Ventricular septal defect

Nature Versus Nurture One of the most common asked questions in the realm of psychology is the question of nature versus nurture for the developmental stage(s) of adolescents. There are many debates on whether nature or nurture is more important in the life an adolescent. Of course these questions are quite necessary, but they are also highly arguable. There are people who believe that nature is better than nurture and vice versa, but there are also people who believe both nature and nurture…

“poor growth while the baby is in the womb and after birth, decreased muscle tone and poor coordination, delayed development and problems in three or more major areas: thinking, speech, movement, or social skills, heart defects such as ventricular septal defect or atrial septal defect, and problems with the face, including narrow and small eyes with large epicanthal folds, small head, small upper jaw,…

heart murmurs are anemia, high blood pressure, overactive thyroid, pregnancy, and fever are forerunners to producing a number of heart defects. One must understand the location of the point of origin, type and severity, and the different methods of assessing turbulent blood flow to understand the physiology…

Prenatal development occurs when the single celled zygote develops into a full-term infant. This happens in a sequence of stages, which are primarily known as germinal, embryotic and the fetal stage. Each of the stages of prenatal development is very important to the development of a healthy happy baby. There are some agents that can potentially harm or disturb this crucial time for an infant, these agents are known as teratogens. Environmental factors such as mercury, air pollution and…

who remain ignorant of the fact that we were all created equal. Like Malcolm X i was also trapped behind some sort of bars not physical but emotional. At the age of three my mother was diagnosed with stage two of Adenocarcinoma cancer, and ventricular septal defect. At first i didn 't understand because i was a mere child but later on when i started school i began to realize that not only was my mother running low on time but also i was slowly becoming lost and confused of what was going on…

worldwide. Advances in the percutaneous management of coronary artery disease as well as in cardiac surgical techniques have led to improved outcomes with consequent longer life expectancy for patients. Greater numbers of patients with depressed left ventricular function, multiple comorbidities, failed interventional procedures, and prior revascularization operations are now referred for cardiac surgery. As a result, preoperative risk assessment is even more critical to ensure the safe…

From a global perspective, cardiovascular disease is a significant cause of morbidity and mortality in most populations 1. In the UK, CVD produces tremendous strain on the NHS and has compelling consequences upon patients, resources and the economic status of health services. Whilst Cancer has recently overtaken cardiovascular disease in leading causes of death in the UK, CVD has not been trailing in terms of mortality, with 28% of deaths in men and 26% in women according to the British Heart…

The NCLEX exam is something that I am truly looking forward to taking. It is scary to think about how close I am to graduation and the next big step in my career is to pass my board exam. Some of my strengths when it comes to test taking over two years of practicing NCLEX style questions are: being able to critically think, reading the question and being able to identify what is being asked. Some of my weaknesses when it comes to test taking are time management. Although, I have tried my best to…

unstable patients how have tolerated this procedure but with high risk patients, the nurse has be cautious of assessing and monitoring these patients. The potential contraindications include uncontrolled hypertension, left sided heart failure, severe ventricular irritability, anemia, hypokalemia, digitalis toxicity, an allergy to contrast dye, renal failure, and a bleeding disordering. It is also contraindication if a patient is currently taking an anticoagulant because of the risk of bleeding…

Introduction Fontan and Baudet detailed in their article the first Fontan procedure in the early seventies [1]. Since then, the Fontan procedure has been applied for palliation of single ventricle (SV) patients. Multiple modifications of the original procedure were introduced to improve morbidity and mortality. Short and long term outcomes of the Fontan procedure were studied heavily by numerous investigators [2, 3]. Wellbeing of SV patients, following Fontan palliation, going into adolescent…