Information: ECT‚ previously known as shock therapy‚ is a method for treating certain mental or emotional conditions by stimulating the brain electrically in order to produce a cerebral seizure. The procedure is carried out by doctors and nurses while the patient is fully asleep under general anesthesia. Description of the Procedure: While the patient is laying on a stretcher‚ a needle is placed in a vein and an anesthetic medication is injected. After the patient is asleep‚ a muscle relaxing medication
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Arrhythmias Arrhythmias are any change from the normal sequence of the electrical impulses in the heart. An arrhythmia is when your heart cannot pump blood effectively. It may happen to fast‚ to slowly‚ or it may happen erratically. When arrhythmias occur; the lungs‚ brain‚ and other organs cannot work properly and they may shut down and be damaged. A normal heart beat is strong‚ muscular pump that is a little larger than a fist and pumps blood continuously through the circulatory system. Arrhythmias
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Nephron Sparing Transcatheter Renal Artery Embolization in Trauma Patient Introduction: Acute renal hemorrhage is a common medical emergency‚ which can lead to hemorrhagic shock and eventual death. Complete nephrectomy is used in emergency surgery and is associated with significant postoperative complications. Employing nephron sparing super-selective Transcatheter renal artery embolization techniques can be used to treat acute renal bleeding disorders eliminating need for exploratory laparotomy
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Abstract: Atherosclerosis is one of the important cardiovascular disease‚ which often leads to narrowed arteries that obstruct the flow of oxygenated blood which may limit the oxygen delivery to the heart muscle and can lead to a heart attack. The blood flow through these narrow arteries is often restored by inserting folding structures‚ named Stent. A Stent is small expandable mesh-tube like device that is used to treat narrow arteries and allow the passage of oxygenated blood to heart. The aim
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Tara is a 32yo‚ G3 P2002‚ who is currently 22 weeks 2 days. She follows in the High Risk Obstetrical Clinic secondary to a history of chronic HTN. She also has a history of preeclampsia in both her prior pregnancies. She reports that her high BP developed in her 1st pregnancy. Around 2 years later she had a stroke that she reportedly thinks was related to uncontrolled HTN. There has been some question in her history about a thrombophilia specifically factor V Leiden‚ although we do have a negative
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Diabetes mellitus is a serious condition that should be managed properly to prevent complications. These complications from diabetes mellitus can lead to health problems and even death if not managed. The problems occur because of changed in large blood vessels‚ also known as macrovascular‚ as well as small blood vessels know as‚ microvascular‚ in tissues and organs. Microvascular complications can lead to nephropathy‚ neuropathy‚ and retinopathy. The main cause of microvascular complications is
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You may have only few seconds to save a life when you in an emergency. Is anything you can do in an emergency until help arrives? You should do‚ because the only person you may have to depend on is yourself. First aid is the immediate care given to a victim of injury or sudden illness before professional medical help arrives. Cardiopulmonary resuscitation (CPR) is a method of combining chest compressions with rescue breathing to maintain a flow of oxygen-rich blood to the brain while the heart is
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Tetanus is a neuromuscular disease caused by an anaerobic‚ Gram-positive‚ spore-forming bacillus called Clostridium tetani‚ a species of bacteria of the Clostridium genus‚ that produces a powerful neurotoxin called tetanospasmin The most common first symptom of tetanus is spasms or tightening of the jaw muscles referred to as "lockjaw". Other symptoms include headaches‚ sudden muscle spasms-often in the stomach‚ sweating and fever‚ painful muscle stiffness throughout the body‚ difficulty swallowing
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The County Fire Department is one of the largest departments in Maryland providing fire protection‚ emergency medical services‚ as well as other services to over 800‚000 citizen. The department is a fire-based EMS system that answers around 130‚000 calls a year‚ with 70% being Emergency Medical Services (EMS) related making EMTs and Paramedics the backbone of the department. There is around 1‚100 employees with 20% of those employees being paramedics. The function of a paramedic is to provide advance
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1. What part of the brain or nervous system it is associated with? Transient ischemic attack occurs in the nervous system. The term “Ischemia” refers to the heart‚ and is translated to “not quite enough blood”. A transient ischemic attack occurs when the blood flow to a part of the brain stops for a short amount of time. It clots the blood in the heart‚ causing a mini-stroke. It can cause weakness in the arm or a partial loss of vision‚ but the problem lasts less than 24 hours. People who get TIA’s
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