Bradycardia

Bradycardia – Pacemaker BRADYCARDIA After critical analysis and thorough overview of Emma’s current symptoms such as chest pain and skipped heartbeats, as well as tiredness and weakness. It is highly likely that Emma’s has bradycardia. WHAT IS BRADYCARDIA? At a large scope, Bradycardia is a slower than normal heart rate. On average, a heart rate of 60 to 100 beats per minute is normal. However, if your heart rate is less than 60 beats per minute, it is slower than normal. A slower heart rate

Creating a Flow Chart: Bradycardia Today’s healthcare environment is facing tremendous challenges in order to ensure safe, quality care, while simultaneously providing affordable care that is still able to produce revenue. With continuously escalating healthcare demands emerging from the population, healthcare providers and professionals have no choice but to accept these challenges and put forth the best possible approach to meet these demands involving patient care. New ideas for managing tests

What is an appropriate focused assessment and care to provide a patient with a suspected DVT? A focused assessment is an assessment that centers directly on the chief complaint that a patient presents with when they arrive to seek out care. In this case, our assessment is focused on a potential deep vein thrombosis (DVT). A DVT is a essentially a ball of blood cells that are clumped together impeding blood flow which can cause irritation to the vein and potentially more dangerous problems. If

Lab Objective The purpose of this lab is to see how different temperatures influence the diving reflex which involves three factors: bradycardia, peripheral vasoconstriction, and blood shift. Effect on heart rate will be determined in this experiment. Hypothesis It is expected that immediate submersion in cold water will result in bradycardia because of the decrease in cardiac output that occurs. In order to maintain normal blood pressure, heart rate must decrease. Reducing the heart rate and cardiac

What is POTS? Postural Orthostatic Tachycardia Syndrome (POTS) is a type of dysautonomia1 that affects numerous people around the world. When diagnosing POTS, a Tilt Table test is frequently used and the heart rate of the patient must increase by 30 beats per minute (bpm) or more, or be over 120 bpm, within the first 10 minutes of being placed in the vertical position from the supine position and with an absence of orthostatic hypotension2. Patients affected with POTS may have symptoms that range

Introduction: We present a case of extreme bradycardia in a patient with Batten Disease Background: Batten Disease is a rare and fatal autosomal recessive neurodegenerative disorder, regarded as the juvenile form of neuronal ceroid lipofuscinoses (NCL). It is most commonly associated with mutations in the CLN3 gene and involves lipofuscins accumulation in the neuronal tissues. We present a case of first degree arterioventricluar block in a patient with batten disease, treated with permanent pacemaker

Arrhythmias can be categorized into three main groups. These groups are known as tachycardia, bradycardia, and irregular rhythm of the heart. (National Institutes of Health, 2011) When a heart beats too fast it is known as tachycardia. This fast heart rate is specifically caused by abnormal electrical signals in the atria interfering with the hearts pacemaker, resulting

A three year old male patient came to the floor from the emergency department for treatment of unexplained fever and bradycardia. Upon arrival to the floor, patients PEWS score was a one and no immediate interventions were needed. Urine specimen was taken, initial results were positive for a urinary tract infection. The patient denies pain while voiding. Intravenous antibiotics were started. According to the head to toe check list, the patient had no variances to chart. The patient was stable and

Experiment A: The main purpose of this experiment, was to demonstrate and understand the effect of breath-holding on the heart rate (apnoea). Bradycardia effect refers to a decrease in heart rate and this would have been the ideal outcome of our experiment (breath-holding), by demonstrating the cardiovascular control centre responding to the breath-hold via the chemoreceptors; hence leading to an activation of an increase in parasympathetic nerve activity to the heart. The decrease in the heart rate

fatal condition that affects the cardiac muscle, the heart. Arrhythmia's are identified according to two factors. Firstly, where they originate, the artria or ventricals. And secondly, they are classified on whether the heart is beating too slow; Bradycardia, or too fast; trachycardia. A high or slow heart beats does not always necessarily mean there is heart disease though. The heart rate increases during exercise, of course this is normal. Sometimes a really fit athlete can have a resting heart rate