Nitroglycerin

Heart disease is a broad term used to describe any cardiovascular disease or condition that affects the cardiovascular system. According to the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC), 47% of all Americans have at least one of the risk factors for heart disease and many don 't know it. Understanding heart disease is crucial to its prevention, however, so it 's important for you to know the causes and symptoms of heart disease. You should strive to prevent heart disease if you can and…

cheerfully sharing things most actresses would keep to themselves.” (Hiscock, John). Another similar trait is her ability to be curious, which can be stretched to fall under the same umbrellas as childlike. As a kid she held the nickname “nitro” as in nitroglycerin, which is an explosive yellow liquid that is commonly made into dynamite. Her mother commented that Jennifer had always had a light in her that seemed to inspire others. As for Miranda’s social life she has just recently met…

Heart Disease in Women and their Unique Symptoms of a Heart Attack Introduction: Heart attacks are a very serious condition of the human body that require immediate attention. Heart attacks are known in the medical community as myocardial infarctions: myo- means muscle, cardio- means heart, -al means pertaining to; infarct means death of tissue (med term book). The parts come together as: tissue death pertaining to heart muscle (med term book). Each year, around one and half million cases of…

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…

The substances found on the victims of the crash can be easily identified through simple math. You start by taking the percent values of each element found in the substance and changing it to grams, where one percent equals one gram, so that each element is out of one hundred grams. After finding the grams, you find out the moles of each element by multiplying the gram amounts by the conversion factor, which is 1 mol over the molar mass of the element you are dealing with, 12.01 grams for carbon…

On Tuesday, October 4th, I spent the day at The Miriam Hospital cardiac catheterization laboratory. Cardiac catheterization is an invasive On Tuesday, October 4th, I spent the day at The Miriam Hospital cardiac catheterization laboratory. Cardiac catheterization is an invasive diagnostic procedure that uses imaging equipment to identify if a patient has disease of the heart muscles, valves or coronary arteries (Smeltzer, 2011). Upon arriving at 0720 the nurse manager greeted me and the other…

Clinical Practice Question Will educating SMH ED nurses about signs and symptoms of HF increase their confidence and skill in identifying HF patients? Critical Appraisal Components: Evidence-Based Factors The emergency department (ED) is a unique environment that serves as a gatekeeper for patients with a variety of illnesses and is the source of a majority of admission. With so much scrutiny on patient care benchmarks and admission and readmission rates, the ED is an area of special interest…

extruded powder). The most basic types of smokeless powders are single and double base. The difference between the two is that the single base powder is made from nitrocellulose and the double base is made from a combination of nitrocellulose and nitroglycerin. ‘is there…

Nitroglycerin acts directly on vascular smooth muscle to promote vasodilation. Nitroglycerin produces both arterial and venous dilation, which leads increase hemodynamic function, increase CO, and increased tissue perfusion. Venous dilation leads lead to a reduction in return blood flow to the heart…

This presentation will summarize what Coronary Artery Disease (CAD) is, so the patient and family will have a better understanding of the disease. Coronary Artery Disease is thought to “begin in early childhood and is evident in the teenage years” (http://www.heart.org/). The plaque keeps building up each year and stays with a person for life. As a person ages the risks of coronary artery disease becomes higher with the type of lifestyle a person chooses. “The leading causes of CAD are “high…