NURS 371 Lecture Notes - Lecture 4: Coronary Artery Disease, Femoral Artery, Coronary Circulation

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Care of the client with cardiac disorders (part 1: overview of the cardiac system. Diagnostic studies to assess cardiac functioning: laboratory studies, cardiac. Some are nonspecific and elevate with any damage, others are cardiac specific. We measure these to determine if cardiac injury has occurred and when it occurred. Note: there may be slight differences between my lecture and other books in regards to elevation & peak time. Elevates with any type of cellular injury in the body. Especially with muscle damage: could be heart, musculoskeletal, brain, etc. One of the earliest indicators that there is injury, but not specifically cardiac. Slightly more specific; looks at heart and musculoskeletal. Tested after ck is elevated, takes longer to get more specific. Elevated with muscle injury; within 1st hr. usually. Serial cardiac enzymes (ce x3) done every few hours to determine peak and. 3 times, every 6 hours for results of 18 hours.

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