egg or be acquired at any time during fetal development. The causes of many congenital disorders are not known. Congenital disorders include minor physical anomalies (e.g.‚ a birthmark)‚ severe malformations of single systems (e.g.‚ congenital heart disease or amelia of the legs)‚ and combinations of abnormalities affecting several parts of the body. Defects of metabolism are also considered congenital disorders. A congenital disorder can have trivial or grave effects. The most severe‚ such as anencephaly
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Coronary artery bypass graft surgery (CABG) is an advance surgical method meant for treating coronary heart diseases or CHD. In coronary artery bypass surgery‚ healthy veins or arteries from different parts of the body are grafted around the heart or onto the blocked aorta. These grafted portions bypass the blocked areas of the artery and thus create a new route for the blood to reach the heart. Coronary artery bypass graft surgery or CABG is one of the most popular open heart surgery methods performed
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the United States alone are born with congenital heart defects every year (Fact Sheets). With this number increasing‚ it is highly likely that a student in a general biology class would know someone who was born with a heart defect (Fact Sheets). Because of these developing numbers‚ cardiac surgeons and cardiologists collaborated with special engineers in order to make a groundbreaking operating room that would be tailored to specific child heart defects. With this collaboration‚ they designed Hybrid
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I have a patient coming to ICU from emergency department with diagnosis of severe hypertension and history of ischemic heart disease. The patient was started with infusion GTN at 1cc/hours. In intensive care‚ the BP persistently increasing and my doctor ordered to increasing the dose of GTN infusion to 5cc/hours. The BP was decreasing down to 120/90mmhg in 15 minute later. The dose of infusion will reduce to 1cc/hours. BP was persistently decreasing to 70/40mmhg. All the team were query why the BP
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My name is Melissa Losada. I was born in Michigan in the year 1995. I lived there with my mom until my younger sister Rebecca was born. Soon after we moved to West Virginia to be with my grandmother‚ it was 1996 I was two years old when I moved to the city of Beckley‚ West Virginia and that is the only place I have ever lived since. Beaver elementary is where I went to elementary school‚ I lived directly in front of the school so I was never really far from home. Back then my mom was our girl scout
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Cardiovascular System: The Heart Purpose Explain why you did this exercise. Where there any safety precautions you needed to follow? If so‚ what were they? The safety precautions in this exercise were to wear goggles and gloves due to being exposed to chemicals and dissection of the sheep and cat heart. Appropriate work space was also required. Exercise 1: Microscopic
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complications of arrhythmias in the future. (American Heart Association) Risk Factors: 1. 2. 3. 4. 5. 6. Age (MayoClinic.com and Heart Rhythm Society); menopause (Women’s Heart Foundation) High blood pressure (MayoClinic.com and Heart Rhythm Society) Obesity (MayoClinic.com and Heart Rhythm Society) Caffeine (MayoClinic.com and Heart Rhythm Society) Stress (Heart Rhythm Society) OTC medications – some blood pressure medications (Heart Rhythm Society); somewhere saw something about decongestants
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PATIENT HEALTH ASSESSMENT Student’s Name: Antonina Polukhina Date: 4/1/2015 Clinical Facility: NCMC PHYSICAL ASSESSMENT: Patient Initials: S. E. Age: 58 y. o. Sex: Female Admitting Diagnosis: weakness/dizziness Vital Signs: Temp. 97.4‚ Pulse 106‚ Respirations 18‚ BP 118/56 Ht/Wt/BMI: Height = 167.64 cm‚ Weight = 84.878 kg‚ BMI 30.2 Skin/Wounds: (Skin turgor; presence of any skin breakdown; incisions; wounds.) Subjective: patient denies any skin breakdowns. Objective: leg skin is
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Moral dilemmas in medical practice Interview assignment with health care professional Ofra Weisz Student number: 2031213 Ofra_91@hotmail.com Mobile number: 06 21865469 07-10-2012 Amsterdam University College Honours programme Teachers: Prof. dr. Guy Widdershoven Drs. Suzanne Metselaar Biographical background Mrs. M. is twenty five years old and got married three years ago. She was born and raised in the Netherlands and has a religious Jewish background. M. is studying
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a. On this visit‚ Mrs. Robbins states that she is having difficulty sleeping and has episodes of chest pain. How does the nurse correlate these clinical manifestations to aortic stenosis? b. The nurse assesses Mrs. Robbins for what types of heart sounds that are consistent with aortic stenosis? c. What is the rationale for prophylactic antibiotics prior to invasive procedures for the patient with aortic stenosis?
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