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...
View ArticleAortic 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...
View ArticleCardiomyopathy
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....
View ArticleSyndrome 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....
View ArticleEndotracheal 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,...
View ArticleCode 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...
View ArticleEnd 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...
View ArticleArteriovenous 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...
View ArticleLifeline: 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...
View ArticleHepatic 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...
View ArticleCan 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...
View ArticleStop 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...
View ArticleFirst 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...
View ArticleNursing 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...
View ArticleThings 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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