Heart Disease

What career-related subject or topic have you been working on or studying this term?

Since last year I have been working on my thesis project named "Nursing care of patients with Thrombolytic Therapy". This project was born on my personal interest for research in intensive and emergency nursing care and specially for cardiovascular diseases.
It´s about one of the acute myocardial infarction treatment and most useful in chilean public health. Since 2005 was included in the AUGE law, and it´s very important for keeping the people´s health, opportunities and dignity.
The thesis included a qualitative perspective to this treatment.

I introduced myself in this area with the help of my responsible tutor at Universidad de Chile and the emergency nurse managers in Santiago city as well as my own interest in this area, visiting heart deseases websites, papers and investigations.

I would like to know how we could less effectively the heart disease in own country and all the non-transmissible diseases associated with to harmful life styles. Also how we could help for optimizing the nursing practice in the Thrombolytic Therapy , specially listening opinions of all involucrated people, like nurses, doctors, patients and patient´s family.

Some websites in relation with this topic are:

www.americanheart.org
This page belong to American Heart Association (AHA), has all the information about heart diseases, promotion of healthy life styles, prevention, treatments, and also journals and scientific research.

http://www.vascularweb.org/_CONTRIBUTION_PAGES/Patient_Information/NorthPoint/Thrombolytic_Therapy.html
It contain a simple explanation about thrombolytic therapy for all the people non linked with medical area.