Hypertension

lifestyle can have a very negative impact on your health. In fact, this serious situation is often described as “sitting disease” and is commonly associated with an increased risk of suffering:… Heart disease Diabetes Cancer Obesity Strokes Hypertension Increasing your activity levels will massively reduce your risk of suffering diseases associated with…

My day started off with meeting the two individuals I would be spending most of my day with which was Kat and Will who were both paramedics. Kat took me to the ambulance and showed me the things we would need in each case that we would go to and no matter what the case was the two things they would need is the medicine bag and the stretcher. Then we went through the ambulance and she showed me where most of the equipment was and the medications. As she was showing them to me she was checking…

talk with your doctor if it is right for you. Bimatoprost 3 ml is a generic drug that belongs to the class of drugs called prostaglandin analogs. Bimatoprost is used for treating certain types of glaucoma that add pressure in the eyes and ocular hypertension that usually occurs in people as they grow older. Glaucoma is not curable, but Bimatoprost prevents further damage to the eye from vision impairment. Bimatoprost eye drops reduce the pressure in the eye by increasing the amount of fluid…

First off heart disease is a cardiovascular disease that occurs in the human heart. There are numerous types of heart diseases. These diseases range from coronary artery disease, which is the damage or disease of the heart's major blood vessels. High blood pressure, is a condition in which the force of blood against the artery wall is too high. Cardiac arrest, is when a patient has a sudden or unexpected loss of heart function, breathing, and consciousness. Congestive heart failure, is the…

Typically 25 mg to 60 mg of the compound have to be given in 3-4 divided doses in a day. Ingestion of this medicine in an empty stomach is recommended by some physicians for best results. The medicine is not recommended for use in patients of hypertension, respiratory or pulmonary diseases and for those suffering from trouble of the prostate gland. Keep these medicines out of reach of children at all times. Pregnant women and convalescing patients have to consult physicians if they have to use…

were originally planning to. With obesity, children have a hard time breathing and sleeping, which in other words is sleep apnea. To be more specific, sleep apnea causes people to stop breathing for brief periods, it interrupts their sleep throughout the night and causes sleepiness during the day. It also causes heavy snoring. For example, you remember the young lady Samantha that I mentioned earlier, at 15 she was already obese. She was a young lady who was diagnosed with high blood pressure…

fatty deposits (atherosclerosis), therefore blood flow is reduced. Eisen et al state that a myocardial infarction is one major cause of heart failure in patients with coronary artery disease (10). When you have a high blood pressure this is called hypertension, a high blood pressure means that the heart is working harder to circulate the blood, overtime the heart muscles becomes stiff or too weak to efficiently pump the blood. The primary aetiology of heart disease is difficult to determine…

Chronic diseases continue to become more prevalent in society, the problems associated with each chronic disease continue to change and advance. Continuous changes in disease processes complicates the treatment and disease management because every patient has a different care plan. This impacts the health profession because these complicated cases require more research and education that doctors and nurses may not have experience with before. The major issue with the rise of chronic diseases is…

To reduce further renal dysfunction in patient BB, the physician should implement the following recommendations of evidence-based guidelines. Intravenous albumin (1.5 g/kg within 6 hours of spontaneous bacterial peritonitis (SBP) diagnosis and 1 g/kg on day 3) should be given along with intravenous antibiotics. Multiple studies have shown IV albumin effective in decreasing the incidence of renal dysfunction from 33% to 10% and mortality from 29% to 10% and is especially beneficial for patients…

Hello everyone, In this thread, I would like to discuss about stroke and Tizanidine, a pharmacological agent is to manage spasticity. Stroke transitioned from being the third to the fourth leading cause of death in the United States (Goodman & Fuller, 2015). Although the decline in mortality, it remains as the leading cause of long term disability (CDC, n.d.). Stroke is a focal vascular-induced injury of the brain. Disruption of blood supply may be caused either by an obstruction (called an…