Arterial Catheter Lab Report

A medical kit consists of equipment like bandages, fluids, scissors, wound dressings, tape, and gloves used in day to day treatments. Every time a paramedic approaches the scene they are equipping there BSI (body substance isolation). BSI consists of gloves, safety glasses, and masks to prevent transmissions of diseases. Every patient is treated as if they have a disease. Inflatable splints are used to immobilize and protect a broken arm or leg. Inflatable splints are stored and deflated in a small bag in the ambulance. The paramedic uses a small hand pump to inflate the splint. The splint is very expensive and not all EMS services budget air splints. A blood pressure cuff allows paramedics to measure your blood pressure for diagnostics. Blood pressure is the pressure of the blood in the arteries. There are two numbers that are recorded, which are the systolic and diastolic. Systolic is the amount of pressure that is pushed against the artery and the diastolic is the relaxation of the artery. A blood pressure is constantly changing and can be affected by the heart rate, the volume of blood in the body or even a stressful situation. Paramedics can use blood pressure numbers for finding causes such as heart attacks, and also in trauma injuries to know if the patient is losing blood. A normal blood pressure is one-hundred twenty over

This past Friday in the cardiac catheterization lab I began my day with continuing the work that I was previously assigned to do last week where I collected the data of patient's Cardiothoracic surgery. I continued to familiarize myself with the different types of Cardiothoracic surgery procedures, however, the specific reports I was working with, they are called TAVR report (Transcatheter Aortic Valve Replacement). I later learned and was explained to, the TAVR multiple procedures and its causes, which is aortic stenosis. As for the procedures, a valve needs to be placed in the heart and each procedure delivers it a different way. The three ways the valve can be placed in the heart is through the heart's femoral artery (the transfemoral approach),

Central lines and peripherally inserted central catheter are tubes inserted in a patient’s vein. They are required to help the patient get medication and nutrition. There are so many articles about these tubes, what they are, how to put them, and how to care about them. To achieve the aim of these tubes without complications, the people with them should know about them and know how to care for them, what is not normal about them, what to do in case of complications, and when to call their healthcare provider. In this paper the safety, teaching and care about the central and peripherally inserted central catheter will be discussed.

A review of her medical records indicates that she was recently admitted to MMH from 2/28/17 to 3/3/17 and treated for pneumonia and UTI. Her recently labs that was done in February indicated a BNP of 861. She continues to suffer from chronic UTI and had her indwelling Foley catheter discontinued on 3/19/17. She continues to suffer from chronic anemia and chronic kidney disease. She is legally blind.

You will be connected to several monitors. The connection can be via patches on the chest, a cuff around the arm, or a sensor device on a finger. The monitors will allow your health care provider to watch your blood pressure, pulse, and oxygen levels to make sure that the anesthetic does not cause any problems.

Assessing an arterial line the nurse looks at the insertion site does it look red, swollen, is the transducer even with the patient’s right atrium and does the BP readings look accurate? To monitor for accurate circulation, you look at circulation below the site, is there a pulse and are the extremities looking blue? A benefit of this is having a constant BP reading and tells the patients temperature. Some negatives is that it can be an extra risk for infection. Potential complications is the lower part of the extremity is not receiving adequate

As the slightest of things have an impact on the blood pressure reading result, this could in turn make the patient anxious, which would naturally cause their reading to be elevated, and not necessarily give a true reading. This is why it is imperative that when carrying out this skill, that the individual feels comfortable and totally at ease. In order to do this you would always ensure that the patient understands the procedure, why it is being done and how it is done. Effective communication is key, as the patient needs to be spoken to, using a language that they are able to understand and relate to. Using medical terminology, irrespective of how accurate the information may be, would not necessarily give the patient any

Seth Kahn’s (2011), article entitled, “Putting Ethnographic Writing in Context,” identifies ethnography as the study of “relationships, rituals, values, and habits that make people understand themselves as members of a group.” Ethnographers adopt a stance of observation, as well as participation to better understand the discourse among members within a particular group, or discourse community (Khan, 2011). This ethnographic research will “connect what community members know and do, with what they say and how they say it” (Devitt, Bawarshi, & Reiff, 2003). The purpose of this study is to explore how nurses, working in a cardiac catheterization laboratory, learn the ‘local knowledge’ necessary to communicate with a multidisciplinary discourse community successfully. To protect the identity of participants in this study, the name of the laboratory included in the study will be identified as the XYZ Cardiac Catheterization Laboratory.

The decision either to perform or not to perform a cardiac catheterization in a patient who also has acute renal failure can be a difficult decision to reach. Diagnostic blood and urine tests can prove to be beneficial in helping the provider make such a tough decision. The contrast used in the cardiac catheterization can harm the function of the kidneys, and it can push the patient from acute to chronic renal failure, which can influence quality of life as well as morbidity and mortality. When a patient has chest pain, the nurse practitioner should perform a thorough assessment to ensure the angina is cardiac-related and not from another source, such as pleuritic chest pain or muscular chest pain (Grossman & Porth, 2014). Once it is confirmed by one’s assessment that the chest pain is cardiac-related, then one should look at serum diagnostic results, such as the cardiac enzymes.

During my clinical rotation at Florida Hospital, Tampa, I got the opportunity of doing retrospective analysis on EKOS Catheter and Angiovac Cannula Systems. Study of EKOS Catheter is mainly focused on the effect of ultrasound-guided localized release of tPA within the pulmonary artery on pulmonary artery pressures while Angiovac study deals with catheter assisted decrease in systemic thrombus load and its benefits and complications. While working on data collection, I have gained a considerable command on CERNER software of EMRs. The foresight, precision and patience I am learning as a researcher will help me better understand a disease from its origin and enable me to become a better clinician.

Catheter angiography can accurately evaluate aortic pararenal patency. This is especially important when placing engrafts at the iliac bifurcation site. CTA is more sensitive to assessing endoleaks occurring after EVAR procedures, but digit subtraction angiography (DSA) is more accurate in classifying endoleaks. This is possible because the direction of flow in or out of the aneurysm site can be evaluated via DSA. Catheter angiography plays a role in imaging intraoperative EVAR patients for endoleak classification and for post-operative re-intervention (Francois et al., 2012). Figure 5 illustrates an arteriogram taken in preparation for an EVAR procedure, while Figure 6 was taken after the EVAR procedure was

Nurse Vincent M. Vacca, Jr. aptly described in this issue of the Nursing Journal the significance of early detection and health management of people who are or are maybe suffering from Pulmonary Arterial Hypertension. He described PAH as a condition wherein a patient is having a mean pulmonary arterial (PA) pressure of greater than 25 mm

Maintain a closed chest drainage system; tape all connections and secure tubing carefully at the insertion site with adhesive bandages

Arterial catheterization is a commonly performed invasive procedure in the ICU and anesthetized patients, facilitating accurate hemodynamic monitoring and frequent blood sampling. The insertion of arterial catheter especially in patients with hypotension, edema, and obesity, is often difficult and may require multiple attempts. Repeated attempts may lead to more difficult catheterization due to arterial spasm and may increase the incidence of thrombosis and hematoma formation [1]. The radial artery is the commonest site for catheterization owing to its superficial course and its dual arterial supply to the hand [2].

In the human body it's a very complex machine that is difficult to understand. One of the best ways for us to understand the human body is to examine the different types of exercise and the strain that they put on a different parts of the body and how the heart can react to the stress and strain. And the slap you're doing exactly that different types of exercise to put strain stress on the heart in order to bird artist and blood pressure. In this lab we learn about blood pressure how to take blood pressure and how it relates to upper and lower body exercise.