Week 4

1.  ELECTRONIC REFERENCE:

·         I used the database. Sage ereference in order to locate an ebook. I found it to be the one that I understood the best over all the other ones.

·         In order to find the books on my topic I used the words, cardiovascular, genetic cardiology, and cardiology. I found the same book in all three cases. The book I chose to use for this assignment was a portion of a book entitled The Encyclopedia of Human Development. The portion was entitled Cardiovascular.

·         The age of the book is nine years. The book was published in 2005. The author/contributor of this section was Crystal L. Park. Crystal L. Park is a psychology professor at the University of Conneticut. She studies health psychology, stress and coping, religiousity/spirituaulity, meaning-making, and stress growth. The publishing company is SAGE publications, Inc. The book was published in Thousand Oaks.

·         Reading this portion of the book I have realized that not all heart related problems are developed through eating habits and biological factors. I discovered that there are psychosocial factors, and demographic factors. There are also four basic ways to treat heart conditions and that they are well known by people  because they can go for many other things as well: prescription, lifestyle changes, surgery, and procedure that can be done.

·         I read about symptoms, risk factors, demographic factors, biological factors, psychosocial factors, and prevention and treatment.

·         Possible research questions that I came up with are:

o   What types of treatment are there for cardiovascular disorders?

o   What are treatment options for heart problems?

o   What does the term cardiovascular cover regarding the circulatory system?

·         Words:

o   Distinctive- coronary heart disease, cardiomyopathy

o   Broad- heart problems

o   Narrow-

o   Related- stress,

2.  BOOK FROM SEARCH IT, THE LIBRARYS CATALOG:

·         The title of the Book is ECGs & the Heart.

·         The book covers what ECGs mean and how they are recorded. It analyses the information that you can recover using an ECG machine. It covers how to place the electrodes properly. It also teaches you how to read an ECG and what the peaks and falls mean.

3.  EBOOK FROM SEARCH IT:

·         The title of the book that I retrieved is Clinical Cardiogenentics.

·         It was published in 2011. The Publisher is Springer in London. The Author is H. F Baars, J.J. van der Smagt, and Doevendans. H. F Baars has published books on Cardiology and is a Cardio Genetic Doctor. J.J. van der Smagt is a cardiologistic researcher at the University Medical Center Utrecht, and is in the Medical Genetics of cardiology. Doevendans is a cardiac doctor who researches human stem cells in order to repair cardiac muscles.

·         I find that I could use this to broaden my study from pediatrics to other ages as well and look at the cardiac issues for all ages and see if I can find anything about if they affect people differently at different ages.

REFLECTION:

I have learned that researching the author is a good idea and plan on doing it in the future. I don’t care about having to do so much work in order to research but have found that it is useful and time consuming. I plan on using the ASAP process in the future in order to keep up to date on the information that I am going to be using. Out dated information would not be a good idea for my topic. I think looking broadly and then narrowing it down rather than just trying to jump to a narrow topic would be most beneficial. I have always felt overwhelmed or not known where to begin on research when I don’t get any background information on a topic.