Congenital heart disease

just in the hospital, IV site are at a high risk because it is a line into a blood vessel. If the air embolism is not resolved it can make its way to your heart and cause it to stop. If an air embolism is in an artery it is extremely severe, because it can cut off blood flow to organs like the brain. When this happens it can cause a stroke or a heart attack it just depends on which part of the body it is located. An air embolism can also be cause if there has been damage to the lungs. If you are…

TITLE: Afterload reduction and beneficial in the management of heart failure Jose R Tapanes International Institute for Health Care Professionals Abstract Afterload is the pressure in the wall of the left ventricle during ejection. In other words, it is the end load against which the heart contracts to eject blood. Afterload is divided into components: one factor is the aortic pressure the left ventricular muscle must overcome to eject blood. There is an inverse relationship between afterload…

A speculum is inserted into the vagina to clear an opening so that the cervical ostium can be localized and cleansed. A sterile saline flushed catheter is advanced through the cervical ostium into the cervical canal, where its balloon tip is inflated to hold the catheter in place. The vaginal probe can now be inserted while a sterile saline filled syringe is attached to the catheter. The saline is pushed through the syringe and through the catheter while the transducer moves from left to right…

human’s after they decease. There could be several possible reasons for disagreements such as the circumstances in which the person dies, deeming the organs unusable or the possible serious side effects following the transplant, such as infection or disease, for both the donor and the receiver. The most effective change concerning this topic would be to pass a law which presumes that everyone wants to donate their organs unless it is specifically stated otherwise on their legal documents because…

Beep, beep! I am awoken by the too common sound of the heart rate monitor. Lily seems to have been awake for awhile, she says “Good Morning,’’ in her usual cheerful voice and the nurse joins us for Lily’s morning check everything seems to be fine or so I think. Tomorrow’s her first day of chemotherapy, I’m worried, I don’t know why I am worried, everyone says it will help her and everything will be fine in the outcome, but I am not sure. Lily and I do almost everything together, and we have…

traumatic heart disease is based on mechanism of injury (i.e., penetrating, nonpenetrating [blunt], iatrogenic, metabolic, and other) (Table ) . PENETRATING CARDIAC TRAUMA Penetrating trauma is the most common cause of significant cardiac injury seen in the hospital setting, with the predominant injury being from guns and knives. Penetrating cardiac trauma is secondary to stab wounds in 35 to 96 percent of patients…

to spot him but then when i turn around I hear a gunshot…” “Standing there holding his stomach was Sam, and just like me, we were looking for each other but the difference is, he got shot for it. After hearing that gunshot and seeing who it was my heart stopped, time froze and then rewinded. Everything started flashing back to when we first met, we were 5 and we were at the park playing like no other kid would be when they are 5 but me and him were different. We fought over one swing when 10…

Purpose: Our previous computer models suggested that intraluminal thrombus (ILT) within an abdominal aortic aneurysm (AAA) attenuates oxygen diffusion to the AAA wall, possibly causing localized hypoxia and contributing to wall weakening. The purpose of this work was to investigate this possibility. Methods: In one arm of this study, patients with AAA were placed in one of two groups: (1) those with an ILT of 4- mm or greater thickness on the anterior surface or (2) those with little (< 4 mm)…

Cardiovascular health refers to the health of the heart and the blood vessels. It is important to have proper blood supply to various organs in the body to support good health. The heart is a muscle that actually pumps blood throughout the body. Other organs in the body definitely become affected if there is something wrong with the heart (“Cardiovascular disease,” 2012). Obviously, if the heart muscle fails to function completely, then you die. This is because there will be no more blood flow…

Venous return is the flow of blood back to the heart. This process is achieved by five mechanisms. The Pressure Gradient, now this mechanisms work via the heart generating pressure even though the pressure is weaker in the veins than in the arteries it is still the most important force in the venous flow. Gravity, but only when you are sitting or standing anywhere above the heart simple gravity is at work in returning blood back to the heart, not to say that very thing isn’t still working…