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...
Category: Critical Care and Emergency Nursing
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...
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...
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...
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...
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 hepatocyte...
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,...
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 arteries supplying the...
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...
Code Blue: Defibrillation
Code blue: Defibrillation
Defibrillation is defined as the process wherein an electric shock is sent to the heart to stop an arrhythmia with the use of an electrical device called a defibrillator, resulting in the return of a productive heart rhythm.
Defibrillation is often used in emergency cases for the purpose of correcting life-threatening arrhythmias such as countering the onset of ventricular fibrillation or pulseless ventricular tachycardia, which is a common cause of/ and cardiac arrest.
