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Monitoring of blood pressure and heart activity via ECG in prehospital urgent care
VRÁNOVÁ, Anna
The topic of this thesis is monitoring of blood pressure and heart activity via ECG in prehospital emergency care. So the thesis deals with a necessary part of a patient´s examination that precedes effective treatment. In the theoretical part the prehospital emergency care is defined and the emergency medical service, which provides this care, is characterized. Anatomy and physiology of heart is outlined there. Also blood pressure and its measurement is discussed there. Electrocardiography is described and information needed to basic orientation in ECG recording is introduced. The practical part was carried out using mixed methods research. The first method was a quantitative research in the form of a standardized anonymous questionnaire. Employees of the Emergency Medical Service of the South Bohemia Region who work as paramedics became the respondents of this questionnaire. The qualitative research strategy consisted in observation of paramedics when they were monitoring blood pressure and heart activity via ECG in the prehospital emergency care. The aims of the research part were these: mapping of states and situations that lead paramedics to monitor patient´s blood pressure and heart activity, description of different methods of blood pressure and heart activity monitoring and finding the paramedics´ experience with available apparatuses. The last aim was a detailed introduction to monitoring of blood pressure and heart activity via ECG. The results show the following information. Paramedics measure every or nearly every patient´s blood preasure. They begin to monitor heart activity via ECG when the patient suffers from chest pain, is unconcsious, when there is a risk of arrhythmias or when the patient is circulatory unstable. Auscultatory method mediated via aneroid sphygmomanometer is the most frequent way of blood pressure monitoring in prehospital emergency care. Paramedics are satisfied with apparatuses and tools used to blood pressure and heart activity monitoring. All the acquired knowledge serves to detailed introduction to the issue which a paramedic meets in his or her everyday work and must have full control of it.

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