Blog 16: Advisory Meeting #2

EQ: What factor most influences a successful angioplasty procedure?
Answer 2: A factor that influences the success of an angioplasty procedure would be the medication.
Details: When an angioplasty is done, it is essential that one takes their blood thinning medication to allow smooth blood flow in the newly opened artery. The second reason why you would need medication or blood thinners would be in the case of a sent. Blood thinners allow for blood to flow around the metal stent and prevent any build up around the "foreign" object. Lastly, medication of for previouse symptoms such as diabetes or high blood pressure should be continued as regulated to improve efficiency of blood flow.
Sources: mentorship has been a huge source for my second answer. My mentor goes into great detail the reason for medication as well as lifestyle. Another item of readership would be Esential Angioplasty by E. Von Schmilowski. It focuses primarily on angioplasty as with also stenting.

Independent Component 1

Literal

a. I, Angel Arredondo, affirm that I complete my independent component which represents 30 hours of work.

b. My main two sources that really helped my in my independent component were my mentorship with Oralia and Essential Angioplasty by E. von Schmilowsk, a book that focuses on mainly angioplasty.
c. Independent Component Log on my blog
d. So for my independent component I walked around the hospital with my mentor and learned how to approach patients and address the issues that were going on with them and how to resolve them. I also looked at cases where people needed angiograms, x-ray of the coronary arteries, and looked for lesions. In addition to all the learning, my mentor had me observe an actual procedure be done.

Interpretive

 

This is me in scrubs! When ever I had to go see a procedure, it was enforced I wear scrubs.

This is a letter proving that I did attend mentorship and work all those hours and sum for several months.
I had her write me a letter mainly because I can't prove much using pictures due to liability issues.
(the "USC" after the "Keck Medical Center of" didn't appear)

Applied
I think made my topic and project more clear would be shadowing my mentor and doing this component allowed me to gain that knowledge to develop my first answer and actually two possible other answers for my second and third answer. What really helped during the component was the repetition. I learned why certain medicines needed to be taken and why stents needed to be put in not just one place and how you need to maintain your body to greatly advance your healing and stabilize your well being.