Cardiac Patients at End of Life in the Emergency Department
Fig. 6.1 Trajectories of dying (From Lunney et al. [8]. Reprinted with permission from John Wiley and Sons) In most cases, it is difficult for ED physicians to provide a…
End-of-Life Care in Hospitalized Patients with Cardiovascular and Cerebrovascular Disease
Diagnosis Procedure In-hospital mortality Coronary artery disease Percutaneous coronary intervention 2.1–3.2 % [13] Coronary artery disease Coronary artery bypass grafting 4.7–6.0 % 9.2 % mortality for age ≥ 80 years [14] Heart…
Management of Hospitalized Patients with Unexpected Cardiopulmonary Arrest
1. Social work (SW) or support person calls family (friends/loved ones) to the hospital. Do not deliver news of death over the phone unless impractical to do otherwise 2. Family…
Decision Making About End of Life Care: Advance Directives, Durable Power of Attorney for Healthcare, and Talking with Patients with Heart Disease About Dying
Year Event 1967 First advance directive created by Luis Kutner 1976 First state law (California) legally sanctioning living wills 1976 New Jersey Supreme Court establishes right of family member to…
End of Life Care in the Intensive Care Unit
Domains of quality ICU palliative care [18]a Examples of ICU palliative care quality indicators [19] Patient- and family-centered decision making Identification of a medical decision maker (or other appropriate surrogate)…
Conduction and Rhythm Disorders
channels involved in ventricular repolarization such as those responsible for the fast component of the repolarizing transient outward K current () through the K4.2–KChIP2 channel, thereby prolonging ventricular action potential…
Coronary Artery Disease and Myocardial Infarction
and reactive oxygen species. Ischemic preconditioning (IPC), that is, exposure to short (5-min) episodes of hypoxia and reoxygenation, protects the heart against injury caused by a subsequent prolonged episode of…
Pathogenesis of Cardiac Diseases
-Adrenoceptors 1.5 Interactions Between Cardiac Cell Populations 1.5.1 Examples of Signaling Messengers 1.5.2 Mitochondrial Signals 1.5.3 Epicardium 1.5.4 Cardiac Cell–Endotheliocyte Interactions 1.5.5 Adipocyte and Structural Remodeling 1.5.6 Interactions Between Cardiac…
Context of Cardiac Diseases
and low-density lipoprotein receptor (LDLR) mice can develop atherosclerosis both with and without high-fat feeding, hence their selection as a representative model of human situation. However, lesions that develop over…
Heart Failure
1 7.4.6 GPCR Kinase 7.4.7 Cardiorenal Syndrome 7.5 Cardiac Energetics 7.5.1 Modeling 7.5.2 Regulators of Cardiac Energetics 7.5.3 Mitochondrial Dysfunction 7.6 Remodeling 7.6.1 Transverse Tubule Remodeling in Heart Failure 7.6.2…
