Endocard Study guides, Class notes & Summaries

CARDIOVASCULAR ACUTE/SUBACUTE BACTERIAL ENDOCARDITIS A bacterial infection of the endocardium Duke criteria ◆ Positive blood culture for infective endocarditis (IE) ● Isolation of typical organisms from two positive cultures of blood samples drawn > 12 hours apart, or all of three or a majority of four separate cultures of blood ● Typical organisms include viridans strep, S. bovis, HACEK (H. aphrophilus, A. actinomycetemcomitans, C. hominis, E. corrodens, and K. kingae), or ...

The document includes all the things about Heart failure and infective endocarditis that to be written for exam as an essay. Including topics like clinical features,investigations,diagnosis,management and prophylaxis

Samenvatting van het ademhalingsstelsel waar onder andere het volgende in voor komt: AP, de pleura, endocard myocard en pericard, shock, decompensatie cordis, en nog veel meer.

Exam based handwritten notes on infective endocarditis

This provides a summary of Endocarditis as a condition including the background, symptoms and signs/clinical presentation, investigations to diagnose the condition and management plan.

Endocarditis bacteriana aguda y subaguda, factores de virulencia, fisiopatologia, manifestaciones clínicas, diagnóstico, criterios de Duke.

NR509 Week 4 { 3 SETS OF EXAMS} Updated 2022/NR509 Week 4 { 3 SETS OF EXAMS} Updated 2022/he sac that surrounds and protects the heart is called the: a. Pericardium. b. Myocardium. c. Endocardium. d. Pleural space. ANS- a. Pericardium

List the components of the cardio vascular system - correct answer Heart, blood vessels, blood Contrast the pulmonary and systemic circuits Describe the location, size, shape and position of the heart - correct answer Pulmonary circuit: right heart, lungs, left heart/ carries blood to lungs for gas exchange/ right side of heart Systemic circuit: left heart, body, right heart/ supplies blood to all organs of the body/ left side of the heart -Location: thoracic cavity (in the mediastinum...

A Nephrotoxicity and . hepatotoxicity B Endocarditis and hypertension . C Peripheral neuropathy . D Hyperkalemia and hyponatremia . 1 points QUESTION 2 1. An immunocompromised cancer patient has developed cryptococcal meningitis and been admitted to the intensive care unit for treatment with amphotericin B. How should the nurse most safely administer this drug? A Place the patient on a constant infusion of amphotericin B at a rate determined . by the patient's body weight. B In...

Deze samenvatting begint met een stukje verdieping in het hart en de hartwand. Vervolgens worden de ontstekingen van het hart uitgebreid beschreven waaronder: endocarditis, myocarditis, pericarditis en pericarditis constrictiva. Vervolgens komen de onderwerpen pericardeffusie, harttamponnade en de verschillende vormen van cardiomyopathie aan bod. Ook wordt pulsus parodoxus uitgelegd. Tot slot wordt de soorten aorta dissecties beschreven, dit onderdeel start eerst met de anatomie van de aort...