Afl Case Study

For my whole life, I have grown up watching and playing Australian Rules football, so I knew immediately that I wanted to research a particular aspect of the game. I wanted to look at the importance of skills in the AFL (Australian Rules Football) and the influence of coaches in developing these skills to improve a player’s game. These ideas came together to produce 5my research question which is “To what extent can a coach have an impact on an AFL team?” I created many sub-questions in order to break this question down into different parts. To achieve my overall aim, I needed to examine the qualities, which a coach possessed, in order to get the best out of his AFL team. I used interviews with past and present AFL players and

The Australian Football League (AFL) is a multi-million dollar sports industry consisting of 18 teams that are spread over five states of Australia. In this section, two data sets containing the weight and height of all the players in the 18 AFL teams was analysed to determine whether using normal distribution to describe them is suitable.

I believe that this jumper would be very symbolic for the four aboriginal players on hawthorn list at the time. As each of their lives and journey’s to the AFL are depicted differently through the four tattoo circles that are linked by travel lines, showing that their lives are all connected through their jobs, heritage, race and their friendship bonds. The tattoo circles all have different symbols representing how their aboriginal groups had different beliefs and cultures when they grew up. This jumper in the end depicts the stories of hawthorn’s four aboriginal players and their roads to playing AFL.

You are working in the internal medicine clinic of a large teaching hospital. Today your first patient is 70-year-old J.M, a man who has been coming to the clinic for several years for management of CAD and HTN. A cardiac catheterization done a year ago showed 50% stenosis of the circumflex coronary artery. He has had episodes of dizziness for the past 6 months and orthostatic hypotension, shoulder discomfort, and decreased exercise tolerance for the past 2 months. On his last clinic visit 3 weeks ago, a CXR showed cardiomegaly and a 12-lead ECG showed sinus tachycardia with left bundle branch block. You review his morning blood work and initial assessment.

A cardiologist will evaluate the patient’s symptoms and will also take a look at the patient’s medical history. This serves to ensure that the diagnosis is indeed appropriate. The cardiologist might even order additional tests such as a nuclear stress test, to get a more firm or clear diagnosis. Afterwards, the cardiologist will consider what treatment avenue is best. Treatment may involve prescription drugs, lifestyle changes or more alternative methods.

Varying patients may present to their clinician or the emergency department for treatment with heart failure. It is important to understand that there is more than one type of heart failure; primarily the focus is placed on diastolic heart failure and systolic heart failure. Depending upon the cause of heart failure and what areas are affected dictates the treatment plan needed. While there are similarities with both kinds of heart failure, there are also differences that can help the clinician distinguish the diagnosis needed to fit the patient. Once a diagnosis is made the clinician can move forward in determining if the patient is at risk for use of diuretics and then look towards prescribing ACEIs, ARBs, and beta-blockers.

Parker included collecting cues in 12-lead ECG, blood pressure, potassium level, sodium level, the warmth of hands and feet and pain score (Corrales-Medina et al., 2012). Also, the process involved identifying the risk factors associated with the patient's condition. From the immediate assessment, it included weight, smoking history, history of depression and family history of cardiac conditions (Corrales-Medina et al., 2012). One evening, Mr. Parker slumped on the bed; I monitored the continuous cardiac monitor to determine his heart rhythm. Based on current information, the T wave on the ECG indicated that the ventricles are repolarising (Levett-Jones et al., 2010).

Because Congestive Heart Failure has many causes, doctors need to find the underlying cause of the heart failure. So the doctors have to find out how and why the heart is malfunctioning before they can make a diagnosis. They do this by your medical/family history, physical examination, and a series of test. Some of the tests used to discover underlying cause are blood tests to evaluate the function of organs in the body, BNP blood test, X-ray, electrocardiogram (EKG), echocardiogram (ECG), stress test, cardiac catherization, radionuclide ventriculography, or a magnetic resonance imaging (MRI).

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The EKG is read by a doctor or specialist, such as an internist, family medicine doctor, electrophysiologist, cardiologist, anesthesiologist, or surgeon. The doctor will look at the pattern of spikes and dips on your EKG to check the electrical activity in different parts of your heart. The spikes and dips are grouped into different sections that show how your heart is working

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An echocardiogram and numerous blood test may also be used to identify congestive heart failure.

Cardiovascular. Client denies chest pain, palpitations, murmurs, any arrhythmias, hypertension, awakening at night with shortness of breath, or dizzy spells. Client has not had an electrocardiogram.

The physician will complete a thorough exam. He/she will listen to the heart and lungs looking for signs of heart failure. Gallops, rapid heartbeats, and murmurs of the heart valves may be heard. The physician will palpate the abdomen to feel if the liver is enlarged. He/she will also check the skin and nail beds on fingers and

Paramedics work closely with doctors and nurses in hospital’s emergency departments, briefing them as their patient arrives at hospital (Paramedic). For example, if a patient has a heart problem, they can receive fast transportation to a healthcare facility (Ch. 15 PowerPoint, slide 3). There is a program called race used when patients are having heart problems (Kerry Slate, Personal conversation, July 13, 2015). This means that the first EKG is ran by the paramedics and sent straight to the emergency department’s physician. By the physician getting this type of information he can decide the diagnoses right away and prepare cath labs if necessary. This is why the existence of paramedics are so important. If the arteries are opened within the first ninety minutes there is a greater chance for no heart damage.