Ventricular tachycardia

growth and development in children marked by poor weight gain, failure to thrive and frequent hospitalizations while growing up. In addition, these children also develop frequent episodes of shortness of breath, rapid heart rate (also known as tachycardia) and attacks of fatigue associated with decreased exercise…

are included in this category. To detect early heart failure or heart failure in compensated stages, ventricular filling pressures are evaluated against stroke volume. The ICU nurse may notice elevated cardiac filling pressures. Stroke volume may not be affected in the early stages. As the heart failure progresses, stroke volume is reduced, and tachycardia sets in. However, because of the tachycardia, cardiac output will remain…

glomerular filtrate, inhibiting reabsorption of water and electrolytes (Vallerand, Sanoski, & Deglin, 2015). Osmotic diuretics dehydrate brain tissue and reduce cerebral edema (Hinkle & Cheever, 2014). o Side effects: pulmonary edema, heart failure, tachycardia, nausea, vomiting, confusion, headache, blurred vision (Vallerand, Sanoski, & Deglin, 2015). • Inotropic agents (dobutamine or…

Coarctation of the Aorta Coarctation of the aorta is a congenital defect that can occur in infants. A congenital defect is present at birth and may or may not be discovered before delivery. Once discovered, management of the condition and treatment must begin immediately. Etiology Coarctation of the aorta presents as a narrowing of the aorta near the heart. Specifically, near where the ductus arteriosus joins the heart. Because this narrowing occurs distal to the vessels that supply blood…

Embolic ischemic strokes are caused by an embolus occluding a blood vessel. Finally, hypoxic ischemic strokes are due to hypoxemia or cerebral hypoperfusion. Other causes of ischemic stroke include atrial fibrillation, sickle cell disease and ventricular tachycardia. The pathophysiology of an ischemic stroke first involves a decrease in oxygen, glucose and other nutrients due to ischemia. Due to decreased oxygen, the normal process of oxidative phosphorylation does not occur, and thus ATP is not…

“Fluanxol”  Introduction : • History and background : - Fluanxol is a thioxanthene derivative which contains flupentixol as active substances. It belongs to group of medicines known as antidepressants drugs which act on nerve pathway in specific areas of the brain and help in correcting some chemical imbalances that cause the symptoms of this illness. - Its International Non-proprietary Name (INN) is flupentixol , but its British Approved Name (BAN) is flupenthixol and it is known in the market…

Introduction / 5p- 1200w The most frequent cause of sudden cardiac death is hypertrophic cardiomyopathy (HCM), mainly in young people. It is characterized by thickening in the left ventricle (LV) wall not related to load condition such as aortic stenosis or systemic hypertension (Bing, Knott et al. 2000). It is estimated that approximately one in 500-1000 population. HCM is a complex genetic inherited cardiovascular disease caused by dominate mutation in coding of cardiac sarcomere proteins gene…

free of hypertension and other causes of increased afterload (Alberto, Radaelli, Centola 2003). Such structural changes include increased vascular stiffness (Steppan et al., 2011) and a mild increase in heart weight, reflecting some degree of left ventricular hypertrophy (Alberto, Radaelli, Centola 2003). This can lead to several diseases of the cardiovascular system including angina pectoris, heart failure and myocardial infarction. The electrical conduction system of the heart can…

which can enhance cardiac output while at the same time reducing ventricular wall stress and oxygen demand. Nitrogylycrin should be intitailly infuses at a rate 5mcg/min and then tritrated until and adequate response has been achieved (i.e. titrated every 5 minutes in 10-20 mcg/min increments with a max infusion rate of 400 mcg/min). During infusion, the HR (watch for tachycardia r/t hypotension) and BP (especially reflex tachycardia r/t hypotension-often pretreated with beta blocking agent)…

treat an issue called arrhythmias. Arrhythmias are problems with the beat of your heartrate. There are 4 different types of arrhythmias, premature which is when you get extra beats (the most common type), Supraventricular tachycardia is when your heart beats too fast, ventricular rhythm issues can halt the ventricle from pumping blood into your body (this could result in cardiac arrest), and Bradycardia is when your heart beats too slow meaning not enough blood gets to your brains sometimes…