Caring for a Patient with Isolated Systolic Hypertention

the preoperative patient with a systolic murmur

conclusions with a thorough preoperative assessment incorporating focused echocardiography, anaesthetists are in the unique position to enhance their role as perioperative physicians and influence short and long term outcomes of their patients. context patients with undifferentiated systolic murmurs present commonly during the perioperative period. traditional bedside assessment and auscultatio...

Caring for the Alzheimer's patient.

The Preoperative Patient With a Systolic Murmur.

CONTEXT Patients with undifferentiated systolic murmurs present commonly during the perioperative period. Traditional bedside assessment and auscultation has not changed significantly in almost 200 years and relies on interpreting indirect acoustic events as a means of evaluating underlying cardiac pathology. This is notoriously inaccurate, even in expert cardiology hands, since many different ...

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Caring for the patient with an intestinal obstruction.

This article aims to increase your understanding of issues associated with intestinal obstruction, including the different causes of small bowel and large bowel obstruction, the treatments available and the best nursing management of patients with this condition.

Isolated systolIc hypertensIon

Until the 1980’s the diastolic blood pressure (DBP) was assumed to be the most relevant hemodynamic parameter for prognosis of hypertensive patients. Elevated systolic pressure was considered as an inevitable consequence of aging and many physicians were reluctant to pay credence to the need for therapy of elevated systolic blood pressure. There was a radical change in thinking based on epidemi...