Cardiac arrest

ibbs Reflection Model Introduction Engaging inter-professionally within seminars, practical classes and group work sessions in this module has developed my personal and professional skills significantly. Topics studied included Professionalism, The Patient Journey, Study Skills and Inter-professional Education but I will follow Gibbs Model of Reflection (1998) to illustrate how attending and participating in practical classes on Emergency Life Support and seminars on Teamwork were…

Cardiac Dysrhythmia Cardiac Dysrhythmia also known as cardiac arrhythmia is a group of of conditions where the heartbeat is irregular and or too fast or too slow. Tachycardia is known as a heart rate that is over 100 beats per minute for adults ,while Bradycardia is too slow with below 60 beats per minute. Majority of arrhythmia issues are not serious, but some predispose one to complications like heart failure or a stroke. Arrhythmia are the leading cause of sudden cardiac death, with 400,000…

Case Study on Sam the Runner Presented by: Jaclyn Kerby Meagan Greathouse Krista Young Erin Lofton Suzauna Adams Glossary Arrhythmia: occurs when the heart no longer beats in a pattern considered regular or normal. Cardiac arrest: the sudden loss of heart function, breathing and consciousness caused by abnormal or irregular heart rhythms (ex: ventricular fibrillation) Cardiomyopathy: a disease of the heart muscle (myocardium), may be acquired or hereditary…

Lawrence, the president of Downing Digital Healthcare Partners said, “Customers just aren’t aware of the prevalence of sudden cardiac arrest.” Each year in the United States over 424,000 victims are being affected all ages, in Hawaii, Native Hawaiians are 1.7 times (over 70%) more likely to die from heart disease than other race. To prevent this from happening to all citizens, CFL (Certification for Life) wants to increase funding for more access to an AED. Our goal as the CFL is to train…

In 1985, an innocent man was sent to prison for a sentence of 36 years. This man’s name was Steven Avery. Steven was a resident on Manitowoc County, Wisconsin. A county where the police, the people you shouldn’t be afraid of, didn’t quite accept Avery because of an incident with his cousin, who was also the wife of the deputy, some time back, against Sandy Morris. The incident involved an empty fire arm weapon, which he pointed at Morris, when asked why he did it, his didn’t like the rumors…

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On Thursday 05/18/17 at 0137 hours I was dispatched to a physical domestic at 13011 SE 309th PL in the City of Auburn, King Co, WA. Dispatch advised the reporting person, Marie Hamilton, stated Fred Tronsaune, an exchange student living in her residence, came home intoxicated and assaulted a roommate, Thanakrit Inkhaw, another exchange student. Hamilton stated Tronsaune had left the residence and stated he was going to 7/11 to buy cigarettes. Hamilton also mentioned Tronsaune said he was going…

on one dimension (Peak et al, 2010). A good example is if a Sergeant believes in a high number of arrests. Officers who make very few arrests will make low scores in all categories because of it. A regency problem is similar and occurs when a recent event affects an officer’s entire rating (Peak et al, 2010). For example, an officer arrests a serial bank robber and it is his only high risk arrest of the year, but receives high marks on everything because of it. Rater bias is simply when a…

Sudden cardiac deaths in young athletes still remain unsolved, the effect of high intense training puts the heart under immense stress. In both the United States and Europe it has been reported these deaths are usually due to undetected cardiovascular disease and seem to be increasing (Maron et al. 2007) Many prevention methods have been created to reduce the risk of cardiac deaths in young athletes, such as Pre-participation screening like, the electrocardiography (ECG) screening programme in…