Asystole Essays

Electricity is used for a multitude of things in our daily lives. It can light up our houses or even bring a dead individual back to life. The practice of resuscitating a person via electricity is known to us as defibrillation. Mary Shelley included a loose idea of defibrillation in her novel entitled Frankenstein. Although the defibrillator was introduced more than forty years following her death, Shelley’s interpretation is reasonably accurate. In the 1780s, a biologist named Galvani generated

Picture this: you’re sitting in a restaurant when you see a man a few tables down slump down in his seat. His wife across the table starts yelling for help, saying he’s unconscious, but no one around is able to properly save him. This is a case where cardiopulmonary resuscitation was needed, however, there wasn’t anyone who knew how to perform it. Learning CPR can enable you to save a life if a situation requires you to use it. CPR is needed when a person has stopped breathing and also, when the

According to Avery, O'Brien, Pierce, and Gazarian (2015), “in the United States, 359,400 people experience an out-of-hospital cardiac arrest each year, and less than 9.5% of those people survive” (p. 29). So if any survivors survive, chances of recovering fully is very slim. Therefore, there survivors’ expectation of returning to a normal life are limited due to the neurologic outcome. According to Deckard and Ebright (2011), only about 20% of cardiac arrest survivors who remained comatose have awakened

Emergency Interventions When treating a patient who has experienced or is currently in cardiac arrest, emergency care would follow Pediatric Advanced Life Support guidelines.34 If able during the resuscitation, a brief history, physical exam, and diagnostics should be done. As stated in PALS guidelines, amiodarone should be considered if a patient has arrhythmias unresponsive to defibrillation.11 Intractable arrhythmias are most commonly seen in patients with HCM. Though taking an extensive history

Did you know that over 360,000 cases of cardiac arrest happen every year and that number is only increasing? Some believe that if possible CPR (Cardiopulmonary resuscitation) should be used in any event involving cardiac arrest. Cardiac arrest is when your heart beat becomes very irregular and sped up until your heart eventually stops. If someone is performing CPR effectively then it will just about double the chance of survival in the patient suffering. I personally think that it should not be required

ABSTRACT Sudden cardiac arrest in the pediatric population is a rare occurrence, but it can be devastating. An understanding of the differential for the etiology of the cardiac arrest allows for more expedient and appropriate care and can lead to more favorable outcomes. Pediatric sudden cardiac arrest can occur with or without prodromal symptoms and may occur with or without exercise. The most common cause is arrhythmia that may be due to a channelopathy, cardiomyopathy, or myocarditis. After

Cardiac arrests/ heart attacks are extremely common. They can happen to anyone, anywhere, and at any time. Cardiopulmonary resuscitation more commonly known as CPR is an emergency treatment that consists of chest compressions and mouth-to-mouth breaths on a victim who has suffered a sudden cardiac arrest. CPR can be learned by anyone-and everyone should. CPR has been a literal life saver for centuries. CPR may seem modern, but it has been saving lives since the 1700s. Although mouth-to-mouth resuscitation

wife went outside and found him slumped over a snow mound. EMS reported they found him cyanotic (blue color of skin), without a pulse and not breathing. They started CPR, put a breathing tube in his windpipe, placed him on a monitor, which showed Asystole (no electrical activity of the heart) and brought him to our emergency department. I checked the breathing tube placement, checked the

What does life stand for? Paul Kalanithi explores this question in When Breath Becomes Air through various rhetorical devices. When it comes to figuring out the meaning of life and supporting his claims, however, Kalanithi’s most effective rhetorical strategy is deductive reasoning. The book is formatted to allow the reader to understand Kalanthi’s arguments through his experiences, rather than statistics. For example, Kalanithi writes, “Other romantic poems led me and my friends on various joyful

In January of 2000 I was sitting watching my step mom suffer through cancer. I remember seeing my mom sick in her bed \ at St.John's hospital in Springfield, Illinois. Her eyes droopy and tired, weak muscles, not consuming much. I could see the pain in her eyes as she slowly died likes the leaves in the fall. I sat there watching her. She was cold, sick, and ready to go home. Having unexplained fevers,night sweats the wheezing nose as she breaths in and out due to shortness of breath caused by the

MUHIMBILI UNIVERSITY OF HEALTH AND ALLIED SCIENCES SCHOOL OF NURSING TITLE: EFFECTIVENESS OF STRUCTURED TEACHING IN IMPROVING DETECTION AND MANAGEMENT OF LIFE THREATENING ARRHYTHMIAS AMONG NURSES WORKING IN CRITICAL CARE SETTINGS AT MUHIMBILI NATIONAL HOSPITAL DINNAH ISSA RUHWANYA (REG.NO. HD/MUH/T.197/2014) (MSc. Crit. Care & Trauma 1st year students) SUPERVISOR: Dr. EDITH TARIMO 2015. INTRODUCTION Dysrrhythmia or arrhythmia is an abnormal heart rhythm due to disturbance in heart automaticity

The last course of semester, senior electives. This last course with big responsibilities towards my professional life as this course give the opportunity to work as leader and take the things in border aspect and bring new change in myself as well as towards job responsibilities’ I learn many new things from it, that now I started to think in different way as before I don’t reflect my act or other unusual thing happened around me but this course enhance my leader qualities and also facilitate me

In early days prior to developing of a heart lung machine doctors could do nothing except to pray god for the survival of the patient. But after lot of work and research the first successful open heart surgery with the help of heart lung machine was performed by Dr John Gibbon Jr on 6th may 1953 by closing an atrial septal defect using a heart lung machine and a screen oxygenator. Since then there has been lot of advances with regard to the machinery and techniques used for cardiac surgeries which

Angina, Myocardial Infarction, and Cardiac Arrest Comparison and Contrast Hannah Bunce Fayetteville Technical Community College Angina, Myocardial Infarction, and Cardiac Arrest Comparison and Contrast Three of the most commonly occurring cardiac related events: angina, myocardial infarction, and cardiac arrest, are commonly confused. However, there is a huge difference between each of them. It is crucial to be informed of each of these cardiovascular emergencies and to be able to