This presentation is about heart, it tells about how Cardiac muscles produce rhythmical beats, how the impulse are generated and conducted. This presentation tries to make Electrocardiogram easy to understand. Thank you
This presentation is about heart, it tells about how Cardiac muscles produce rhythmical beats, how the impulse are generated and conducted. This presentation tries to make Electrocardiogram easy to understand. Thank you
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a. the pathophysiology of selected disease states and the rationale for drug therapy;
b. the therapeutic approach to management of these diseases;
c. the controversies in drug therapy;
d. the importance of preparation of individualised therapeutic plans based on diagnosis;
e. needs to identify the patient-specific parameters relevant in initiating drug therapy,
and monitoring therapy (including alternatives, time-course of clinical and laboratory
indices of therapeutic response and adverse effects);
f. describe the pathophysiology of selected disease states and explain the rationale for
drug therapy;
g. summarise the therapeutic approach to management of these diseases including
reference to the latest available evidence;
h. discuss the controversies in drug therapy;
i. discuss the preparation of individualised therapeutic plans based on diagnosis; and
j. identify the patient-specific parameters relevant in initiating drug therapy, and
monitoring therapy (including alternatives, time-course of clinical and laboratory indices of therapeutic response and adverse effects).
Anti anginal drugs, uses, mechanism of action, adverse effectsKarun Kumar
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Hypolipidemic agents, also known as cholesterol-lowering drugs or antihyperlipidemic agents, are a diverse group of pharmaceuticals that are used in the treatment of high levels of fats (lipids), such as cholesterol, in the blood (hyperlipidemia). They are also called lipid-lowering drugs.
Etiopathogenesis and pharmacotherapy of arrhythmia
a. the pathophysiology of selected disease states and the rationale for drug therapy;
b. the therapeutic approach to management of these diseases;
c. the controversies in drug therapy;
d. the importance of preparation of individualised therapeutic plans based on diagnosis;
e. needs to identify the patient-specific parameters relevant in initiating drug therapy,
and monitoring therapy (including alternatives, time-course of clinical and laboratory
indices of therapeutic response and adverse effects);
f. describe the pathophysiology of selected disease states and explain the rationale for
drug therapy;
g. summarise the therapeutic approach to management of these diseases including
reference to the latest available evidence;
h. discuss the controversies in drug therapy;
i. discuss the preparation of individualised therapeutic plans based on diagnosis; and
j. identify the patient-specific parameters relevant in initiating drug therapy, and
monitoring therapy (including alternatives, time-course of clinical and laboratory indices of therapeutic response and adverse effects).
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VISION
Being proactive
Supporting optimal animal and human health
Exploring ways to reduce overall use of antimicrobials
Using the drugs that prevent and treat disease by killing microscopic organisms in a responsible way
GOAL
to prevent the generation and spread of antimicrobial resistance (AMR). Doing so will preserve the effectiveness of these drugs in animals and humans for years to come.
being to preserve human and animal health and the effectiveness of antimicrobial medications.
to implement a multidisciplinary approach in assembling a stewardship team to include an infectious disease physician, a clinical pharmacist with infectious diseases training, infection preventionist, and a close collaboration with the staff in the clinical microbiology laboratory
to prevent antimicrobial overuse, misuse and abuse.
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2. • Electrical activity is initiated by the sinoatrial (SA) node and moves
through cardiac tissue via a treelike conduction network.
• The SA node initiates cardiac rhythm under normal circumstances
because this tissue possesses the highest degree of automaticity or
rate of spontaneous impulse generation.
• The degree of automaticity of the SA node is largely influenced by
the autonomic nervous system
• Most tissues within the conduction system also possess varying
degrees of inherent automatic properties.
• However, the rates of spontaneous impulse generation of these
tissues are less than that of the SA node.
3. • From the SA node, electrical activity moves in a wavefront through an atrial
specialized conducting system and eventually gains entrance to the ventricle
via an atrioventricular (AV) node and a large bundle of conducting tissue
referred to as the bundle of His.
• Aside from this AV nodal–Hisian pathway, a fibrous AV ring that will not
permit electrical stimulation separates the atria and ventricles.
• The conducting tissues bridging the atria and ventricles are referred to as
the junctional areas.
• From the bundle of His, the cardiac conduction system bifurcates into
several (usually three) bundle branches: one right bundle and two left
bundles.
• These bundle branches further arborize into a conduction network referred
to as the Purkinje system.
4. • The conduction system as a whole innervates the mechanical
myocardium and serves to initiate excitation-contraction coupling
and the contractile process.
• After a cell or group of cells within the heart is stimulated
electrically, a brief period of time follows in which those cells
cannot be excited again.
• This time period is referred to as the refractory period.
5. • Prior to cellular excitation, an electrical gradient exists between the
inside and the outside of the cell membrane.
• At this time, the cell is polarized.
• In atrial and ventricular conducting tissue, the intracellular space is
about 80 to 90 mV negative with respect to the extracellular
environment.
• The electrical gradient just prior to excitation is referred to as
resting membrane potential (RMP) and is the result of differences in
ion concentrations between the inside and the outside of the cell.
6. • At RMP, the cell is polarized primarily by the action of active
membrane ion pumps, the most notable of these being the sodium-
potassium pump.
• For example, this specific pump (in addition to other systems)
attempts to maintain the intracellular sodium concentration at 5–15
mEq/L and the extracellular sodium concentration at 135– 142
mEq/L and the intracellular potassium concentration at 135–140
mEq/L and the extracellular potassium concentration at 3–5 mEq/L.
• RMP can be calculated by using the Nernst equation:
7. • Electrical stimulation (or depolarization) of the cell will result in
changes in membrane potential over time or a characteristic action
potential curve.
• The action potential curve results from the transmembrane
movement of specific ions and is divided into different phases.
• Phase 0, or initial, rapid depolarization of atrial and ventricular
tissues, is due to an abrupt increase in the permeability of the
membrane to sodium influx.
• This rapid depolarization more than equilibrates (overshoots) the
electrical potential, resulting in a brief initial repolarization, or
phase 1.
8. • Phase 1 (initial depolarization) is due to a transient and active potassium
efflux.
• Calcium begins to move into the intracellular space at about –60 mV
(during phase 0), causing a slower depolarization.
• Calcium influx continues throughout phase 2 of the action potential
(plateau phase) and is balanced to some degree by potassium efflux.
• Calcium entrance (only through L-channels in myocardial tissue)
distinguishes cardiac conducting cells from nerve tissue and provides the
critical ionic link to excitation-contraction coupling and the mechanical
properties of the heart as a pump.
• The membrane remains permeable to potassium efflux during phase 3,
resulting in cellular repolarization.
9. • Phase 4 of the action potential is the gradual depolarization of the
cell and is related to a constant sodium leak into the intracellular
space balanced by a decreasing (over time) efflux of potassium.
• As the cell is slowly depolarized during phase 4, an abrupt increase
in sodium permeability occurs, allowing the rapid cellular
depolarization of phase 0.
• The juncture of phase 4 and phase 0, where rapid sodium influx is
initiated, is referred to the threshold potential of the cell.
10. • Ion conductance across the lipid bilayer of the cell membrane
occurs via the formation of membrane pores or channels
• Besides channel formation and membrane composition,
intrachannel proteins or phospholipids, referred to as gates, also
regulate the transmembrane movement of ions.
• These gates are thought to be positioned strategically within the
channel to modulate ion flow.
• Each ion channel conceptually has two types of gates: an activation
gate and an inactivation gate.
11. • The activation gate opens during depolarization to allow the ion
current to enter or exit from the cell, and the inactivation gate
closes to stop ion movement.
• When the cell is in a rested state, the activation gates are closed,
and the inactivation gates are open.
• The activation gates then open to allow ion movement through the
channel, and the inactivation gates later close to stop ion
conductance.
• Therefore, the cell cycles between three states: resting, activated or
open, and inactivated or closed.