If a resident is discharged from the hospital with Heart Failure, Pneumonia, Acute Myocardial Infarction (Heart Attack) And goes back to the hospital for ANY reason within 30 days, that increases the hospital’s readmission rate and will give them a payment penalty. (Readmissions Reduction Program) In
Rapid and irregular heart rates may be perceived as palpitations, exercise intolerance, and occasionally produce angina (if the rate is faster and puts the heart under strain) and congestive symptoms of shortness of breath or edema. Sometimes the arrhythmia will be identified only with the onset of a stroke or a transient ischemic attack (TIA). It is not uncommon for a patient to first become aware of AF from a routine physical examination or ECG, as it may be asymptomatic in many cases. [1] As most cases of atrial fibrillation are secondary to other medical problems, the presence of chest pain or angina, symptoms of hyperthyroidism (an overactive thyroid gland) such as weight loss and diarrhea, and symptoms suggestive of lung disease would indicate an underlying cause. A history of stroke or TIA, as well as hypertension (high blood pressure), diabetes, heart failure and rheumatic fever, may indicate whether someone with AF is at a higher risk of
A heart attack may be a sudden episode. However, the condition that leads to an attack, coronary heart disease, develops over a long period of time. Often, the symptoms of heart attack are confused with those of indigestion. Signs of a heart attack include uncomfortable pressure, fullness, squeezing or pain in the center of the chest, and sometimes in the arms and shoulders, lasting for two minutes or more. Sweating, dizziness, nausea, fainting, or shortness of breath may also occur.
The Article talks about what the criteria for inducing hypothermia in patients that are post cardiac arrest. Patients should have their ROSC evaluated. The article talks about how PEA, asystole arrest or in hospital arrest has not been studied but may be applied. Some Patients are excluded because of secondary diagnosis. The goal of hypothermia in patients is to reach a core body temperature of 33 degrees Celsius to 34 degrees Celsius in 6 to 8 hours.
CHF is a chronic, long-term condition although at times it can develop quite suddenly. When a heart’s muscles can no longer efficiently pump blood out of the heart wall, systolic heart failure occurs, and when blood is no longer able to fill the heart’s cavity due to stiffened heart muscles, diastolic heart failure follows. When the heart is no longer able to eject blood outside of the heart wall, blood is prevented from entering as well. This, in turn, will lead to fluid build-up in the lungs, liver, GI (gastrointestinal) tract, arms, and legs, and as a result, a lack of oxygen and nutrition to these organs and body parts ensues. Although CHF can develop on its own, other heart problems or conditions such as Congenital Heart Disease, hearts attacks, and arrhythmias (abnormal heart beats) can lead to CHF (Hunt).
Chronic means that the signs and symptoms will more likely last longer than six weeks and often for many years. In lupus, something goes wrong with your immune system, which is the part of the body that fights off viruses, bacteria, and germs. Normally our immune system produces
Gerontology Disease Process Paper 09/10/2012 CONGESTIVE HEART FAILURE Etiology Congestive heart failure (CHF) is the hearts inability to pump sufficient oxygen rich blood to the body’s tissues. CHF can be acute or chronic, left sided, right sided or both. There are several causes, diseases such as MI, hypertension, CAD or kidney failure valve disorders, inflammatory conditions, water intoxication and side effects from medications such as corticosteroids. CHF is more common among the elderly community, also is the leading cause of hospitalization and re-hospitalization among the elderly. Over three million individuals have been diagnosed with CHF.
This is when their symptoms fail to recover and gradually worsen. An individual whose symptoms gradually deteriorate from the onset of their diagnosis are said to have the primary progressive form of multiple sclerosis. The most serious form of the disease is known as malignant multiple sclerosis. This is an extremely rare form which can lead to death within a few months. Some people may have a complete recovery from their symptoms and do not have further attacks for a number of years.
Stage 2 (last one to six weeks): after one to two weeks, some people develop a more serious version which causes severe coughing episodes (which can cause vomiting, cracked ribs, and hernia). Stage 3 (last two to three weeks): coughing spasms gradually decrease in intensity and usually disappear after two to three weeks (March). Pertussis can cause lung infection (pneumonia), sudden, uncontrollable movements (seizures) and even death (Wyeth). Infants who have whooping cough can cough violently and quickly – again and again – until all the air is out of their lungs (GSK, 2). Arthur Allen states the symptoms
Once there he went on to achieve much success. Writing such hit’s as The Getto and the all time favorite This Christmas. But there way’s all something strange about Mr. Hathaway. He would zone out have paranoid’s thought he the government was trying to tap into his brain. Upon his wife request he went to see a doctor and was diagnose with Paranoid Schizophrenia.