Cardiac Arrest is a sudden stop of heart function in a person who may or may not be diagnosed with heart disease. Death occurs instantly or shortly after symptoms appear. Cardiac Arrest happen when the heart’s electrical system malfunctions. The abnormal or irregular heart rhythms called arrhythmias. Ventricular fibrillation is a arrhythmia in cardiac arrest. It’s the heart’s lower chambers suddenly start beating chaotically and don’t pump blood. Cardiopulmonary resuscitation (CPR) and a defibrillator
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Background Hypothermia (hi-po-THUR-me-uh) is a medical emergency that occurs when your body loses heat faster than it can produce heat, causing a dangerously low body temperature. The term “hypo” refers to less, and “thermia” refers to temperature. Normally, the core body temperature is 98.6 degrees F. Hypothermia occurs as your body temperature passes below 95 F (35 C). When your body temperature drops, your heart, nervous system and other organs cannot work correctly. Left untreated, hypothermia
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PULSELESS ELECTRICAL ACTIVITY Pulseless electrical activity refers to a cardiac arrest situation in which a heart rhythm is observed on the electrocardiogram that should be producing a pulse but is not. Under normal circumstances, electrical activation of the cardiac muscle cells precedes mechanical contraction of the heart. Pulseless electrical activity is also referred to as PEA or, by the older term, electromechanical dissociation. Pulseless electrical activity is the clinical condition characterized
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Several Americans won’t do CPR because they don’t know how or they are afraid of hurting someone. Hands only CPR could give them the courage to help the injured person. Using hands only CPR would be as effective as conventional CPR for sudden cardiac arrest at home, in public or at work. It can double or maybe triple a person’s chance of survival. There are only two steps to using hands only CPR. Call 911 and push hard and fast in the center of the chest. It is very important that you first call
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Kimberly Johnson-Lockett HCA322: Health Care Ethics & Medical Law Instructor: Eugene Elliott March 4, 2014 Do Not Resuscitate (DNR) orders are medical directives to withhold efforts to revive a patient who has a cardiac or respiratory arrest (Lee, M. B., M.D. 2012). DNR laws started in the late 70s because of the extensive practice of cardiopulmonary resuscitation (CPR). An unending discussion about DNR has involved the level to which patients or their surrogate have to make the decision
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lightweight portable device that delivers an electric shock to the heart after sudden cardiac arrest (SCA). The shock is needed to reset the heart after SCA. Cardiac arrest is a condition wherein the heart produces irregular rhythm and then stops beating. This is a medical emergency as the blood flow to the brain and internal organs will cease. If no immediate care is done for individuals having sudden cardiac arrest, the chances of survival will decrease since the condition may result in death within minutes
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Background | Since medical law and ethics are often interrelated, you need to have a clear understanding of both in order to protect yourselves, your employer, and the patient. Even though only a small number of malpractice cases actually end up in court, it is nevertheless important for you to understand how the law impacts physicians and employers. In this assignment, you will examine two scenarios surrounding healthcare personnel in their work environment. | Part 1: Legal Responsibility
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in this case? Yes the Prudent Person Rule does apply in this case. It applies because the young girl came in for a simple routine surgery and was fine. Then shortly after the routine surgery she started to bleed profusely then went into cardiac arrest and was determined to be brain dead afterwards. 3. In your opinion, could this tragedy have been prevented? If so, how? In my opinion there was something wrong with this young girl to where she needed surgery. But even though the outcome is very
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CPR Alternate Assessment Can you save a life? In an emergency, when every second is critical, would you know what to do? According to recent statistics sudden cardiac arrest is rapidly becoming the leading cause of death in America. Once the heart ceases to function, a healthy human brain may survive without oxygen for up to 4 minutes without suffering any permanent damage. Unfortunately, a typical EMS response may take 6, 8 or even 10 minutes. Performing CPR dramatically increases the
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DNR VS AND Do not resuscitate (DNR) or no code, is a legal order written either in the hospital or on a legal form to withhold cardiopulmonary resuscitation (CPR) or advanced cardiac life support (ACLS), in respect of the wishes of a patient in case their heart were to stop or they were to stop breathing. “No code” is a reference to the use of “code” as jargon for “calling in a Code Blue” to alert a hospital’s resuscitation team. The DNR request is usually made by the patient or health care power
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