Cardiac catheterization

Healthcare has always fascinated me ever since I have volunteered at my local hospital in Rapid City. When I was volunteering in the summer of 2014 and recently on the 13th of January this year (2016), I had the opportunity to see the work environment of the medical imaging / radiology department. It was neat being with the doctors, nurses, and technologists watching them give x-rays, do an ultrasound, CT and MRI scans, nuclear medicine, and even a few procedures in Specials. In the radiology…

support on paying the bill will create conflict. In addition, Bashri may benefit financially from her mother’s die. There are no problems of allocation of scarce health resources that might affect clinical decisions. Coronary bypass surgery or cardiac catheterization is very common surgery for heart attack. The major issue will be Turkish culture and norms that the sons able to make all decision on behalf of Jamilah. Jamilah may obey her son's…

Assessment of muscle tone and strength. Mr. X a 52year old person with complaints of joints pains and joints instability, he has a history of frequent falls and injuries, and he has been advised for a strength training programme. Enumerate the various assessment methods used to measure the muscle tone and muscle strength of Mr X Topic: assessment of muscle tone and muscle strength of Mr X. The important component of fitness is muscle tone and muscle strength. It is the ability of an…

Congestive Heart Failure Congestive heart failure is a progressive condition in which fluid builds up around the heart and causes pumping of the heart to become more and more difficult. Heart failure (CHF) occurs when the ventricles of your heart can’t pump blood sufficiently, causing fluid to build up not only around your heart but lungs, abdomen, and liver as well. There are multiple different types of CHF, the most common being left-sided which is when the left ventricle is weakened. Along…

performed on the patient, and it showed the classic apical ballooning present with takotsubo cardiomyopathy. Her right ventricle was dysfunctional and dilated mildly. The TEE presented with moderate tricuspid regurgitation, and a low cardiac output. Cardiac catheterization was also performed and no coronary disease was found. The patient was treated with milrinone, and after two days in the ICU the patient was mostly recovered with an ejection fraction of 60%, and was discharged 4 days later…

Advanced Practice Nurse Leader Interview Project Health care restructuring in many countries has led to substantial increases in the different types and number of APN roles, and the demand is increasing rapidly. According to the American Association of Nurse Practitioners (AANP), Nurse Practitioners (NPs) have become the chosen health care provider of choice for millions of Americans, these including specialty populations (Quallich, 2015). According to the national organization of Nurse…

tissues. Congenital Heart Disease has many therapeutic treatments available but not all people with congenital heart defects require treatment. Some may only need to be observed and visit their cardiologist. In other cases, surgery or a cardiac catheterization may be needed to reduce the effects of and/or repair the defect. Even when a defect is treated as a child, further conditions may develop that would…

electrocardiogram (tracing of the heart beat), a stress test (testing may produce symptoms through monitored exercising), an echocardiograph (a moving picture of the heart), blood testing (checking fats, sugar, and proteins in the blood), and cardiac catheterization may be ordered to assist in diagnosis (National Heart, Lung, and Blood Institute [NIH], 2014b). What are the risk factors for heart disease in women? _High blood pressure _High cholesterol _Diabetes _Smoking _Being overweight…

Single Ventricle Defects WHAT ARE SINGLE VENTRICLE DEFECTS? Single ventricle defects are heart problems that you were born with (congenital heart defects). Normally the heart has two pumping chambers. These are the right and left ventricles. The right ventricle pumps blood to the lungs to get oxygen. After blood returns from the lungs, the left ventricle pumps it out to the body. Single ventricle defects come in many forms. They can involve one or more valves in your heart and a ventricle…

In a study by Arbab-Zadeh et al. (2004), they had twelve sedentary healthy seniors and twelve Master athletes that previously had pulmonary artery catheterization; they measured the participants pulomary capillary wedge pressures and left ventricular end-diastolic volumes through echocardiography at baseline, during decreased cardiac filling, and after a saline infusion. Based on these measurements, they found that Masters athletes had greater stroke volumes than the sedentary individuals…