p1 & 2 Unit 14- Assignment 1 ‘Physiological disorders, their nature, signs and symptoms’ Unit 14- assignment 2 ‘Diagnosis- how it is carried out’ Contents Coronary heart disease (CHD) 2 Signs and symptoms 2 Factors that can affect the development of the disorder 3 How is CHD diagnosed? 3 Treatments 4 Lifestyle changes that could be made 4 What medication can be used? 5 What types of surgery are used to treat CHD? 5 Recovering from CHD 6 Crohn’s disease 7 Signs & symptoms 7 Causes 7 Complication that can occur 8 Diagnosis 8 Treatments 8 Medication 8 Surgery 9 Bibliography 9 Coronary heart disease (CHD) Blockage of the coronary arteries by plaque may cause a heart attack. Coronary heart …show more content…
During an Echo the patient is asked to take their top off and lay on a bed. A small piece of equipment, called a transducer, is moved over the chest. A gel that works as a lubricant is put onto your skin to assist the transducer to move along the skin effortlessly, this will make sure that contact is kept at all times with the skin. A coronary angiography provides information about the hearts blood pressure and functioning. This procedure can identify whether the coronary arteries are blocked or narrowing. A tube/camera is passed through an artery in the groin or arm; it is guided using x-rays up to the heart. A coronary angiogram is a safe procedure, but there are some small side affect. You may feel a slightly strange sensation when the dye is put down the catheter, a small amount of bleeding when the catheter is removed, a bruise in your groin or arm. X-rays are used to guide tubes or cameras through the body. It is used to look at the heart, lungs, and chest walls. They can also be used to rule out any other conditions that might be causing the weaknesses. Blood tests such as cholesterol, cardiac enzyme and thyroid function testing are three blood tests that are used to diagnose a person with CHD. They are also used to rule out other conditions that may be similar to CHD symptoms. Radionuclide testing indicates how strongly the heart pumps and it shows the flow of blood in the heart. There is a small amount of
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other intense tests can be done to make the diagnosis much clearer such as Doppler echocardiogram, this uses sound waves to show the function of the right ventricle to measure the blood flow through the heart valves, and then calculate the systolic pulmonary artery pressure. There is also an X-ray, this is done on the chest. This can show any increase or decrease in size of the right ventricle and arteries. A simpler test such as the 6-minute walk test, this controls exercise patience level and blood oxygen saturation level during exercise. There is also a Pulmonary function test, this seeks for other lung conditions such as chronic obstructive pulmonary disease and idiopathic pulmonary fibrosis compared to others. Also there is a 'Polysomnogram or overnight oximetry', this monitors sleep apnea (results in low oxygen levels at night). Also a right heart catheterization, this measures various heart pressures ( inside the pulmonary arteries, coming from the left side of the heart), the rate at which the heart is able to pump blood, and finds any leaks between the right and left sides of the heart.
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field and radio wave energy to analyse the blood vessels. Most often used to detect
Ultrasound machines are generally considered as a safe imaging modality without any contraindications, because the patient will not be exposed to radiation or injected with toxic chemicals. Moreover, TUS procedures are bedside procedures. This means that the patients will not be moved to another room or transferred to another bed, which decrease the risk of moving critically ill patients. US machines also give the performing technologist the opportunity to exam the lower venous system to detect the main cause of PE, which is deep vein thrombosis (DVT) (Koenig, S. et al.
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• These procedures are used when stable symptoms persist despite maximal medical therapy, or when unstable symptoms fail to settle.
Endothelial dysfunction is a systemic process that can be evaluated in both coronary and peripheral circulation. In our days, the gold standard test to determine endothelial dysfunction consists of an invasive approach that assesses the endothelium of coronary artery during cardiac catheterization. However, this test is not innocuous and not suitable for bedside evaluation. Therefore, non-invasive techniques, such as FMD and PAT, have been developed.
For the pass this assignment will describe the investigations that are carried out to enable the diagnosis of these physiological disorders. For the merit this assignment will assess possible difficulties involved in the diagnosis from their signs and symptoms.
A series of blood test are usually administered with in a 24-hour period to not only verify that a patient has suffered a myocardial infarction, but to show the extent of death to the heart muscle. There are certain proteins that are discharged into the blood by dying cardiac tissue. These are referred to as cardiac enzymes. “These cardiac enzymes are creatine phosphokinase (CPK), special sub-fractions of CPK (specifically, the MB fraction of CPK), and troponin, and their levels can be measured in blood. These cardiac enzymes typically are elevated in the blood several hours after the onset of a heart attack.” (Daniel Lee Kulick, 2015).
Blood tests will be done to assess troponin I, troponin T, creatine kinase (CK) and myoglobin which are classified as cardiac serum markers (Cardiac Emergencies, n.d.).