Cardiac dysrhythmia

Specific Purpose: To demonstrate and inform the audience how to properly conduct CPR on an infant. Thesis: I would like to make this occasion a subject of much interest in saving a life, it’s about learning to conduct CPR on an infant correctly. Introduction: Conducting CPR is an important technique. Performing simple procedures and following some specific guidelines, you may save lives if a basic treatment is administered until professional medical help arrives. Attention grabber – As a…

Atrial Fibrillation, Heartbeat, afib, Causes, Treatments, flutter Page Description: Atrial fibrillation or flutter is a condition characterized by irregularity in heartbeat. Causes of afib are not clear but considered to be associated with various cardiac conditions. Treatments are available that can help to regulate the abnormality in the heartbeat. Text: { Atrial Fibrillation Atrial fibrillation is characterized by irregular heartbeat. Though atrial fibrillation is not life threatening but…

that everyone should learn. According to the American Heart Association, 70% of Americans don’t know what to do if someone is experiencing a cardiac emergency. What is alarming about this is that almost 90% of cardiac arrest occur at home. So, knowing how to perform CPR can save a life of someone you love someday. How to Perform CPR About 400,000 cardiac arrests happen outside of a hospital each year in the U.S. Alone, hands- only CPR can help to double or triple and adults chance of survival…

estimated that there is one cardiac arrest every twelve minutes equaling approximately 40 000 cardiac arrests every year (Heart and Stroke Foundation, 2017). According to the American Heart Association (2017), the incidence of in-hospital cardiac arrest in 2016 was 209 000 with a survival rate of only 24.8% after resuscitation. Resuscitation efforts can include chest compressions, intubation, artificial airway insertion, external or internal electrical shock delivery, cardiac massage, and drug…

Kolcaba's Comfort Theory: Exemplar, Concepts & Application to Practice After analyzing several theoretical nursing concepts, it becomes apparent that Katharine Kolcaba's Comfort Theory and its application in a multitude of practice settings resonates fully with my personal practice. First developed in the 1990s, Kolcaba's comfort theory is a middle-range theory for health practice, education, and research. Kolcaba "created a conceptual framework to show broadly how her comfort theory fit into…

CPR stands for cardiopulmonary resuscitation and is a life-saving medical procedure that is performed on someone who is in cardiac arrest. It assists by helping pump blood around the victim’s body while their heart is unable to. A cardiac arrest is caused by an electrical problem in a person’s heart which causes the heart to stop pumping blood to the body and the brain. Cardiac arrest causes a person to fall unconscious and stop breathing; without CPR the person will die within minutes. CPR…

Introduction Patient outcomes should be the ultimate goal of any health care interaction. Unfortunately, reality and outside forces make perfect patient outcomes hard to achieve. Safe staffing practices are one such outside force that alter patient outcomes. The current nursing shortage complicates staffing patterns as higher levels of patients are requiring health care. This research article does a good job at establishing reasonable, and attainable staffing pattern guidelines. Nursing is one…

Occurring mostly in males, Duchenne Muscular Dystrophy is an X-linked disorder that includes progressive muscle weakening caused by an insufficient gene for the production of a protein in the muscles called dystrophin. (Lucas-Heron, 1995) It affects about one in 3600-6000 live male births, making it the most common form of muscular dystrophy. Symptoms are most often noticeable by the time patients reach the age of three to five. The affected males will lose their ability to walk by eight to…

AIM: Sarcopenia has been defined as an involuntary loss of skeletal muscle mass and strength and/or function. The presence of sarcopenia in patients with Parkinson’s disease (PD) may have prognostic effects and may be mistaken for poor therapeutic control of PD. We aimed to evaluate sarcopenia in patients with PD. METHODS: One hundred non-demented PD patients, and 95 healthy subjects were included in the study. Avarage-Muscle mass, weight, bone mass, fat mass, basal metabolism rate (BMR), body…

Out-of-hospital cardiac arrest or OHCA is an abrupt loss of cardiac function in a public setting, usually occurring instantly or soon after symptom development (American Heart Association [AHA], 2014-a). Defibrillation and cardiopulmonary resuscitation or CPR are well-documented variables in predicting poor OHCA outcomes (Bur et al. 2001). CPR is the method of compressing a patient’s chest at 100 beats per minute, providing adequate blood flow to the body’s vital organs, preserving life (New…