It implies that the attacks must be recurrent, and unexpected. The patient must be experiencing at least four of the symptoms. The symptoms are palpitations or increased heart rate. Sweating, shortness of breath, or choking is also a part of the list. Celera palsy, dizziness, and de-realization also fit the list (DSM5).…
What is the type of shock that you can expect in this person. What are some of the signs and symptoms of Shock? ( 1 point) Cardogenic shock and the symptoms are low blood pressure, rapid pulse, decreased urinated and altered mental status/ 9b Explain in detail the short term and Long term compensatory mechanisms that come into play as a result of the condition in…
I1. You walk into Anna’s room and on initial assessment you found Anna is restless. The patient care tech just finished doing the vital signs on Anna and handed over it to you; BP: 170/84 mm Hg Pulse: 122 beats/minute Respirations: 40/minute Pulse Oximetry: 96% on the BiPAP Oral Temperature: 98.6F (Her last ABG done 30 minutes before shows pH of 7.38, Pco2 of 40, Po2 of 110, and HCo3 of 24) Anna is found restless, pulling on to the mask trying to remove it and the patient care tech is resisting her.…
Death is often a hard thing to understand and very emotional for everyone who is affected by it. More times than not it is hard to react in the proper way when someone else is dealing with a death. The book “Final Gifts: Understanding the Special Awareness, Needs and Communication of the Dying” by Maggie Callan and Patricia Kelley is all about Hospice care nurses. They tell many stories about their dying patients and their families reactions to the death process. Most of the stories show how to better listen to someone who is dying, how to react to certain situations not just initially react but truly analyze the situation, how to make both the dying and the people around them that more comfortable and also they showed the steps of grieving.…
No matter who you are, and what acquaintances you surround yourself with, there is a vast possibility that you know one of the 15 million people -most likely one of the 5.9 million children under 18 - on earth who has a physical reaction to at least one allergen, most commonly being peanuts or bees. More often than not, if one of your friends who was allergic to peanuts ate a peanut, a physical reaction called anaphylactic shock would occur in their body, a possibly fatal reaction. If you are not aware of how anaphylaxis works, you may not know how to prevent it. To assure you are able to help prevent the shock, the key points of this essay will aid you in being well informed on why anaphylaxis happens and knowing how to stop it.…
Hemostatic resuscitation is further subdivided in massive transfusion, targeted warming, near patient coagulation testing and arterial blood gas analysis. The target is to achieve as soon as possible normothermia,…
After electrical cardioversion, the doctor may prescribe anti-arrhythmic medications to help prevent future episodes of atrial fibrillation. Medications may include: dofetilde (Tikosyn), flecainide, propafenone (Rythmol), amiodarone (Cordarone, Pacerone), and sotalol (Betapace, Sorine). Although these drugs may help maintain a normal heart rhythm, they can cause side effects, including: nausea, dizziness, and fatigue. Rarely, they may cause ventricular arrhythmias – life-threatening rhythm disturbances originating in the heart’s lower chamber. These medications may be needed indefinitely.…
Heart Failure- Case Study [Name of Writer] [Name of Institution] Heart failure Clinical Course of Care Clinical course of care means how the disease changes its behavior from time to time; it may improve or deteriorate, depending on the care that is being provided. Clinical guidelines should be followed, but the team has to practice the best individualized care in order to treat the patient well. Clinical guidelines based on heart failure are the primary focus of several medical platforms.…
Medical Management Treatment The American College of Cardiology (ACC) and American Heart Association (AHA) released the guidelines on the management of STEMI and NSTEMI in 2013 and 2014, respectively. Mrs. B will be treated based on these guidelines. Immediately on arrival, she will receive the following treatments: supplemental oxygen therapy to keep oxygen saturation greater than 90% or relieve respiratory distress, sublingual nitroglycerin to relieve ischemic pain, and chewable 325mg aspirin for its antiplatelet effect. Morphine sulfate will be considered if chest pain is not relieved by sublingual nitroglycerin or if anxiety or pulmonary edema is present.…
Don’t make it harder on the person who is already dying as someone that person loves you need to be accepting and supportive, make sure the person knows how loved they are. Every person’s life is valuable and each person is unique in their own way but no one should have to suffer a painful death when they’re already…
The arrow attack stimulates increased secretion of pituitary hormones, and the Sympathetic Nervous System is immediately activated. The patient might have been prompted to respond immediately by fright mechanism to avoid another attack. The Autonomous Nervous System entirely controls this response. More energy is regenerated to prepare for fright. It hence leads to the activation of adrenergic receptors which affect the formation of new blood vessels.…
Syncope is sufficient blood flow to the brain which causes loss of consciousness which also causes fainting. It often happens in patients with hypotension which comes from the heart not pumping enough oxygen. Some of the causes of syncope is dehydration, heavy sweating, pooling of blood in the legs, exhaustion, disorder occur with exercise and with palpations or irregularities of the heart also with family history of recurrent syncope or sudden death. Risk factors are usually being common in adults over 80 they are at greater risk of hospitalization and death. Patients who experience the signs of fainting of dizziness, nausea should lie down.…
The steps taken to achieve the best practice for moving the student to avoid further injury when experiencing a motionless casualty experiencing head/ spinal injuries would be best to: Identify head and spinal injury/possibilities • Unconsciousness - This occurs if the casualty is not responding to Aid being performed • Disorientation - Is caused when the casualty is unaware or unable to understand or respond clearly • Loss of feeling - This may occur if the spinal cord has been damaged. This may result in short or long term damage to the casualty • Loss of control of limbs - Due to brain or spinal damage the casualty may not be able to have direct control of the function of their limbs • Sever pain- due to direct impact and trauma on the body • Headache- effect of impact and trauma from incident, this may be from internal bleeding • New Deformities - abrasions to the skin or broken/ dislocated bones • Skull deformities - cracked skull • Clear fluid from nose/ears (cerebrospinal fluid) from direct impact to head •…
Capital Punishment In California Capital Punishment in California has carried out seven hundred and nine executions from seventeen seventy eight to nineteen seventy two. In nineteen seventy two, the California Supreme Court in the decision of the People V. Anderson, found that the death penalty violates the state constitution. A few months later, California voters reinstated the death penalty with Proposition seventeen, legalizing the death penalty. Since then there have been thirteen executions, the last one in two thousand and six.…
Often times, people feel uncomfortable talking to and interacting with a person who is dying. This is at least partly because we have no way to understand their perspective, and what they are experiencing mentally, emotionally, and spiritually. In 1969 Elizabeth Kubler-Ross wrote On Death and Dying. Research and interviews began in 1965 and encountered problems because (1) There is no real way to study the psychological aspects of dying and (2) Patients were often willing to talk but it was hard to convince the doctors.…