How accurate are blood presure monitors in detecting irregular heartbeat?
I'm 21 years old, been diagnosed with hyperyension & tachycardia. Recently some new symptoms have devolved, nausea, shortness of breath, uneasiness, and sometimes near fainting episodes. When they symptoms are present I check my blood pressure on my monitor which tells me it detects an irregular heartbeat & average pulse of 120x My primary doctor did an ekg during an office visit, this only showed tachycardia, but now irregular heartbeat. Only thing was I had no synptoms at the time. Tomorrow I am going to the cardiologist as ekg's only capture your heart during those few seconds. She said the cardiologist will suggest either a holater monitor or event monitor. Are blood pressure machines accurate at detecting irregukar heart beats? At the moment I feel nausceous, vomited a few times & feel my heart beating in my chest. My synptoms seem to describe supra ventricular tachycardia, I know this irregularity is not life threatening. My question is have people used blood pressure to detect irregular heart beats? And how accurate?
Intensive Care: What does this image from an ICU monitor mean?
The top green row is the heart rate and rhythm. This patient is in tachycardia with a rate >90, and possibly having a myocardial infarction. It could possibly be an ST elevation myocardial infarction (MI). But there's either movement or just artifact (signal interference) so the baseline is all over the place. This patient is on a 3 lead monitor, I'd want a 12 lead EKG if I saw this. The t wave is suspiciously elevated, so if there wasn't an MI evolving I'd want to check electrolytes, especially potassium. So the rhythm could just be sinus tachycardia with lots of signal interference (I'd be telling my patient to get off the damn phone) which is making it difficult to really tell what is going on. The green 97 is the current heart rate.The II you see to left of the green strip is indicating the EKG view is in lead 2. The blue line is pulse oximetry, the probe attached to the fingertip. It's reading 100% which is perfect. If you look at the trend line behind it it looks like either the probe was just adjusted or they just applied oxygen.The purple 18 is the respiratory rate. A normal rate is between 16-20, so this person is fine. By looking at the purple line you can see they're taking regular, deep breaths. Either this person is being instructed to take deep breaths or they are consciously doing it. Or, this could be a child. The monitor tends to interpret their movements in a magnified way. Which might account for the high heart rate.The white numbers is the blood pressure. It's a little low (which makes me think it's a kid again) or it's an adult who is decompensating or runs low. The number (71) is the mean arterial pressure, which indicates perfusion as long as it's above 60.The b/p is set to check every hour, so the nurse isn't concerned at all about it.As you can see, these numbers can indicate a wide range of clinical scenarios, which is why it's so important to treat the patient and not the numbers. *Looking at Lou's answer I'm quite certain we were looking at two different pictures.
Heart Beat Going up and Down while excersing WHATS GOING ON HELP ME!!!!?
Ok. So i am 15 a bit over weight not obese! I am 5'3 and i was at the gym today with my mom and i went on this machine called the ark , its like a elliptical but its not its like easer . Idk how to explain . anyway i went on that for 8 minutes then i got off cause i felt like i did enough . My heart stayed from 120 to 133 and then i got off and went on the treadmill to cool down i started off at a very low walking speed. 1.1 lowest was .06 any way so thats really slow! . Anyway i did it slow cause i felt a little o.o.b ( out of breath) , i put my hands on the bar to see what my rate was . It was 114 when i first saw it then it started to speed up like jumping number to 126 then it went down to about 84 then went back up and this happened in about 5 minutes . Could my treadmill had been defective . It wasnt doing that when i was on the ark machine. i was making sure when i was on the ark to watch my breathing and slowing down. to get my heart rate between 120 to 130 any way i do have a heart mur-mur ( im not sure how to spell it the found it when i was 12 . But the heart doctor told me it was absoulutly fine and that i could go back to normal activity i didnt even work that hard . i dance on the weekend and i dance really hard for long periods so no i want working hard at all !
Which equipment/machine is used to take intensive care of newborn babies?
In the neonatal intensive care unit (NICU), there are many machines and other types of equipment used to care for sick babies with many different problems. These machines seem less intimidating when you understand how they can help your baby.Blood pressure monitorA blood pressure monitor is a machine connected to a small blood pressure cuff wrapped around your baby's arm or leg. The cuff automatically takes your baby's blood pressure at regular times and displays the numbers on a screen.Cardiopulmonary monitorThis machine tracks your baby's heart and breathing rates. It's attached to your baby with small adhesive monitoring pads placed on her chest. The monitor displays information on the screen, which can be printed on paper. An alarm will sound if your baby's heart or breathing rate becomes too fast or too slow.Central lineThis is a small plastic tube inserted into a large blood vessel. Doctors can draw blood through the central line or use it to give your baby medicine or fluids.A PICC (peripherally inserted central catheter) line is a type of central line placed in one of the major blood vessels.Continuous positive airway pressure (C-PAP)Air is delivered to a baby's lungs either through small tubes in the baby's nose or through a tube inserted into her windpipe. The tubes are attached to a ventilator (respirator), which helps your baby breathe but does not breathe for her.Endotracheal tubeThis small plastic tube is inserted through a baby's nose or mouth down into the trachea (windpipe). The tube is attached to a ventilator (respirator), which can either help a baby breathe (as in C-PAP) or breathe for her.IncubatorBabies are placed in this clear plastic box, which keeps them warm and protects them from germs and noise.
How does one take care of premature babies?
If you're looking for an introduction on babies that are born prematurely, I've written an answer to that question.Gestational age < 32 weeks: The facility will supervise the baby's progress in an incubator in the Neonatal Intensive Care Unit (NICU). The incubator keeps the air temperature at a precise comfort level and offers germ-protection. The best facilities also recognize that skin-to-skin care from mother to baby can actually do good along with the incubator (Kangaroo Care). A specialist nurse will gently attach wires from monitoring machines to the baby’s body to keep a constant track of heart rate, breathing, and blood oxygen level. Gestational age 28-32 weeks: Your baby will still be kept in the incubator, but the arrangements will be slightly less intensive. If the little one still has severe breathing problems, then the usual intensive arrangements have to be made. If the conditions allow, then the hospital will arrange the CPAP (Continuous Positive Airway Pressure), which is nothing but small tubes attached lightly to the baby's nose.Gestational Age 32 weeks: It is important to understand that premature babies are more prone to catching infections than others are. Since they did not get the full time required to develop completely, their immune systems remain weak.However, there is an amazing solution and it is literally close to your heart! Yes, breast milk is like a magical elixir for the baby. Indeed, it is magical because every mother's own milk has been found to be specially suitable for her baby. So, a pre-term mom's milk has more protein concentrates and immune boosters than other mothers. In pre-term, breastfeeding is the best nutrition but your baby may not be able to suckle yet. You will have to use breast pumps to extract the milk and feed it from a bottle. Remember, when you take your baby home, even the slightest of things matter. For ex: temperature drop, various troubles while travelling by car, etc. Once home, remember to take your baby to regular doctor checkups, and train yourself in infant CPR.Credits: BeingTheParent.com
Is there any danger to having our heart rate at 200 per minute for a few hours? (I’m 23)?
At rest 200 beats per minute is definitely pathological. Since you said it is going on for hours, I have to assume you are not exercising. Even in exercise you maximum heart rate should be. I more then (220 - your age X 80%) easily less than 200, and certainly not for hours. You are asking for serious heart damage. As one respondent mentioned your heart is not filling properly at that rate and your organs are not being perfused well. This can call all kinds of problems in your body.A heart rate of 200 bpm is seriously pathological and could have several serious consequences, the worst being death. Most likely it is Paroxysmal Atrial Tachycardia (PAT) this has a few causes, and must be stopped quickly. It starts and stops rapidly. But between can be hours. There are two genetic causes of this. WPW and LGL syndrome are their names. Explaining the physiology would require a long dissertation for here. Essentially it is a genetic defect that causes these symptoms usually in a person's young adult phase initially. Further reading would be required to understand the full significance of this problemIt is curable, but requires a significant invasive cardiology technique to complex to explain here on Quora. You need to do further reading.Lown–Ganong–Levine syndrome - WikipediaWolff-Parkinson-White syndrome (WPW): MedlinePlus Medical Encyclopedia
How can we detect a patient's death when he's on a ventilator? We’ve noticed that hospitals keep putting patients on ventilators even after death to make money.
Am not sure where in the world you are. In my place we having a chronic shortage of available ventilated ICU beds, and the payment just enough to cover our costs, so we would never dream of ventilating a “dead” body. It also depends on how death is defined at your place.When sick people on the ventilator don’t make it, their blood pressure goes down, and at the end their heart stops beating, which can be seen on the heart rhythm monitor. No signals from inside the artery (arterial line), central venous pressure, percutaneous oxygen saturationDetermining brain death is a lot more difficult see Brain stem death - Diagnosis