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    Premature Ventricular Contraction A premature ventricular contraction is an irregularity in the normal heart rhythm. These contractions are extra heartbeats that occur too early in the normal sequence. In most cases, these contractions are harmless and do not require treatment. CAUSES Premature ventricular contractions may occur without a known cause. In healthy people, the extra contractions may be caused by: • Smoking. • Drinking alcohol. • Caffeine. • Certain medicines. • Some illegal drugs. • Stress. Changes in chemicals in the blood (electrolytes) can also sometimes cause premature ventricular contractions. They can also occur in people with heart diseases that cause a decrease in blood flow to the heart. SIGNS AND…

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    Premature Ventricular Contractions (Pvcs) Overview- Premature ventricular contractions (PVCs) are abnormal, extra heart-rates that initiate in ventricles, one of your heart's two lower pumping chambers. These additional pulsates disturb your normal heart musicality, in some cases making you feel a flip-flop or skipped beat in your chest. Premature ventricular contractions are extremely normal, mainly it occurs in most of the people at some time. If you are infected by ventricular constrictions,…

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    interpreting requires visual memory but I don’t retain information well visually. I retain best through auditory and semantic codes. I had to semantically create a new set of acronyms for elaborate rehearsal. Aberrant beats are when a person will have a random beat between two complexes that are caused from a premature atrial complex. I remember this as “aberrant, randomly present”. There are three hearts blocks that you must differentiate through their similarities. A first-degree heart block,…

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    disturbances in the brain. Symptoms of this disorder may include loss of consciousness, convulsions, spasms, and sensory confusion. Attacks are frequently preceded by strange behavior and feelings of uneasiness or discomfort. Similarly, meningitis can develop; an infection that causes inflammation of the membranes that surround the brain. Symptoms may include a general feeling of ill health, nausea, abdominal pain, along with stiffness in the back and neck. Others conditions involved with…

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    relationship, even in bed. Bianca and Tanner alike as many couples, used sex as a coping mechanism to deal with the everyday pressures of life. Generally, people underestimate the role of sex plays in their relationship. A good sex life can be a relationship builder and the lack of it can make it harder to coexist with a partner. To further explain, that is not saying that the physical part of dating should be the base of the relationship, but when appropriate, it is a positive component of a…

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    The Need of Being One’s Own Puppeteer In a world that seems like it’s rapidly expanding, there are some, like myself, that are still focused on the earth’s tiny spaces. What I’m describing is an anxiety related to the thoughts and visual triggers surrounding tight and suffocating places. People who constantly face these apprehensions suffer from claustrophobia or the fear of enclosed spaces. Ranging from elevators to being buried alive in coffins, people like myself have the constant fear of…

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    Lawrence, the president of Downing Digital Healthcare Partners said, “Customers just aren’t aware of the prevalence of sudden cardiac arrest.” Each year in the United States over 424,000 victims are being affected all ages, in Hawaii, Native Hawaiians are 1.7 times (over 70%) more likely to die from heart disease than other race. To prevent this from happening to all citizens, CFL (Certification for Life) wants to increase funding for more access to an AED. Our goal as the CFL is to train…

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    The process of burial in Poe 's "The Premature Burial" is quick and short-lived scene whereas the obsession with the thought is all over the story. In “The Fall of House of Usher", the scene is just mentioned at the tongue of Usher. And the whole event of the story comes as a warning and dangerous result of this burial. But in “The Cask of Amontillado,” Poe makes this scene of burial exceedingly long and draws out the elements of fear. It is clear that slow death is worse than quick death.…

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    Poe’s speciality is to leave loose ends and dozens of interpretations, all of them intertwined in the topic of the double. Therefore, the tale is at first a nest of doubles. The madman and the old man are at the centre of this horrible tale in which one is murdered by the other, and the most important aspect of their duality might be there, on the line of the madman’s retelling of the events, since one of the main aspects of Poe’s fiction is the one of the narrator’s unreliability. Should we…

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    Edgar Allen Poe writes “Cask of Amontillado”, and in this short story, Poe reveals the dark side of humiliation, revenge. The theme that Poe went with was that revenge can consume a man and turn him mad. In this story, Montresor has a method to his madness at getting back at Fortunato, he plans to kill him and how he plans this is shown through his thoughts, conversations and finally his actions. Montresor’s thoughts of revenge start off the story like this “When he (Fortunato) ventured upon…

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