Chronic Diseases: Heart Disease Heart disease is the most frequent condition affecting the heart‚ known as coronary artery disease. Over time‚ a buildup of cholesterol creates a substance of plaque on the inside of the coronary arteries blocking the blood flow to the heart causing it to damage the heart muscle. When a heart attack occurs‚ it creates permanent damage killing a portion of the heart. If the heart cannot effectively pump blood to the body‚ it will reduce the flow‚ and begin beating
Premium Heart Coronary artery disease Artery
Hypertension Sha’mes Lashawn Handford Moss Point High School November 16‚ 2012 Abstract Hypertension is the most chronic medical condition that adults have. This disease affects many organs of the body including the heart‚ eyes‚ and kidney. Hypertension can increase with age‚ weight‚ and inheritance. Generally‚ the hypertensive population is increasing but physicians are working on various treatments to prevent and control this disease. Prescription drugs in the United States are
Premium Hypertension
Nursing Mrs. K.‚ A 68 year-old white woman‚ has been admitted to the critical care unit with shortness of breath at rest. Vital signs are BP‚ 218/100 mm Hg; HR‚ 110 beats/min; and RR‚ 3 breath/min. She has run out of her antihypertensive medication for the fourth time this year and only came to the hospital because of her breathing difficulties. On examination‚ Mrs. K. is pale and clammy sitting upright in a chair. She has bibasilar crackles to her scapulae‚ and her heart rhythm is irregularly
Premium Heart Blood Myocardial infarction
Case Study #1: Chronic Heart Failure Case study #1 (see attached) tells about a patient‚ Maria‚ who has a history of hypertension and high cholesterol and 30 pack a year smoking.i Although normally under control with medication‚ upon traveling by plane she experienced what she thought was new condition with new symptoms which would ultimately be diagnosed as chronic heart failure. Maria’s recent history showed that she was experiencing difficulty breathing on exertion‚ fatigue‚ abdominal bloating
Premium Atmospheric pressure Myocardial infarction Pressure
This study was conducted on patient who have chronic heart failure with this patients it is important to help them with their outlook on their health and using spirituality is the way to do that. In this article‚ they talk about Heart Failure Self-Care Behavior Scale‚ Spiritual Self-Care Practice Scale‚ and World Health Organization- Quality of Life- BREF and how each of these things touch a
Premium Nursing Patient Health care
NURS 3530: Caring for Adult Clients I HEART FAILURE CASE STUDY Your client‚ Mr. Black‚ is a 72-year-old man who called his TeleNurse Line from home and‚ based on the symptoms he described‚ was advised to go directly to the Emergency Department at his local hospital. His admitting diagnosis is exacerbation of heart failure (HF). His Ht is: 5’9”‚ Wt. 235 lbs. He states that his usual weight is about 220. Upon admission‚ his symptoms are: extreme shortness of breath; unable to tolerate lying
Free Heart Hypertension Myocardial infarction
Heart failure is serious disease that contributes to death of heart disease. In order to accomplish this essay‚ I have used four key terms ‚which are heart failure‚ causes‚ signs‚ us adults‚ in electronic data base. Heart failure is one of most medical problem that physicians face. It is characterized as a serious problem because heart failure cannot be cured but only can be managed (1). It is also considered as one of life style disease. It has many causes that is related to patients’ life style
Premium Heart Myocardial infarction Hypertension
The heart functions to take deoxygenated blood from the body and pump it to the lungs to re-oxygenate it‚ to pump it back through the body. Without this system‚ body tissues wouldn’t get oxygen and therefore not function and the person would not survive. The function of the left side of the heart is to take oxygenated blood from the lungs and pump it out to and through the rest of the body. This is the systemic circulation of the heart. With every body system there are homeostatic imbalances and
Premium Heart Blood Myocardial infarction
1) Heart transplants are recommended to patients when severe heart failure is present or when one or both ventricles are not functioning like how they should be. In many forms of congenital heart disease‚ ventricular failure may also occur. It is more common in congenital defects with a single ventricle or when irreversible heart failure occurs from long-standing valve obstruction or even leakage. Patients who had the Fontan procedure as a child (which includes helping complex congenital heart defects)
Premium
History Final Ms. Magazine was a feminist magazine that told the real lives of women and events during the women’s rights movement. Ms. played an important role in the movement due to the fact that it was one of the only mainstream media forms to tell these narratives and be run by all women. Ms. Magazine had its ups and downs‚ the downs mostly when it first opened‚ and the ups when it became very successful and made people realize the truth about society. However through it all the magazine continued
Premium Magazine Gender Woman