Cardiac Rehabilitation Cardiac rehabilitation is a medically supervised program to help heart patients recover quickly and improve their overall physical‚ mental and social functioning. The goal is to stabilize‚ slow or even reverse the progression of cardiovascular disease‚ thereby reducing the risk of heart disease‚ another cardiac event or death. Cardiac rehabilitation programs include: Counseling so the patient can understand and manage the disease process Beginning an exercise program
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Reflective Practice on Responsibilities of A Nurse in managing Cardiac Arrest Leena Justus Introduction Nursing is a profession where we have to work collaboratively with both our colleagues and the interdisciplinary team. In emergency like cardiac arrest‚ if nurses work as a team without any role confusion‚ time is saved resulting in saving many precious lives. Background It was the time when I started to work in a medical ward for the first time after my graduation
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* Normally‚ the cavity between the pericardial layers contains 10-30mL of serous fluid * A pericardial effusion occurs if additional blood or fluid collects in this space. If the amount of fluid continues to increased and cardiac chamber filling is impeded‚ cardiac tamponade results * VAGUS – major PNS innervation of the heart * CALCIUM – is the main cation affecting electrical stimulation of the heart * THRESHHOLD – is the stimulus that changes the resting membrane * COLD –
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Cardiac Surgeon Cardiac surgeons treat valvular heart diseases such as valve stenosis or vessel insufficiency‚ ischemic heart disease‚ coronary artery disease‚ atherosclerosis and congenital defects. They treat these diseases by repairing or replacing heart valves‚ widen clogged arteries‚ repair aortic aneurysms‚ implant defibrillators and pacemakers‚ and perform double‚ triple‚ quadruple‚ and sometimes even quintuple heart bypasses. Cardiac surgeons must complete internships and residency requirements
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Running head: HEALTH PROMOTION OF CARDIAC REHABILITATION 1 Health Promotion of Cardiac Rehabilitation: Post-Surgery Elderly Patients Justin Jackson Creighton University HEALTH PROMOTION OF CARDIAC REHABILITATION 2 Cardiac Rehabilitation Effects on Elderly Patients The spike in births from 1946 to 1964 has created a large population of elderly citizens in the United States. Statistics show that 7.1 individuals turn 50 years of age every minute (“The Boomer Stats‚” 2009). The growth
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obstacles in rehabilitation. For instance‚ mental illness is not something that can be completely cured. The symptoms can be lessened‚ and a mentally ill person may be able to live a productive life if they receive treatment and /or medication. However‚ they will still have diagnoses of mental illness. Rehabilitation of mental ill inmates should consist of helping the individual to recover from lost skill‚ coping with everyday demands‚ and restoring broken relationships. The rehabilitation may also have
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Rehabilitation is generally designed to facilitate recovery from illness‚ injury or disease to a normal level of functioning. Usually this involves medical and physical treatment and rehabilitation‚ however‚ a person’s recovery has a myriad of other aspects for holistic rehabilitation. In the case of Hannah‚ she has both her physical restrictions to overcome as well as social adjustment to her new situation and her rehabilitation will also involve her family’s adjustment to changes to her lifestyle
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Rehabilitation begin in the 1900s to help the renovations of the correctional system such as implementation of indeterminate sentencing‚ parole‚ probation‚ and a separated juvenile system. So‚ for seven-decade offender treatment ruled as the dominate in corrections philosophy. But‚ in the early 1970s‚ rehabilitation suffered a sudden and dramatic setback and liberals blamed rehabilitation for allowing the State to use force or threats against offenders‚ and conservative blame rehabilitation for allowing
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CARDIAC TUMORS INTRODUCTION Cardiac tumours occur quite rarely‚ with metastatic neoplasms three times more prevalent than primary tumours. A large variety of benign and malignant tumours of the heart have been described. These tumors are found mainly in the heart‚ but can occur in the pericardium or the great arteries. Secondary cardiac involvement from malignant tumors of adjacent organs (lung‚ thymus) or from kidney (Wilms tumor) or liver‚ or even remote organs‚ are also seen. ANATOMY AND PHYSIOLOGY
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Cardiac Cycle The cardiac cycle describes the coordinated and rhythmic series of muscular contractions associated with the normal heart beat. The cardiac cycle can be subdivided into two major phases‚ the systolic phase and the diastolic phase. Systole occurs when the ventricles of the heart contract. Accordingly‚ systole results in the highest pressures within the systemic and pulmonary circulatory systems. Diastole is the period between ventricular contractions when the right and left ventricles
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