Cardall's Analysis

On May 4, off an interstate highway in Williston, Vermont, a truck driver named Paul Bristol(68 years old) suffered a sudden heart attack which caused him to go into the left lane and swerving along the guardrail for about 300 feet. A homeless man named James Pocock who had been living in the wood off the interstate for a couple of months seen a cloud of concrete dust as the truck hit the guardrail. He quickly sprang into action in order to save the life of Paul Bristol. James Pocock ran to the scene and found Bristol unconscious, with no pulse. Pocock then proceeded to give CPR. Pocock revived Bristol after countless CPR, which helped Bristol survive.

Eddie was closely observed in the CCU after his PPCI due to the high risk of mortality caused by arrhythmias (Hubbard, 2003; Thomson, 2010). He was then brought to the cardiology ward after he was stabilised, however he was still intently monitored. Eddie was still in a critical condition but due to the PPCI's success of reperfusing the cardiac muscle, the nursing staff were able to focus on Eddie's care holistically.

Erin Geoffrey II, his father, a rich, prominent Brain Surgeon, married seven times. Devoted to long hours teaching students tarnished his marriages. Death do us part, was literally deleted in the wedding vows of his last three weddings. In addition temptation had caressed his dark side of life with flames of desire, want and need quite a lot, while the other side of his life demanded full attention with life-and-death decisions daily. Oh, don't get me wrong, Erin Geoffrey II was a grateful man who fought his way from poverty. The horrible disease of brain cancer had taken his mother to her death, dying at home in his arms; he was sixteen at the time. Erin's father was a truck driver, and he left 30 days after his wife’s death, never to return

Adam Vasser was thirteen years old when an unknown virus infected his heart. When he arrived at a clinic, a doctor checked his vitals and he was rushed to a hospital. By the time he arrived he was having a complete heart failure. Adam waited in the hospital for four and a half months, only able to breathe with the assistance of a left-ventricular assist device, until he received a heart transplant that saved his life.

For an electronic search to be successful it is important to find the right key words or concepts required to retrieve the journal articles as journal articles are indexed and entered onto the databases using keywords (Aveyard, 2014). The keywords for this literature review derived from the research question and synonyms words (Schneider, Elliott, LoBiondo-Wood and Haber, 2004). The keywords identified and retrieved used a combination of the following keywords; CPR, cardiac arrest, cardiopulmonary resuscitat*, famil* and family carer*. The keywords 'family ', 'witnessed

It is a cold grey afternoon with a dull sky and ragged clouds. The last leaf on the tree was finally blown off by the wind, the leaves crunched beneath your feet as you walk on it. The awful smell of dried leaves filled the air and out in the distance, the leafless tree’s branches wobbled around as the wind pushed and blow them around. The dark clouds look furious but me and my younger brother, Allie are happy as hell. We just got a new baseball ball gifted from my older brother, D.B.

After Dr. Bilbrew left his son’s school, he was quickly on his way back to the hospital. While he was discussing with Dr. Baker some of the events that occurred while he was gone on the phone, he noticed a car halfway submerged into the lake 20 miles from the hospital. He drove to the car and saw two people on the inside. It was an elderly couple. Apparently, the driver had a seizure and ran into the lake. Dr. Bilbrew called the ambulance. He then successfully removed both people from the car. The driver was suffering from a head wound and the passenger was unconscious. Practicing CPR, Dr. Bilbrew was able to successfully help her to regain consciousness. Both people were admitted to the hospital in good condition. Later that evening, Dr. Bilbrew

Six... seven... eight. “You’re going to have to push harder than that! What’s her oxygen reading? Alright, let’s give her another dose of Epi.” Sweat was dripping down my face and adrenaline was rushing through my system. I was out of breath, but I pressed harder like the doctor asked. Twenty-eight... twenty-nine... thirty. “Okay, she’s tired, have someone switch off with her. Let’s keep going. I’ll go update the husband.” It had been forty minutes since the patient coded. Everyone had been exhausted from taking turns doing CPR. The patient’s face was pale and hands were ice cold. I wiped my sweat off and took a quick look at the patient’s face as I stepped down for the next person to do CPR. She looked like every other person that I probably could have met on the street, at the mall, or at a random restaurant. She was young. I watched silently as the EMT performed the compressions. The patient’s arms were hanging off the gurney, bobbing up and down

The depiction of a young boy falling deeper into the hopelessness of being rejected as an heart recipient and the helplessness of the parents as they watch their son’s condition continue to worsen because they are unable to provide the funds necessary to pay for the intervention successfully conveys the message that the results of allocative decisions are not always just and favor those with the ability to pay for the procedure. In the context of the film, it is important to note the role of hopelessness and helplessness felt by the Archibald family as a result of the organ allocation process and decision. It is no secret that illness and bodily deterioration can adversely affect the mood and emotions of a patient by promoting feelings of helplessness and a loss of hope. But, frequently one might observe the emotions of family members be similarly affected when a grim prognosis is delivered sensing that the situation is beyond anyone’s control and this leads to a deep sense of helplessness. This holds true especially for parents as in the case of the Archibald family. As a parent raises a child, benevolence and pleasing sacrifice are at the core of the parental emotional complex. So, when a child become ill, it presents as one of the few situations in which the parent is unable to offer more than comforting words of compassion and love. A parent that has devoted years of aid and

Even with this painless, well-paid job that provides her a good quality of life, Maureen is not at peace with herself since her twin brother Louis has died from a heart malfunction. In truth, Maureen also

The surgeon was called back to the operating room during the respiratory crisis to perform a tracheostomy. There was however no improvement in the patient’s oxygenation and he continued to have asystole. He went into respiratory arrest and coded at 5:15 P.M. The code team attempted to resuscitate the patient between 5:15 P.M. and 5:59 P.M., but no cardiac activity was achieved. At 5:59 P.M. the code and CPR were terminated and the patient was pronounced dead.

In March 2008 my son Christopher died suddenly from a ruptured brain aneurysm. Chris was an otherwise strapping 19-year-old freshman at Loyola University New Orleans. He had his whole life ahead of him. If you lose your parents, you are an orphan. Lose a spouse and you become a widow or widower. But the English language does not have a word for parents who lose a child; we seldom take the time to contemplate the devastation until it happens. In the awful, bewildering hours after Christopher’s death, my wife and I were asked to consider donating his organs. Thankfully, Chris had answered for us: Just the week before, he had innocently mentioned that he wished to be a donor. Our decision to donate was simply an affirmation of our son’s generosity.

The human heart never ceases to amaze me. It pulsates, sending life sustaining blood to the surrounding organs in a harmonious equilibrium, but one disturbance and the heart’s owner could become lifeless. My father had a heart attack in 2007. My mother called 911, and my six-year old brain couldn’t really process what was happening. I only registered fear and pain. A flashing and ambulance arrived soon after and strapped an oxygen mask to my dad, placed an IV, and gave him some medication. He was rushed to the New York Hospital of Queens and received a quadruple bypass. After that ambulance left, I was scared I wouldn’t see him again; not everyone’s family member is lucky enough to survive that kind of operation. I might not have gotten my

Most cultures value life and bringing persons back from the dead is a popular subject of many fictional books. However, as technology evolves and the story of Frankenstein reborn with a bolt of lighting has come true with the external or implanted defibrillators, the natural process of death slows as much of society gains the knowledge to live longer than nature intended. The Red Cross Association taught many organizations like the girl and boy scouts the methods of mouth-to-mouth resuscitation and Cardiopulmonary resuscitation or CPR, a manual manipulation of the heart, as life saving methods for drowning, electrocution or heart attacks. First aid for laypersons to save lives as well as

I was supposed to go camping that evening, but little did I know that I was going to be spending the next three days in a hospital fearing for my brother’s life. This is my story about the scariest moment in my life, when my brother was on the edge of dying.