Atrial fibrillation

Community Resource Name of Facility: O.Z. lives near to the community resources such as Mid City Clinic, Sharp Grossmont Hospital, City Heights Family Health Center of San Diego, and The Salvation Army Kroc Center. The rationale for this community resources recommendation and client specific service(s): she lives a few miles away from these facilities. These facilities are all accessible by public transportation. For example, Sharp Grossmont Hospital and Senior Resource Center provide a free…

BAtrial fibrillation (AF) is the most common arrhythmia encountered in clinical practice, particularly in the aged population. Incidence and prevalence of AF have constantly been on the rise over the last decades and expected to double by 2050, partly because of growing aging population. It has been estimated that AF is affecting 8-9% of people aged 80 years or more and 35% of patients with AF are > 80 years of age(1, 2). Epidemiologic studies estimated AF to be in the rage of 1-2% of the…

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Lack of Oxygenation The first problem is the lack of oxygenation with Sallie’s congestive heart failure, atrial fibrillation, and hypertension. Hypertension (high blood pressure) can cause congestive heart failure. Congestive heart failure is a result of the ventricles not being able to pump an adequate amount of blood to the body. This causes blood and other fluids…

Alcohol is a socially accepted drink, but too often people take it too far. Although alcoholism isn 't a disease, it can certainly cause many severe health problems. Alcohol is considered to be a gateway drug, and can lead to an addiction. the definition of a gateway drug is a habit-forming drug that, while not itself addictive, may lead to the use of other addictive drugs. A recent study shows the first drug used amount 12th graders consist of alcohol, tobacco or marijuana. The results had…

the warfarin therapy. However, over-anticoagulation leads to adverse events such as haemorrhage while thromboembolic events can happen even at a recommended dose. Different INR is based on different treatment. For example, for patients with atrial fibrillation, it is recommended that the INR range is 2.0-3.0, as the incidence of both haemorrhagic or thromboembolic events are the lowest. However, various studies have reported that Asian population are more sensitive to warfarin than…

does have an implantation of a pacemaker they will need to have it checked every six months, this can be done in the doctor’s office or over the phone. When a patient has heart block they are at high risk for developing a condition called atrial fibrillation, or AF. "AF is a type of arrhythmia, it occurs if rapid, disorganized electrical signals cause the hearts upper chambers to contract very fast and irregularly" (Nihgov, 2016). The patients doctor will decide if they need any specialized…

critically ill. The germs in the hospital are also more dangerous than that in the community. Case Presentation This is a 59 year old causation male who was admitted in hospital with a non-ST-segment myocardial infarction and a chronic arterial fibrillation. One of the risk factors for Hospital Acquired Pneumonia is alcoholism, and the patient was an alcoholic.…

Accelerated idioventricular rhythm An accelerated idioventricular rhythm is seen in as many as 20% of patients who have an AMI. This pattern is defined as a ventricular rhythm characterized by a wide QRS complex with a regular escape rate faster than the atrial rate, but less than 100 bpm. AV dissociation is frequent. Slow, nonconducted P waves are seen; these are unrelated to the fast, wide QRS rhythm. Most episodes are short and terminate spontaneously. They occur with equal frequency in…

Common CVDs include: ischemic heart disease (IHD), stroke, hypertensive heart disease, rheumatic heart disease (RHD), aortic aneurysms, cardiomyopathy, atrial fibrillation, congenital heart disease, endocarditis, and peripheral artery disease (PAD). This category of disease is the leading cause of death globally except Africa. Together they have caused upto 17.3 million deaths in 2013 itself, up from 12.3 million…