Defibrillation 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

You should check a person if you think that he or she has suffered cardiac arrest. If you find a person unconscious, or see him or her collapse, then you will need to check to see if he or she is responsive. Shake the person and shout to make sure that he or she is not sleeping. Pinch an infant or young child to try to wake him or her up. You should call 911 or have someone else call it. If there is another person present, then one of you can call 911 while the other one administers CPR. Sudden

The AHA is a national voluntary health agency that promotes healthier living and provides the knowledge of cardiopulmonary resuscitation (CPR) through their program. The American Heart Association’s mission is: “Building healthier lives, free of cardiovascular disease, and stroke”. Because CPR is being taught ineffectively by the curriculum that AHA provides, it does not fulfill the AHA’s mission statement. CPR would be effective if the CPR program under AHA discussed about cardiovascular disease

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

Use an AED as soon as it arrives. CPR alone cannot fully resuscitate a person in SCA. It does nothing to restore normal heart rhythm, it only helps circulate oxygenated blood to the heart and brain. CPR must be followed within minutes by early defibrillation. When the AED arrives, turn it on and it will give you step-by-step instructions on how to use it. • Attach the AED electrode pads to the person 's chest. Place one pad to the upper right area of the person 's chest, and the other to the lower

from situation to situations. It is a collection of emergency drugs and equipments that can be moved from one place to another and have readily available for resuscitative effort. It contains medications as well as the compulsory equipment for defibrillation, intubation, intravenous medication, and passage of central lines. (Farlex 2012) The main use of resuscitation trolley is to manage different types of emergencies in health care units and the management of cardio pulmonary resuscitation (CPR)

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 is difficult in the emergency setting, questions about history of present illness, prior history of chest pain, shortness of breath and/or

life support is a set of life saving protocol and skills that extend basic life support to further support the circulation and provide an open-air way and adequate ventilation. It includes tracheal intubation rapid sequence induction, cardiac defibrillation, transcutaneous pacing, intravenous cannulation, advance medication administration, advanced cardiac life support, pediatrics advance life support and pre-hospital trauma life support [Dallas, Jams Wann,2003] (1). Advance cardiac life support

This is because, as is demonstrated by (ACLS, 2015), Asystole is not treatable via the universally-accepted method of defibrillation and as such is more complicated to manage. Before continuing, it is important to identify the characteristics of Asystole. Asystole is a life-threatening heart rhythm characterized by an absence of all electrical activity and cardiac output. It

ARRHYTHMIA Description Cardiac arrhythmia, also known as cardiac dysrhythmia or irregular heartbeat, is a group of conditions in which the heartbeat is irregular, too fast, or too slow. Arrhythmias are due to problems with the electrical conduction system of the heart. The most common forms of arrhythmia observed is either, tachycardia (A heartbeat that is too fast - above 100 beats per minute in adults) or bradycardia (A heartbeat that is too slow - below 60 beats per minute). While most types

Caffeine is a central nervous stimulant that is in coffee beans, cocoa beans, and in tea leaves. In very large proportions, caffeine can be toxic. In large doses it can result into vomiting, convulsions, arrhythmia (a quivering heart), tachycardia, coma, and even death (Kerrigan & Tania, 2005). A person can have up to 400 milligrams of caffeine a day for adults. That is roughly about four cups of brewed coffee, 10 cans of cola or two “energy shot” drinks. Adolescents should limit themselves to 100

Over the last ten years of working within the health care sector I’ve worked closely with mental health nurses, listening to their personal experiences in a wide variety of settings. Extensive research, work experience and personal experiences of mental health issues such as my son’s recent diagnosis of Autistic Spectrum Disorder has inspired me to pursue a mental health nursing qualification. Mental health nursing promotes and highlights relevant skills that I have acquired over the years that are

machine that delivers an electrical shock to cancel any irregular heart beat (arrhythmia), in an effort get the normal heart beating to re-establish itself. Please ensure that a trained person is there to apply the AED. If the person responds to defibrillation, turn them onto their side and tilt their head to maintain their airway. evaluate the patient’s airway. Remember, if the patient is alert and talking, the airway is open. For a patient who is unresponsive, make sure that he or she is in a supine

Swells and Ripples The pebble was small and squarish, rubbed like ocean glass– perhaps thousands of miles far away from home, possibly even from a cove just around the bend from the limestone coast. The only person whom the pebble was in any way special to was Alex Dunn, and that was only due to the fact he’d kept the pebble within his right-side pants pocket for nearly two years. Alex held the stone between his fingers, only to tilt it to lay flat against the ridges of his palm, brushing his

Introduction: For this cycle, Cycle three. I learned a lot. I learned about automated external defibrillator (AED) which is a lightweight, portable device that delivers an electric shock through the chest to the heart. The shock can stop an irregular heart rhythm and allow a normal rhythm to resume following sudden cardiac arrest. Sudden cardiac arrest is an abrupt loss of heart function. If it’s not treated within minutes, it quickly leads to death. Most sudden cardiac arrests result from ventricular

Rationale: This screenplay is written for a film called Elimination. It is inspired by Romeo and Juliet, which is written by William Shakespeare. This screenplay overlaps several genres, including mystery, thriller, and consists of mild romance. I chose to combine mystery and thriller together, as they match very well, prompting the audience to use their imagination, also providing surprises from time to time, so that the audience will not lose interest. This film revolves around Romeo and Juliet

Technology plays a very vital role in health care system and this system is persistently going through modifications in which application of technology covers important element Technology, as defined by Mirriam-Webster (2012) is the “practical application of knowledge especially in a particular area; a capability given by the practical application of knowledge; a manner of accomplishing a task especially using technical processes, methods; the specialized aspects of a particular field of endeavor

Despite extensive research and evidence demonstrating benefits to having family at the bedside during resuscitation efforts, many practitioners don’t practice this. Several reasons have been researched and stated for why this concept of allowing the family to the bedside isn’t always performed which include: the added stress on the health team because of the presence of family, potential and/or actual disruption from family members, and it removes a team member from the resuscitation efforts. Whenever

The case study that I chose was from Nursing Ethics Journal is titled, The twins: a case study in ethical deliberation. This case presents a nurses perspective about nine year old, Roman Catholic, Hispanic twins, who survived a very difficult preterm birth and were in a persistent vegetative state since childbirth. The parents took care of the twins along with their four other children, but the growing demand of the twins was starting to take a toll on the parents, so they decided to place the twins

emphasis on continuous un interrupted chest compression, and less emphasis on air way and breathing, which means chest compression, airway and breathing (CAB) a combined with advanced drug administration, pressure ventilation and cardiac defibrillation [AHA,2010] (2). If advanced life