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This chronicle refers to cardiovascular problems and adapted nursing care.
Responsibility: Jean-Luc Beaumont, consultant.
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- Canadian Best Practice Recommendations for Stroke Care. This Canadian Stroke Strategy evidence-based Canadian Best Practice Recommendations for Stroke Care are intended to help reduce practice variations and close the gaps between evidence and practice. First and most important, the purpose of each update is to ensure that the best practice recommendations continue to reflect contemporary stroke research evidence and expert opinion. Each update involves critical review of the medical literature, which informs decisions regarding modification of the recommendations and the performance measures used to assess the impact of the recommendations. Update December 8, 2010, PDF 247 p. Source: Suggest by a nurse working in Stroke Care in the Survey "Interest for Infiressources. (Last visit, April 13, 2011).
- A Patient’s Guide to Canadian Best Practice Recommendations for Stroke Care. This guide provides patients and their families with practical information drawn from the recommendations. PDF 6 p. Consult also Getting on With the Rest of Your Life After Stroke, PDF 36 p.. (Last visit, April 13, 2011).
- Highlights of the 2010 Guidelines for CPR/ECC. This “Guidelines Highlights” publication summarizes the key issues and changes in the 2010 American Heart Association (AHA) Guidelines for Cardiopulmonary Resuscitation (CPR) and Emergency Cardiovascular Care (ECC). It has been developed for resuscitation providers and for AHA instructors to focus on resuscitation science and guidelines recommendations that are most important or controversial or will result in changes in resuscitation practice or resuscitation training. In addition, it provides the rationale for the recommendations. PDF 4 MB, 32 p. (Last visit, November 7, 2010).
- Peripheral Artery Disease — Under Diagnosed, Under Treated by Michael S. Conte, M.D. Chief of Vascular and Endovascular Surgery, UCSF Heart and Vascular Center, February 2009.
- Clinical monitoring of antiarrhythmics in critical care by Jean-Luc Beaumont, nurse-clinician specialized in cardiovascular and respiratory nursing. The purpose of this article is to provide an understanding of the action mechanisms of antiarrhythmics and the clinical monitoring associated with their expected outcomes. This article is divided into two parts. The electrophysiology section explains the relationship between the action potential of the myocardial fiber and the point of impact of antiarrhythmics. The antiarrythmics section covers the classification and action mechanisms of each class of antiarrhythmics as well as clinical monitoring.
- Cardiac rehabilitation: Building a better life after heart disease on MayoClinic.com.
- Cardiovascular disease 101: Understanding heart and blood vessel conditions on MayoClinic.com.
- You can prevent a stroke! On Public Health Agency of Canada.
- Multilingual and multicultural web resources .The Heart and Sroke Foundation has translated and culturally adapted some resources for First Nation, African-Canadian, Chinese, Iranian/Persian and South Asian communities to increase understanding of the risk factors and warning signs for heart disease and stroke.
- Shake your salt habit by Alyssa Rolnick, RD. Too much salt may increase blood pressure, the number one risk factor for stroke and a major contributor to heart disease. Because our diets are generally so high in salt, everybody – even those with normal blood pressure – can benefit from reducing their salt intake.
Here are five easy ways. Source: The Heart and Stroke Foundation.
- Estimate of the benefits of a population-based reduction in dietary sodium additives on hypertension and its related health care costs in Canada by Michel R Joffres MD PhD, Norm RC Campbell MD, Braden Manns MSc MD, Karen Tu MSc MD. Estimate of the benefits of a population-based reduction in dietary sodium additives on hypertension and its related health care costs in Canada. Canadian Journal of Cardiology 2007; 23 (6) : 437-443.
- Auscultation Assistant A favourite medical learning object suitable for any health care student. It provides text description and audio examples of various heart and breath sounds. The sounds are broken up into certain categories. The lung sounds provide examples of cackles and wheezes. By Christopher Cable. Source: Eureka.
- Stroke, newly designed, easy-to-navigate stroke section to help you find the information you may be looking for – from prevention, tests and treatments. On the site of The Heart and Stroke Foundation.
- Let's talk about stroke. An information guide for survivors and their families. On the site of The Heart and Stroke Foundation.
- High blood pressure (hypertension) at MayoClinic.com. Article sections: signs and symptoms, causes, risk factors, when to seek medical advice, screening and diagnosis, complications, treatment, self-care and coping skills.
- Stroke: Medical Tests and Treatments provides stroke survivors, at their family and caregivers with valuable information about the prevention, diagnosis and treatment of stroke.
- Global study shows nine factors identify majority of heart attack risks from Canadian Institutes of Health Research.
- The Healthy Heart Kit on the site of the Public Health Agency of Canada.
- Heart Disease on the site of The Heart and Stroke Foundation. All the information is Canadian, current and has been developed and approved by Heart and Stroke Foundation medical experts. Please scroll down the page and click on the topic of your choice.
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