Cardiac

This past Friday at the Cardiac Catheterization Lab my mentor was not there but I still got to do everything that I enjoy doing, like watching procedures and talking to the doctors, nurses, and staff. When I arrived I knew my mentor would not be there so I had asked another one of the ladies in the office if there were any surgeries that were going on for me to watch. After I was given scrubs to change into I was able to go into where the surgeries are happening. I went into the control room that

be beneficial to a person with CAD because they can teach you more about risk factors and how you can improve your heart health. There are many diagnostic tests that can be used to confirm if you have CAD, one major test would be a Cardiac Catheterization. A Cardiac Catheterization is a procedure that can detect many other heart diseases but in this case it is a major test that can be used to detect CAD. This procedure injects a dye through a catheter which is placed in an artery (usually

Myocardial infarction takes so many lives every year in all around the world. Therefore, Cardiac surgeries are playing a very important role in saving the human lives. Different types of open heart surgeries have been performed in the United State. The two main ones are Sternotomy and Minimally invasive open heart surgery. As a registered nurse, I worked in cardiovascular unit for over two years. Working with minimally invasive surgeon provided me an opportunity to compare the recovery length for

Cardiac output is the amount of blood pumped by each ventricle in one minute. It is the volume of blood ejected from the left or right ventricle into the aorta or pulmonary trunk per minute. Cardiac output depends on the heart rate and stroke volume; it can be represented by the formula below. Cardiac Output (ml/min) = Heart Rate (beats/min) X Stroke Volume (ml/beat) = 70 (beats/min) x 70 (ml/beat) = 4900 ml/min Heart rate is the number of times the heart beats in one minute, averaging

As part of the hypertrophic response, cardiac fibroblasts undergo a phenotypic change, assuming a myofibroblast con- figuration. Stimulated myofibroblasts proliferate and increase production of extracellular matrix proteins, including fibronectin, laminin, and collagen I and III. This results in progressive fibrosis. Many of these processes are controlled by integrins, which are cell surface receptors that mediate the cell’s ability to interact with its environment ( 12 ). One such integrin, called

This Friday at the Cardiac Catheterization Lab was a very productive and eventful one. First thing in the morning I went to watch a procedure, or “case” as they call it that the hospital since there were not any patient files ready to be filed away. When I went to go to the control room with the surgery happening, the patient was already on the surgery bed and the nurses and tech people (I do not know their professional name or title) were preparing the equipment that they needed to perform the surgery

A heart is made from Cardiac muscles which are only found in the heart, this muscles share similarities with skeletal muscles, but they also have special properties which include automaticity and unlike skeletal muscles, the heart does not have to be stimulated by nerves to contract. This is because action potentials begin spontaneously in the pacemaker region in the right atrium and spread through the ventricles in an automatic, rhythmic cycle in the heart all cardia cells can depolarise and repolarise

Keystone Now Offers Insertable Cardiac Monitors (ICM) Crozer Keystone now offers patients Insertable Cardiac Monitors (ICM). The insertable cardiac monitor is a small device, smaller than a key, that constantly monitors your heart rhythms and records them automatically as well as manually by using a hand held patient assistant. It is programmed to monitor the heart’s activity in the form of an electrocardiogram (ECG) also, abnormal heart rhythms. An insertable cardiac monitor is the gold standard

Cardiac Output (CO) is defined as the volume of blood pumped out by the heart, specifically by the left and right ventricle, per unit time (usually in 1 minute). It is the product of Stroke Volume (SV) and Heart Rate (HR) [1]. CO = SV x HR Jessica’s pre-exercise cardiac output can therefore be calculated as 70ml x 70bpm = 4900ml/min or 4.9L/min, whilst her post-exercise cardiac output is 110ml x 130bpm = 14.3L/min. In an adult at rest, the average cardiac output is 4.9L/min for a human female and

Indications for pediatric cardiac catheterization have undergone significant changes over the last 3 decades. In early 1980s, with emerging of none to less invasive diagnostic modalities and more specifically with current echocardiography diagnostic ability, cardiac catheterization is no longer considered as a mainstay diagnostic tool for most cardiac anomalies except in rare occasions or when accurate hemodynamics measurements are needed. But with dramatic improve in the quality and availability