Nursing homework help
CAT2 Valvular Diseases
After completing your assigned readings, can anyone answer the following questions related to the diagnosis and treatment of valvular diseases?
What are the key factors that determine when to proceed to aortic valve replacement for patients with aortic stenosis? What guided decision making relating to aortic surgery for acute and chronic aortic regurgitation?
Which patients with aortic stenosis should be considered for transcatheter therapies such as valvuloplasty or transcatheter aortic valve replacement?
What are the indications for surgery in patients with mitral stenosis? What are the goals of medical therapy for mitral regurgitation and when should patients be considered for mitral valve repair or replacement?
When should patients with mitral regurgitations be considered for transcatheter mitral valve procedures?
What are the objectives of treatment of pulmonic valve disease? When should patients be referred for surgery or transcatheter valve replacement?
What are the factors that determine medical versus surgical treatment of tricuspid stenosis or tricuspid regurgitation?
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Nursing homework help
CAT 1
If you can visualize the path that blood takes through the heart and know what the heart is doing during diastole and systole, many other concepts will be easier for you to understand. The diagram below shows the path of the blood through the heart. Use this diagram and any other sources that you find appropriate to help you to understand this concept. Answer any of the following questions to show your understanding of this concept.
1. Describe the flow of blood through the heart.
2. What happens in the heart during ventricular diastole? What chambers relax and allow blood to fill the chamber? Which chambers contract and push blood out of the chamber? What valves are open during diastole? What valves are closed?
3. What happens in the heart during ventricular systole? What chambers relax and allow blood to fill the chamber? Which chambers contract and push blood out of the chamber? What valves are open during systole? What valves are closed?
4. What is occurring when you hear the S1, S2?
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