Essays on Stemi

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Dr. S P. A., a 56 year old Italian male that identifies with the Italian culture with no significant past medical history presents to the emergency department with the chief complaint of recurrent chest burning. P.A. says his wife believes that he is showing symptoms of having GERD but he has never been diagnosed. P.A states that “the chest burning and discomfort began five days ago and just got progressively worse despite his self medicating with TUMS” he presented to the emergency department on 05-31-16 and felt “some improvement” after a GI cocktail was administered. One set of biomarkers ...

Acute coronary syndrome is an umbrella term for a group of clinical symptoms indicative of acute myocardial ischemia. These conditions include non-ST-segment elevation myocardial ischemia (NSTEMI), unstable angina, and ST-segment elevation myocardial infarction (STEMI). These conditions are high-risk manifestations of atherosclerosis in the coronary artery and significant causes of utilization of emergency services and hospitalization (Kumar and Cannon, 2009). STEMI causes 30% of all acute coronary syndromes in Australia (Harper and Lefkovits, 2010). This paper will describe the expected presentation, pathophysiology, ECG findings, pre-hospital management, and initial 24-hour management of STEMI in hospitals settings. These aspects will be described ...

Following the American Psychological Association's Guidelines

OTHER 2 Lt. Governor Spencer J. Cox-Utah and Emergency Response Lt. Go Cox, the Vice-president of a small telecommunications company, addressed some of the communications-related obstacles as well as problems with the management of volunteers, which needed to be overcome in Sanpete County after the fire at Woodhallow. He was able to help open communications lines for emergency responders. Furthermore, he pointed out the problem that community leaders and emergency responders have had with failing to use resources or "assets at their fingertips" without knowing who would incur a cost. He also mentioned social media's reach to the community-at-large, ...

When a patient presents with ischemic chest pain, the 12-lead ECG is almost the first diagnostic test the patient has to undergo(Beebe & Myers, 2010).Every paramedic faces situations where he/she has to deal with such patients. If an accurate 12-lead ECG is obtained within 10 minutes of a ST segment elevated Myocardial infarction patient’s arrival in hospital, there is a greater chance of survival of the patient(Drew et al., 2004). 40% of patients with myocardial ischemia are initially cared for by Emergency Medical Technicians(EMTs) and transported to specialized STEMI centers by Emergency Medical Services(EMS)(Brooks, Allan, & Welsford, ...

Introduction

According to the American hHeart aAssociation, heart attack or myocardial infarction (MI), is when the heart occurs when one or more of the vessels (coronary arteries) that supply blood to the heart get (Coronary arteries) closedobstructed, and the blood is unable tocan’t reach the heart muscle, causing which cause the muscle to maldysfunction function (AHA, 2007). There are two major risk factors that can cause a patient have two risk factors to cause heart attack; which they are high serum cholesterol level represented also known as as hyperlipidemia and high blood pressure represented also known as hypertension. The Heartheart ...

Literature Review

Physicians always encounter innumerable number of patients with chest pains every day. The cause of these chest pains cannot always be pinpointed to a single health factor. However, veritably a good percentage of these chest pain cases are traced to a wide range of heart diseases. Acute Coronary Syndrome is one such heart disease that has been found to be a possible causation of the chest pains that are incessantly encountered by physicians. Commonly abbreviated as ACS, Acute Coronary Syndrome results in the blockage of some parts or the heart’s entire coronary arteries.

Definition

Acute Coronary Syndrome (ACS) is a cardiac condition with an ...