Cardiac pacemaker

Dr. Sharma typically uses minimally invasive procedures to diagnose his patients. These procedures include cardiac catheterization, Transesophageal echocardiogram, stress echocardiogram and the use of a Holter monitor. On the other days that I shadowed him I would observe him in the patient rooms as he attended to patients. While doing rounds at the office with…

Cardiac and respiratory conditions can be very hard on the child and the families of the child. There are many different cardiac and respiratory conditions that can affect a child, as well as their families. The great thing is that many of these conditions we are able to treat. The cardiac condition that I decided to research is the Tetralogy of Fallot and the respiratory condition is Respiratory Distress Syndrome. Tertralogy of Fallot is a birth defect and affects normal blood flow. During…

family health history shows the brother has a heart disease. He was never a smoker. He drinks alcohol 4-6 beers on weekends. Admitted medical diagnosis indicates cardiac arrhythmia and pneumonia. When we did the beginning shift assessment, the patient was alert and oriented, ambulating, afebrile, he is NPO, and he had temporary pacemaker placed on. I was able to identify abnormal lung sound…

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…

Animal testing is a reoccurring issue that circles society without any form of hesitation as to the consequences that underlay the blinding benefits. Animal experimenting was established during the 19th century. Many products such as medicine, hair care products and cosmetics are presented to the human population as safe to use because of animal testing. Though animal testing may be a controversial issue, many people feel animal testing is for the best. Hence, animal testing should be quickly…

Introduction Cardiomyopathy is the disease of the heart in which the muscles of the heart are affected to an extent that they become stiff or of an irregular size, the effect it has on the heart classifies the type of disorder it is. It can take up many forms, the most common of these are hypertrophic cardiomyopathy, dilated cardiomyopathy, restrictive cardiomyopathy and Arrhythmogenic right ventricular dysplasia. As cardiomyopathy begins to become more severe, the overall health of the heart…

The Importance of Searching for Knowledge in the Universe as Cosmically Insignificant Beings Hundreds or thousands of years ago humans did not know the vastness of our universe and its technological benefits; people thought the earth was flat and did not possess any idea of what lies past the sky. Space inquiry and eventually exploration technologically advance our world over millenniums. Also, the knowledge of existing on a nanoscale planet brought nations and cultures together to…

the body known as the baroreflex (Lehrer & Gevirtz, 2014, p. 1). They go on to find that the rate at which a participant breathes has a direct correlation with the sinoatrial (SA) node of the heart. The SA node can be thought of as the electrical pacemaker of the heart and is positively affected at around 5.5 breaths per minute, or about an 11 second inhalation and exhalation sequence (Lehrer & Gevirtz, 2014, pp.…

When it comes to the United States, space exploration has always been a strange and peculiar subject. It seems everybody has an opinion on whether or not the billions of dollars the government is spending on funding towards NASA has been beneficial towards the wellbeing of the country. President-elect, Donald Trump, just recently issued a statement saying that NASA will shift its focus towards space exploration and less towards climate change, stating that it is just a “political hoax”. Trump…

Some organizations still use outdated machines because they cannot afford to upgrade. It is not in their budget, so Microsoft systems that run 2003??? May still be infected with the Conficker virus. Conficker affected Windows 2000 Service Pack (SP) 4, Windows XP SP2 and SP3, Windows Server 2003 SP1 and SP2, Vista Gold SP1, Windows Server 2008 and Windows 7 systems. It then patched the “hole” at Port 445 to inhibit other malware from exploiting the system’s vulnerability (Krepinevich, 2012).…