Question

Randi Marchant, a 42-year-old waitress, was vacuuming the family room when she felt that painful squeezing in her chest again. This was the third time today, but this one really hurt. She sat down to catch her breath and stubbed out the cigarette she had left smoldering in the half-filled ashtray by the couch. Randi’s husband, Jimmy, and stepdaughter Melonie had pestered her until she finally had taken time off work to see her doctor. Dr. Harris found that her blood pressure was 158/88—probably owing to the noon rush stress at work, she rationalized. At least her cholesterol test was only 30 points above average this time. It had been slowly coming down, even though she cheated on her diet.

Another wave of pain tightened its icy fingers around her heart, and the pain moved up into both sides of her jaw. Randi thought, “Probably just a little heartburn. Since the pain doesn’t radiate down my left arm, it couldn’t be my heart, could it?”

“Don’t think about the pain,” she told herself. “Think of something else. Melonie’s prom dress needs altering.” Randi fell to the floor, clutching her chest, just as Melonie walked in. She saw her stepmother slumped on the floor and screamed, “Oh my God! Help, somebody, help!”

In developing your paper, include answers to the following questions:

1. What information in the story indicates that Randi might be a candidate for heart disease?

2. Discuss why Randi thought this was not a heart attack.

3. What can Melonie do immediately to try to save Randi’s life?

4. Assuming that Randi is suffering a myocardial infarction, discuss why it is important that she receive appropriate treatment quickly.

Answer 1

0 The information in the story indicates that Randi might be a candidate for heart disease is she is a smoker, have high blood pressure and have high cholestral level Which is more than average level and most important one is she is experiencing repeated chest pain. @ she thought she is not having any pain in her left' anno so it may not be symptom for heart attack because symptom of heart attack include pain in left arm so she though it was not an heart attack. Cardiopulmonary resuscitation can be used by Melonie to save Raindi's life. m Myocardium infarction causes death if not treated appropriately. Because minutes can make difference in one's treatments