EKG Measurement and Interpretation at Rest and During Exercise Jonathan Murdock March 5‚ 2013 March 19‚ 2013 (KIN 375) Purpose: In the United States‚ people suffer from heart problems every day. According to the Centers of Disease Control and Prevention (CDC)‚ every year about 935‚000 people in the United States suffer from a heart attack and about 600‚000 die from heart problems. Electrocardiograms (EKG or ECG) provide important information concerning the electrical activity
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Atherosclerosis is a form of cardiovascular disease in which the inner layers of artery walls are made thick and irregular by plaque deposits; arteries become narrow and blood supply can be reduced. (pg. 409) Atherosclerosis is deposited by fatty substances (called plaques) in the walls of the arteries. (pg.249) The arteries become narrow due to a person having high blood pressure which makes the heart work harder which forces the blood through the arteries making it narrow and stiffen. They also
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Tachycardia Condition The normality of the heart beats rate is of sixty to one hundred beats a minute at rest. A rate that is faster than 100 beats a minute in adults is called tachycardia. People experience transient heart beats‚ called sinus tachycardia‚ as a normal reaction to some type of excitement‚ anxiety‚ stress‚ or just exercise. There are two other types of tachycardia and those are named supraventricular tachycardia and ventricular tachycardia. The condition of tachycardia is caused
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Nursing Care: Congestive Heart Failure Beverly Baum‚ Chrysten Brown and Christina Bhowanidan Herzing University Nursing Care: Congestive Heart Failure The general population is living longer than ever before. The Federal Interagency on Aging-Related Statistics (2012) states “The number of older people will increase dramatically during 2010-2030 period. The older population in 2030 is projected to be twice as large as their counterparts in 2000‚ growing from 35 million to 72 million and
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Heart Diseases Arrhythmogenic right ventricular dysplasia Arrhythmogenic right ventricular dysplasia is a genetic disease in which normal heart tissue is progressively replaced with fat and scar tissue. According to St. Lukes-Roosevelt Hospital Center‚ tissue damage occurs predominantly in the right chamber of the heart. People who inherit this genetic disease may develop arrhythmias‚ or abnormal heart rhythms. Arrhythmogenic right ventricular dysplasia is a known cause of sudden death from
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One of the most embarrassing and uncomfortable diseases is urinary incontinence. Urinary Incontinence can be defined as a medical condition in which the patient loses the control of the bladder. Generally‚ it is more common in women more than men. Fifty to eighty percent of the elderly are affected by urinary incontinence. Depending on the condition the leakage varies from a small dribble to a large quantity of urine. There are about three to six million people with urinary incontinence in the UK
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1.10 Angina Pectoris: Angina–also sometimes called angina pectoris—is a symptom of an underlying heart condition. It means that the heart is not getting enough blood and as a result‚ not enough oxygen. This decrease of oxygen being delivered to the muscle of the heart happens if one or more coronary arteries are narrowed or blocked‚ a condition called atherosclerosis. This type of blockage may result in chest pain. And while angina does not usually damage the heart‚ and the pain might only last a
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In congestive heart failure‚ the heart is not able to pump enough oxygen and nutrition to meet the requirements of the body and it may be chronic or acute. Heart failure is caused by many disorders that injure the heart muscles including‚ heart attack‚ cardiomyopathy‚ coronary artery disease‚ and conditions that overwork the heart‚ such as high blood pressure‚ diabetes‚ thyroid problems and kidney problems. At the point when a heart starts to fail‚ it causes additional liquid to develop in the body
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Pericardial effusion is a cardiovascular disease‚ and it arises when too much fluid accumulates around the heart and the pericardium. Signs and symptoms may not surface‚ even if one has severe pericardial effusion‚ notably when the fluid has accumulated slowly. However‚ if signs are present‚ they may include: cough‚ pain when breathing while lying down (orthopnea)‚ fatigue‚ low-grade fever‚ shortness of breath‚ difficulty breathing (dyspnea)‚ chest pain (on the left side of the chest or behind the
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Without the cardiovascular system‚ we would not be alive. The cardiovascular system is essentially a synonym for the circulatory system which is "the system that circulates blood and lymph through the body‚ consisting of the heart‚ blood vessels‚ blood‚ lymph‚ and lymphatic vessels and glands" (Circulatory…). The cardiovascular system is crucial to have‚ as it supplies oxygen and gives nutrients to every part of our body. The cardiovascular system‚ in fact‚ is one of the most important systems consisting
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