Cardiac pacemaker

The GERD-HRQL is a nine-item, Likert-type questionnaire that measures the severity of heartburn, heartburn lying down, heartburn standing up, heartburn after meals, change of diet, nocturnal heartburn, dysphagia, odynophagia, and effects of medications (Table I). The GERD- HRQL score is derived from simply adding the scores from each of the nine items. The best possible score is zero (i.e, asymptomatic in each item) and the worst possible score is 45 (incapacitated in each item).1 3.0…

The healthcare industry’s perennial reliance on pharmaceuticals, from giants like Roche or Pfizer, while bolstering the quality of life for well-developed nations, often overshadows upcoming advances or developments in therapeutic treatment. A rather niche approach, bioelectronic medicine, is particularly attractive to the field of biomedical engineering, relying less on biochemistry than an integration of device and neurology. Georgina Casey, nursing lecturer at Auckland University of…

Aboriginal and Torres strait islander and those people who live in remote areas. They have a higher rate of Hospitalisation and died from CVD this is because it is harder for them to find the care that they need. The most common types of this disease are cardiac arrest, stroke, high blood pressure, Arrhythmia and congestive heart failure these are just a few types of the disease but there are a lot more. This Disease…

This month I listened to an episode of the radio show This American Life titles “Something Only I Can See.” It focuses on how often times one will feel they are the only ones who can see something. As a teenager I occasionally will come across this problem. Often times, I will have a friend that becomes involved with a new romantic partner. I may immediately recognize this new person to be a degenerate with, at best, questionable motivation, but my friend may be blind to this. Getting my friend…

newborn was intubated duo to respiratory distress and extubated after about 48 hours and got stable with heart rate of 65 beats / minute. Biochemical tests and atrial blood gas (ABG) evaluation were in normal range. Echocardiography did not reveal any Cardiac structural abnormalities such as congenitally corrected transposition of the great arteries (CCTGA), Ebstein anomaly, left isomerism with the heart defect and left ventricular non-compact (LVNC). Left ventricular size and systolic function…

hope to handle many situations. It is still hard to accept the fact that the person is no longer with us. When I started working in acute care hospital, one of my patient was admitted for heart problems who needed pacemaker. The physician had planned to transfer the patient in cardiac unit after two days because they had no bed available. In the beginning of the shift, I went to medicate the patient in her room, she stated that she is feeling fatigue and dizzy, and suddenly she became…

and display their effects of the stimuli. The ECG will record and assess the changes they have on the heart contraction, the following drugs will be explored- acetylcholine, epinephrine, pilocarpine and atropine. For example, acetylcholine reduces cardiac activity, this means that the contractions are decrease together in force. Essentially, these drugs are either sympathomimetic or para-sympathomimetic drugs. Sympathomimetic drugs mimic the sympathetic nerve stimulation, which in turn increases…

6. The Controversies and Contraindications Therapeutic ultrasound has been used for various healing such as to treat injuries like muscle strains or runner's knee for a long time. However, the controversy on it still continues. There is limited evidence to support or refute its effectiveness and safety. Therapeutic ultrasound is not difficult to test, and present studies are not enough to persuade people that it works well. A recent study showed that it is unambiguously negative to us (Gam &…

inside the heart may become too compact and/or leak due to abnormal blood flow. This defect puts pressure on the heart which can cause chest pain or fatigue. Based on the defect the heart can heal on its own over time or treatment such as medication, pacemakers, or surgery can resolve the problem. Another defect of CHD is cyanosis, where the main symptom is discoloration around the mouth and fingertips caused by deoxygenated red blood cells. In CHD, other symptoms such as systolic murmur, loud…

Neonatal lupus erythematosus is an uncommon autoimmune disease which associated with the transplacental passage of maternal autoantibodies which affect atrioventricular node and hiss bundles of fetus heart and can cause fibrosis and calcification of cardiac structure(3). Fetal exposure to these maternal autoantibodies can also because myocarditis creates a late onset cardiomyopathy (8). Our patient suffered from isolated CCHB without any evidence of structural damage or myocarditis. Almost CCHB…