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Cardiac Tamponade

Cardiac tamponade is the accumulation of excess fluid within the pericardial space, resulting in impaired cardiac filling, reduction in stroke volume, and epicardial coronary artery compression with...

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Aortic Dissection

Aortic dissection involves a tear in the medical layer of the aortic wall, causing blood to extravasate into the media and thus compromising blood flow to the brain, heart, and other organs. Usually...

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Cardiomyopathy

Cardiomyopathy is a dysfunction of cardiac muscle that can be associated with coronary artery disease, hypertension, cardiotoxic agents, valvular disorders, and vascular or pulmonary diseases....

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Syndrome Of Inappropriate Antidiuretic Hormone (SIADH)

Is a condition that results from failure in the negative feedback mechanism that regulates inhibition and secretion of ADH. It produces excess ADH, resulting hypothermia and hypoosmolality of serum....

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Endotracheal Intubation

When it comes to emergency and life threatening situations, there are only three letters to be remembered. ABC’s. Nope, not the simple ABC we learned in preschool. It actually stands for airway,...

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Code Blue: Defibrillation

You’re getting on with your duty as usual. Everything just started out right, conscious patient, not-so busy work environment. This ought to be a stress-free duty. You’re just beginning to prepare your...

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End Point: Post Mortem Care

Nurse Theo stands there observing the scene around him. His fellow nurses busy cleaning things up in the area, folks weeping in the corner, the doctor holding an ECG paper of flat tracings and a pale...

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Arteriovenous Malformation (AVM)

Arteriovenous are malformation of the cerebrovascular system in which tortuous, tangled, and malformed arterial channels drain directly into the venous system without an intervening capillary bed. The...

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Lifeline: Cardiac Monitoring

I stare into the embossed letters above the door. ICU-CCU Complex. So this is where critical patients are attended to. As part of my training as a newly registered nurse, I get to be assigned to...

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Hepatic Failure

Hepatic failure can result from acute liver injury, causing acute liver failure (ALF) or fulminant hepatic failure (FHF), or progressive chronic liver disease such as cirrhosis. An alteration in...

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Can you hear me: Breath Sounds

You look back to when you were kid watching a television show with a doctor checking up on a patient using his all-time trusted stethoscope. You see him concentrating and listening as he asks the...

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Stop Bleeding Fast: Trauma Foam

Just like a stream, blood flows freely from Jenny’s wound. She cut herself while trying to slice some vegetables for cooking. She curses herself for being clumsy and for accidentally making a cut in...

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First Aid Information for Heatstroke

It’s almost summer time and while there are tons of fun activities waiting for us this summer, there are some those things that we aren’t exactly too excited for, the scorching heat, for example, and...

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Nursing Management of Patients in Traction

Lea is up all night studying in advance for Monday’s lecture. Tonight, she is reading all about traction. While staring at pictures of patients in traction, she just couldn’t help but be curious of...

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Things You Need To Know About CPR

Lydia is feeling anxious. Tomorrow, she will be taking a CPR class and she still has no idea on what will happen. Oh yes, she has seen people do CPR in movies and on television, she had seen nurses...

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