title: How to protect a patient with aortic aneurysm.
abstract: Learn how to recognize and respond to the danger signs and act immediately to help save his life. Trouble is looming when the largest artery in the body develops a bulge. According to the Society for Vascular Surgery, each year approximately 200,000 people in the United States are diagnosed with aortic aneurysm - a bulge or ballooning in the artery that leads from the heart. About 15,000 of these aneurysms are severe enough to rupture, creating an urgent situation with a high risk of death. Read on to learn how to protect a patient with a suspected or known aortic aneurysm.
authors.affiliation: Albert Einstein Medical Center, Philadelphia, PA, USA.
authors.forename: Gail Hood
authors.initials: GH
authors.lastname: Irwin
mesh_terms: D000784:Aortic Dissection / Q000209:etiology / Q000517:prevention & control; D001014:Aortic Aneurysm / Q000150:complications / Q000175:diagnosis / Q000453:epidemiology / Q000628:therapy*; D001019:Aortic Rupture / Q000175:diagnosis / Q000209:etiology / Q000517:prevention & control; D001027:Aortography; D017548:Echocardiography, Transesophageal; D004630:Emergencies; D006801:Humans; D008991:Monitoring, Physiologic; D024802:Nurse's Role; D009730:Nursing Assessment; D019990:Perioperative Care / Q000379:methods / Q000451:nursing; D012307:Risk Factors; D014057:Tomography, X-Ray Computed