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Running Head: FAST TRACK CARE Review of Literature The Effect of Fast Track Care on Length of Stay in Patients Undergoing Cardiac Surgery Alisa Ruffner, BSN Fall 2014 University of Tennessee Health Science Center: College of Nursing NSG 819: Evaluation of Practice Introduction Cardiac surgery is among the most frequently performed surgical procedures in the United States. According to the American Heart Association, over 575,000 open heart surgeries were performed in 2005. Until

Cardiac Troponins are specific to the cardiac myocyte and have central role in diagnosing ACS. They are found to be specific and sensitive, in addition they also provide prognostic information which adds to their utility in managing and diagnosing of CAD. Constant change in levels of Cardiac Troponins is required to define ACS. CKD patients with advanced disease have misfortune of having both a dramatically high rate of cardiac mortality paired with decreased ability to detect, it due to elevated

There has been several improvements done with cardiac pacemakers. One of the highlight was the nanostim leadless pacemaker. It is very small in size and is implanted inside the heart through a catheter. The small size and the lack of surgical pocket with leadless device will help the patient feel better and eliminates the worry of infections and lead failure. It is designed in such a way that it is completely retrievable so that during an implant procedure it can be repositioned easily. Implanting

Abstract Cardiac output is the amount of blood the heart pumps in 1 minute and depends on heart rate, contractility, preload, and afterload. Understanding the supply and the practical relevance of each of these four components is important in interpreting the values of cardiac output. Afterload is the intraventricular pressure sufficient to open the aortic valve allowing ejection of the ventricular contents, Or the load against which the ventricle contracts or otherwise stress

Cardiac health serves as a major indicator of the overall health and quality of life of an individual. Factors such as exercise, diet, emotions, and keeping an active lifestyle can impact cardiac health and are often examined in an effort to maintain effective cardiac function. Exercise plays a large role in maintaining cardiac function and is often used as the primary treatment for cardiac issues. Studies have shown that regular aerobic exercise has the ability to lower risks of many chronic

Synopsis: Recall of Cardiac Implants in the Last Decade: What Lesson Can We Learn? This paper analyse different cardiac implants recall reasons and different recall systems, based on an overview of the recalls of cardiac implant medical devices in the last decade. This study provides recommendations on how to avoid such recalls from a manufacturer perspective, as well as how to timely react to an adverse event from a post-surveillance system perspective. The problem statement is to determine recall

Module 5 CARDIAC PHYSIOLOGY Case No. 1 Melvin Rodriguez was admitted at the intensive care unit. On the first hospital day, he developed hypotension, BP of 70/40, cardiac rate of 100 beats per minute, rales all over lung fields, respiratory rate of 24 breaths per minute. Pertinent physical examination showed patient was dyspneic, distented neck vein. Patient was on left ventricular failure with pulmonary congestion. Questions 1. What is the Frank starling law of the heart? The Frank–Starling

INTRODUCTION Local cardiac preconditioning or postconditioning has been shown to have direct cardioprotective effects against myocardial ischemia and reperfusion (I/R) injury. Likewise, remote ischemic pre- or post-conditioning is a phenomenon whereby brief episodes of short periods of ischemia/reperfusion stimuli executed in distant tissues or organs may exert protective effects in the heart and render the myocardium more tolerant to a subsequent sustained episode of ischemia or reperfusion injury

Anatomy is one of the oldest branches of medicine, with historical records dating back at least as far as the third century BC . Cardiac anatomy has been a continually explored topic throughout this time, and there are still publications on new facets of cardiac anatomy being researched and reported today. One of the fundamental tenets of the study of anatomy has been the description of the structure based on the universal orientation, otherwise termed the anatomic position (Fig. 2.1 ). The anatomic

This work has been motivated by our wish to understand 336 and document dynamics that occur in the main hypothesized 337 anatomical substrates for some types of cardiac tachycardias 338 - the ring and isthmus geometries, Fig. 1. 339 In an annulus, there were relatively simple patterns of 340 excitation consisting of one or more waves traveling in a 341 clockwise or counterclockwise direction. Although patterns 342 with two or more circulating waves such as those shown in Figs. 2(a) (multimedia view)