Mr. Khan is a 78 year old man admitted in hospital for sustaining a Myocardial Infarction. His descriptive symptoms included chest pains that were crushing in nature that extended to his arm, neck and jaw which are consistent with a heart attack (Alumni et al., 205). Prior to this attack, he had been advised on switching up his diet and shedding some weight, both of which he did not follow. An MI is likely to result to an irregular heartbeat, heart failure, cardiac arrest or cardiogenic shock (Petrovic et al., 207). Mr. Khan is undergoing end of life care with the clinical staff wondering whether the patient should be resuscitated or not. Legally, an MI can at times be considered a line of duty injury by policy if it is as a result of work-related exertion or emotional stress but in most cases it is treated as a disease. However, since Mr. Khans condition is not as a result of unusual exertion from the workplace, his condition is not covered in the administration of no-fault schemes. The patient is therefore likely to be neglected if resuscitated and not in a position to cover his own medical fee at a time when safe nursing care is his main priority.
A biological risk factor that contributed towards Mr. Khans myocardial infarc
tion is an unhealthy diet. High cholesterol consumption results in gradual build up of plaque along the walls of arteries, especially coronary arteries leading to atherosclerosis. The atherosclerotic plaque may then rapture over decades of accumulation and if located in an artery supplying to a heart muscle, myocardial infarction is most likely to occur. Given that Mr. Khan was instructed by is physician to check on his diet and his weight, it is accurate to deduce that he had unhealthy practices. Patients like Mr. Khan should be under close monitoring by healthcare providers in order to make sure that dietary modifications are adhered to strictly, helping with both the body mass index and blood pressure. Not observing a patients body mass index can also lead to obesity which is another precursor to myocardial infarction (Windecker et al., 205). Blocking, clotting, and inflammation of the walls of the coronary arteries are the primary causes of myocardial infarction among others. Obesity is a known cause for blocking of the arteries that are squeezed and narrowed by the excess body fat, high triglyceride (a fat related to human diet) levels as well as high blood cholesterol levels (Anderson and Morrow, 207; Gress et al., 2000).