Cardiac arrest

insidiously and have deadly effects. It is important to know that the signs and symptoms of heart disease present themselves different in men versus women (Nursing Update, 2008). More often than not, men will experience chest pain or discomfort in cardiac crisis while women will experience nausea, vomiting, and back or jaw pain. Men are more susceptible to developing heart disease after the age of 55, whereas women are more susceptible after the age of 65. Common risk factors for heart disease…

corticosteroid treatment. APES will not resolve on its own and requires restarting corticosteroid treatment. 4 Five percent of patients may die of respiratory insufficiency. 3 Patients with myocardial sarcoidosis may develop restrictive cardiomyopathy, cardiac dysrhythmias, and conduction disorders.6 All patients with sarcoidosis will require long-term follow-up. Minimal follow-up includes a year physical exam, PFTs, CMP, eye exam, chest radiograph, and electrocardiogram to look for further…

sarcoidosis is cardiac involvement that ranges from asymptomatic conduction abnormalities to fatal ventricular arrhythmias, with clinical manifestation of the disease being present in only 2% to 7% of all diagnoses [2, 3]. Though conduction abnormalities are the most common…

activity helps you stay healthy and mobile", 2015). Including any type of exercise on a daily basis assists in preventing heart disease; thus, cardiac emergencies and CPR use. Even “non-exercise physical activity”, like washing the dishes by hand, gardening, and washing the car impact acquiring heart disease and aid in the prevention of potential cardiac emergencies. In many schools, physical education class is required, in which students achieve that hour of play while learning the importance…

Specific Purpose: To demonstrate and inform the audience how to properly conduct CPR on an infant. Thesis: I would like to make this occasion a subject of much interest in saving a life, it’s about learning to conduct CPR on an infant correctly. Introduction: Conducting CPR is an important technique. Performing simple procedures and following some specific guidelines, you may save lives if a basic treatment is administered until professional medical help arrives. Attention grabber – As a…

people who suffer from cardiac arrest outside the hospital survive. When someone suffers from cardiac arrest it is best to give the person Cardiopulmonary Resuscitation also know as CPR. Cardiac arrest is one of the leading causes of death in America. Each year, more than 350,000 people outside the hospital have cardiac arrest in the United States. The survival rate really depends on if CPR is given right away or not. Almost 90 percent of people who suffer from cardiac arrest die. Giving CPR…

on the targeted temperature management for post cardiac arrest hypothermia. The goal was to improve patient outcomes. Nurses in critical care from the Emergency Department to the Intensive Coronary Care Unit are invaluable in the implementation of Therapeutic Hypothermia (TH). The knowledge and experience of the critical care nurse at the bedside and in the advance practice role is essential to positive outcomes for TH patients post cardiac arrest (Goldstein, 2012). Laura Goldstein (2012)…

Elaborative Rehearsal and Cardiac Arrhythmias The process of memory is encoding, storing and retrieving information. The information is processed using visual, semantic, or acoustic ques. Maintenance and elaborative rehearsal are storage codes used to store the encoded information. Elaborative rehearsal is “elaborating” on the definition of the word using semantics, acronyms, or acoustic syllables. To adequately retrieve the information, you have encoded and stored you must use proper retrieval…

evaluation due to his involvement in study protocol, 16-H-0144, Impact of Elastin Mediated Vascular Stiffness on End Organs. XX is from Manchester, England. He was diagnosed with supraventricular aortic stenosis (SVAS) and experienced multiple cardiac arrests and heart surgery associated with this diagnosis. He currently experiences hypertension, difficulty regulating his temperature, difficulties with memory, migraine headaches, GI pain, and anxiety. XX is color blind. XX’s mother reported no…

you are older does not mean you are experiencing worse symptom than the younger patients. Older patients experience cardiac problems more regularly. 38.5% of people that received an icd were 70 years or older, only 7% were 80 and older. The only that your age as to do with is death (Yung et al, 2013). “For example, among those undergoing ICD implantation for prevention of cardiac arrest, 2 in every 100 patients ages 18-49 died whereas 10 in 100 died among those 80 years and older.” as stated in…