Aortic valve

chambers or “rooms”. The atria, are the two upper chambers that collect blood as it flows into the heart, and the ventricles are the two lower chambers that pump blood out of the heart to the lungs or other parts of the body. It has four valves, the tricuspid valves is in the right side of the heart, between the right atrium and the…

This assignment will explore the author’s role as a Cardiothoracic Advanced Nurse Practitioner (ANP) in Pre - admission clinic. The assessment, diagnosis and a recommended treatment of a pre – operative patient with symptomatic Aortic Regurgitation (AR) will be discussed. The Royal College of Nursing (2015) and the Nursing and Midwifery Council (2005) provide guidance for practice within the United Kingdom .Several features of an Advanced Nurse Practitioner’s (ANP) role, such as physical…

Bhimji (2015), patients with TOF are surviving longer than 15-20 years after their first operation. The major complication after surgery is the development of pulmonary valve regurgitation in which they would require a pulmonary valve replacement. Most patients receive a pericardial homograft and there is no telling how long these valves will last (Bhimji, 2015). These patients also have a risk of endocarditis and will need prophylactic antibiotic for some surgical and all dental procedures for…

Pulse pressures that exceed 40 mm Hg, like in the case of Gerhardt, is a risk factor for cardiovascular diseases such as mitral valve regurgitation or valvular pulmonic stenosis.2,3 The presence of the soft mid-systolic murmur near the upper left sternal border was also suggestive of valvular pulmonic stenosis.3 However, Gerhardt’s prolonged PR interval of 0.62 seconds, bradycardia…

The biggest reason she chose this profession was to help people. When she was a child, she was born with aortic stenosis. Therefore, she was in and out of hospitals all her life growing up. She ended up having to have two heart surgeries. Kelly remembers her second surgery that she had at the age of 14. It was at Egleston, Children’s Hospital in Atlanta in 1991. She had to have her aortic valve replaced with a mechanical one. She was in ICU for one week. She grew close to the nurses and decided…

differentiate challenge and threat. Ventricular contractility (VC), which is indexed by a decrease in pre-ejection period, a measure of the contractile force of the heart or the time from the initiation of left ventricular contraction until the aortic valve opens, was assessed in…

Out of the many cardiovascular diseases that exist today, Congestive Heart Failure (CHF) is the most common. CHF is the failure of the heart to distribute adequate blood supply back to the body through the heart. The heart muscle is weakened and is no longer able to pump blood back through the heart and often becomes enlarged due to the workload it must take on. When the heart begins to fail, the lungs also tend to suffer. The lungs can fill with blood; which is known as pulmonary congestion.…

from the top of the upper parts of your body. The right atrium pumps blood through the tricuspid valve and into the right ventricle. The tricuspid valve would open up once blood is ready to go to the right ventricle. Once blood has reached the right ventricle, the valve would close. The right ventricle’s job is to pump blood into the pulmonary valve and into the pulmonary artery. The pulmonary valve would open up once blood is ready to travel out of the heart through the pulmonary artery.…

The second noise we hear, ‘the dub’ is the sound of the closing of the aortic and pulmonary vales, occurring during ventricular systole. Abnormal- Heart murmurs are extraneous heart sounds due to the turbulent flow of blood going backwards through the valves when they do not close tightly (regurgitation) or forwards through the valves that do not open completely (stenosis). The Role of autonomic NS on heart rate The heart is controlled by two branches…

the tolerance of stress by the heart muscle in postmenopausal women. The results showed that exercises in combination with curcumin reduce the left ventricular afterload. Left ventricular afterload causes hypertrophy of that part of the heart, aortic valve diseases and high blood pressure. This study confirms that combing curcumin or turmeric and exercising is very…