…
Frank James is a 72 year old male who was admitted in the ward due to the exacerbation of his heart failure. His condition dramatically worsened, having developed pulmonary oedema as depicted by bat wings on his chest x-ray as well as signs and symptoms of cardiogenic shock. Vital assessment tools in identifying and prioritising the nursing care for Frank consist of the ABCDE of primary survey in conjunction with physical examination (inspection, palpation, percussion, and auscultation). This case study will explore relevant nursing assessments such as primary survey, physical examination, and the pathophysiology of cardiogenic shock and how it relates to Frank’s presenting signs and symptoms. Primary survey which incorporates airway, breathing,…
Normal pathophysiology of gastric acid stimulation and production. Normally the stomach holds around 50cc of fluid. There are several stimuli that work together in the complex process of the digestion process (Huether & McCance, 2012). There are three phases of gastric secretion, first being the cephalic phase, which is stimulated by the thoughts , smells and taste of food.…
Explain the significance of the thickness of the left ventricular wall. The left ventricle works harder as it pumps blood to the systemic circuit, not just to the pulmonary portions as the right ventricular does. Therefore, the left ventricular walls are thicker, to support the hard work that it has to do throughout the body (Martini & Nath,2014 p.685) The major coronary vessels are on the surface of the heart.…
Dear Heart, I’ve began my journey to become a Medical Assistant, and today I started out with the Electrocardiography class. For years I knew you were important to me, but in only one class period I learned so many new things about you that in nineteen years I had no clue about! Today’s lesson taught me a few of the things you do in there for me, about how you pump blood for me, panic, and relax for me. Therefore, I plan to care for you for many years to come, by mostly taking things steady, exercising, sleeping, eating and remembering what you do for me even after being taken for granted for so many years. We can start by exercising, a little exercising could help us relax and feel good about ourselves, a little effort won’t affect us.…
Diagnosis “A man has a heart attack and is rushed to the hospital, where the blocked coronary artery is reopened. In the ICU, his blood pressure begins to drop; he complains of feeling cold and nauseated. The doctors order intravenous fluids to bring up his dangerously low blood pressure. They do not examine him.” Lisa Sanders told this story in her novel, Every Patient Tells a Story.…
The Cardiovascular System: An Overview of Blood, Vessels, and Heart – Healthy to Diseased The cardiovascular system, also known as the circulatory system, consists of the heart, blood, and blood vessels (Mertz, 2004). The cardiovascular system moves oxygenated blood and nutrients through to and removes carbon dioxide and wastes out of the body’s cells. (Miracle of the Human Body, 2010) I will provide an overview how a healthy cardiovascular system does this by first discussing the anatomy of it, in a healthy state, and then the physiology of it, also in a healthy state, this will include how the pulmonary and systemic circuits work.…
This assignment consists of an action plan that will aid me becoming a cardiac physiologist upon my graduation. This is someone that is involved in the treatment and diagnosis of patients, regardless of age with heart disease. They investigate and monitor the workings of the heart by doing such, they retrieve the diagnosis. Consequently, becoming the “tools that cardiologists and surgeons need to diagnose and treat heart disease” (https://www.brightknowledge.org/knowledge-bank/medicine-and-healthcare/careers-and-courses/my-job-explained-cardiac-physiologist).This plan will help me progress in the right speed in terms of, giving me a much more transparent path to where I need to be and what I need to do, to actually become a cardiac physiologist.…
In the article A Shot to the Heart, by Stephanie Clifford, there is leading issue about wrongfully convicting an innocent person. The story that is discussed in the article is about a case known as the Potter murder. The Potter murder consisted of a group of men involved in robbing and murder at the Irene New Hope Grocery in New York. In the back of the Irene Grocery store was an illegal gambling den. On the evening of August 18th in the den of Irene’s Grocery two men burst through the doors waiving the gun telling the men gambling to get down.…
Introduction: In the early 19th century, if you are diagnosed with last stage heart failure you were good as dead with no donor. However, in 1957, at Cleveland Clinic, Dr. Kolff and Dr. Tetsuzo Akutsu brought the concept of an artificial heart to reality through a series of animal implants; in which one such implantation, a dog had survived for approximately 90 minutes. On 28 July 2013, 40-year-old Matthew Green left hospital and headed back home to his family after having his heart replaced with an artificial device made of plastic – the first UK patient to be discharged after having both sides of his heart replaced.…
The heart in our body is what keeps us going. If our heart stops beating, we pass out and die. There are many diseases that are related to the heart. There are three different kinds of vessels in our body, arteries are one of the three, and the other two are veins and capillaries.…
Aortic Dissection Treatments I. The Search Story When I was little, my aunt had open heart surgery to repair an issue in her aorta. Ever since then I have been fascinated with the human heart, especially the aorta. I used to pretend to be a doctor and walk around the house in a white coat.…
Frankenstein's influence on modern science The first spark of the transplantation of body parts and the future applications of scientists and surgeons came from the idea presented in Mary Wollstonecraft Shelley’s Frankenstein, or The Modern Prometheus. “The monster,” as it is called in the novel, was the fictional human creature assembled by the gathering of body parts from corpses. In Mary Shelley’s novel, the character Victor Frankenstein was a renowned scientist and surgeon who applied his knowledge to create a living being.…
Assignment 1- Professional integration I chose chapters 4, containing material on the musculoskeletal system and chapter 6, and containing material on the cardiovascular and lymphatic system. I chose these two chapters because there was material in each that I was unclear about and needed some extra time put in to learn these topics. In the musculoskeletal system, I have had troubles with keeping the anatomical planes separate and which motion is in what plane, need to review the energy systems, and the components of the shoulder I do not feel confident in. A few reasons I chose the cardiovascular system are arterial blood gas volumes, pharmacology, and some of the test procedures.…
Medical conditions are bound to increase due to change in lifestyles. One of the life threatening conditions is heart failure. The heart is a muscular structure that pumps blood to all parts of the body. Heart failure results when the heart fails to pump enough blood hence increased overload. The pathophysiology occurs as a result of increased workload on the left ventricle especially in patients with hypertension.…