Cardiology is one of the many professions in the medical field. It is also a very important field. Many people in the world are having more and more issues, including cardiovascular diseases. I’m interested because when we were in seventh grade, we studied the human body. I was best at the heart and was also the most interested in the heart. Seventh grade isn’t nearly as hard and complex as cardiology is, but it gave me an interest in cardiology. Another reason I’m interested is because my grandma
of heart defects at an even younger age is emerging. According to the CDC about one third of the United States children are either overweight or obese. This interest in obesity as a social issue is what inspired me to pursue a career in pediatric cardiology. The way my personality type is wired seems to be indicative of a position in which I can grow as well as prosper. In addition, I believe that being able to identify a disease within a person at a young age and follow them in their treatment modalities
of catheterization to the interventional era of development of surgeries, drugs, imaging, and care, the history of invasive and interventional cardiology is a field of modern medicine that has stepped up to another level, transformed the way medicine is utilized, and ultimately, changed the way America has saved lives. Invasive and interventional cardiology is the study of a group of methods in which diagnostic testing and non-surgical interventional treatments are used for treating patients who suffer
Analysis of Cardiology Case Study and Plan of Care Subjective Data The patient is a fifty-two-year-old male of Irish American descent with initials A.B. who presents to the clinic for a follow-up visit to discuss key risk factors following an admission to the hospital where he underwent cardiac catheterization and the placement of a stent. Chief Complaint (CC) A.B. presented to the emergency department (ED) complaining of severe substernal chest pain that lasted for four hours and that he described
home, I realized the depth of my interest in cardiology. I found pleasure and interest in all the pediatric cardiology rotations but interventional cardiology specially captivated me. However, back home there was nor training opportunity in pediatric cardiology neither in interventional pediatric cardiology. Therefore, I decided to pursue second pediatric residency training in the USA to allow me the opportunity for further training in pediatric cardiology and eventually congenital cardiac intervention
Find A Cardiologist directory to locate a cardiologist in your area. What is an F.A.C.C.? An F.A.C.C. is a Fellow of the American College of Cardiology. Based on their outstanding credentials, achievements, and community contribution to cardiovascular medicine, physicians who are elected to fellowship can use F.A.C.C., Fellow of the American College of Cardiology, as a professional designation. The strongest evidence of achievement for those who earn the F.A.C.C insignia comes from
of the human body. November 15, 2014, was the day the word medicine had given me a new goal in life. Although nursing is precise and neurology is challenging, as an aspiring pre-med student I have dedicated my life to learning the intricacies of cardiology. Since my sophomore year in high school I had researched nonstop on what type of medical career I had wanted. My first interest landed in the nursing field, it had intrigued me with the memorable relationships that were always made between patients
During my cardiology fellowship, I found myself deeply involved in the care of a 58 year old gentleman who was admitted with a very late presentation of a STEMI. The patient was found to have an ejection fraction of 20 % and he developed multiple episodes of ventricular tachycardia and fibrillation for which he was defibrillated and started on amiodarone and lidocaine. Confident of what current medicine had to offer, we tried everything but the patient became progressively worse. His condition however
the rest of your body as efficiently, making you feel tired and out of breath. History of Mitral Valve Prolapse The condition was first described by John Brereton Barlow in 1966, a world renowned South African cardiologist. He was Professor of Cardiology in the research unit at Johannesburg Hospital where he carried out studies on cardiac disorders discovering the cause of the mitral valve disorder, also referred to as Barlow's Syndrome (Tsung O, Cheng 5 March 1995). What is Mitral Valve Prolapse
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The impact of educational in-home videos on self-care behaviors in patients with heart failure has not been well studied. Veroff and colleagues (2012) conducted a study that included a Living with Heart Failure DVD and accompanying booklet to assess whether or not in-home videos would increase self-care in patients with heart failure. It was concluded that the DVD and booklet had a positive impact on patient’s self-care behaviors. Patient educational aids in DVD format are a more economical form
I shadowed a cardiologist named Arnulfo Granado. He uses echocardiograms to get an imaging of the heart. He receive patients with arrhythmia, atrophibulation, risk of heart attack, and any other heart threatening conditions. According to Mr. Granado, his job is fairly easy—he mostly have to know how to use TTE and TEE echocardiograms to take a good pictures of the patients’ hearts and measure the size of the valve, right atrium, etc. His work was very interesting to hear since looking at all kinds
Once becoming a cardiologist the extended odyssey begins. In a typical day cardiologists can engage in a multitude of activities. Most cardiologists spend their typical days diagnosing patients, interacting with them and engaging in different procedures to help the heart. What they can also do is, they can review patients charts and from that they determine which steps need to be taken. For instance, cardiologists can insert pacemakers which are artificial devices that are placed near the heart inside
According to Abbott, “Mitral Regurgitation is the most common type of heart valve insufficiency in the United States.” The prefered treatment for mitral regurg is with open heart surgery to replace the insufficient valve. However for many patients, surgery is not an option due to their age, and underlying health conditions. Doctors started to look for a new way to help treat patients with mitral regurg. One that could be performed non invasively, without surgery. Thus the mitraclip was born! To
“Ebstein’s anomaly is a rare cardiac anomaly that occurs in approximately one in 20,000 live births and accounts for less than 1% of all congenital heart disease (Ebstein’s anomaly in adults)”. The goal of this paper is to examine Ebstein’s Anomaly - to understand what it is, how it affects the heart, possible presenting symptoms, and other possible complications associated with this anomaly. Diagnosis of this anomaly is key in treating patients, thus echocardiographic as well as other test modalities
Creating a Flow Chart: Bradycardia Today’s healthcare environment is facing tremendous challenges in order to ensure safe, quality care, while simultaneously providing affordable care that is still able to produce revenue. With continuously escalating healthcare demands emerging from the population, healthcare providers and professionals have no choice but to accept these challenges and put forth the best possible approach to meet these demands involving patient care. New ideas for managing tests
Atrioventricular node reentrant tachycardia Other than atrial fibrillation and atrial flutter, this is the most common supraventricular tachycardia seen in practice.11 A large minority of adults (up to 40% in some cohorts) are born with 2 pathways that can conduct electricity in the AV node, rather than 1. Under the right conditions, AV node reentrant tachycardia (AVNRT) can be initiated by a premature atrial or ventricular beat. If the 2 pathways are able to sustain a stable circuit, the atrium
Commotio cordis occurs after a blunt, non-penetrating blow to the precordial area of the chest wall that results in the induction of an often fatal ventricular fibrillation in a heart that does not have a preexisting structural or electrophysiological cardiovascular disease (Yabek, 2011). The blow is often perceived to be irrelevant, yet can cause a debilitating injury or even death. Death may be sudden or after a brief period of lucidity with purposeful movement prior to collapse (Yabek, 2011).