Respiratory complication is one of the common causes of death‚ and my grandfather passed away from aspiration pneumonia couple years ago. Although we inadvertently breath air for granted‚ I observed many patients who had a difficulty breathing like my grandfather while shadowing a physician in ICU. Some of them had a lung surgery‚ while others were able to recover from a minimally invasive procedure using bronchoscopy. Certainly‚ my interest towards this field might change as I encounter new physicians
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Long term consequences are complications that have developed over many years and all have to do with how blood glucose levels can affect blood vessels. If your blood glucose levels aren’t controlled damage can be done to your body’s blood vessels over time. However‚ controlling your blood glucose levels carefully can help you avoid any of these long term consequences. So there are two types of complications done to your blood vessels: microvascular complications which is damage to small blood vessels
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Maternal Child Nursing I. Family A group of two or more persons who lives together in the same household‚ perform certain interrelated social tasks and share an emotional bond II. Types: a. Nuclear i. Husband‚ wife‚ children ii. Provide support and feel affection to family members b. Cohabitation family i. Heterosexual couple living together But NOT married ii. Short or long term c. Extended or Multigenerational family i. Nuclear family + other family members ii. May experience financial
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Maternal Health and Child Health Systems Assessment Tool Version 2.1 A tool for assessment of health service systems to support maternal health and child health Health during early childhood and pregnancy has long term and wide ranging impacts on the general health of populations. Promotion of good health in pregnancy and childhood are therefore critical activities of primary health care services. Health service systems need to be organised to meet the specific needs of maternal and child
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1 Maternal Health in Afghanistan Introduction Six years ago‚ the reality of Afghanistan’s maternal mortality rate (MMR) sent shockwaves through the international health community‚ and resolving the issue became a key priority in the interim government’s strategy. The poor state of maternal health in Afghanistan is due to a range of medical factors as well as social‚ political‚ economic and environmental determinants. To address the situation‚ Afghanistan’s Ministry of Health (MoH) introduced
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Maternal Deprivation is a catch- phrase summarizing the work of psychiatrist John Bowlby on the effects of separating infants and young children from their mother (or mother substitute) John Bowlbys lifetime work was based around studying childhood through Developmental Psychology. Bowlby believed that there are enormous psychological consequences for a child who has experienced separation from its maternal figure‚ which he concluded in his “Thieves study” Bowlbys theory of monotropy led to the
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mothers who had a child with a recently incarcerated man were 54% more likely of being depressed than for women who had a child with a man not recently incarcerated (Wildeman‚ Schnittker‚ Turney‚ 11). Maternal depression is an important consequence of paternal incarceration because it seriously impacts the mother-child relationship which can affect the child’s mental and emotional development (Beardslee‚ et al.‚ 3). Mothers with depression who have young children tend to be less responsive and interactive
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deal with Maternal Mortality in Ghana Maternal mortality is the death of a woman during pregnancy or within 42 days at the end of pregnancy from causes aggravated by the pregnancy but not from incidental causes. A woman’s risk of death in childbirth over the course of her life may be due to many factors including the number of children she already has‚ spacing of the births‚ conditions under which she gives birth and her own health and nutritional status. 99 percent (%) of maternal deaths occurs
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Delivery on Demand Katie Mercuri February 11‚ 2015 Katie Mercuri Casey Weisbeck English Composition 2 February 11‚ 2015 Delivery on Demand “Too Posh to Push”‚ “Babies on Demand”‚ and “Honeymoon Fresh”. Theses attention grabbing titles are an example of media influence on our society. In today’s day and age media and pop culture are a major factor in the way we act as a society. Many people strive to live like celebrities‚ and even go as far as basing important decisions off the
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A maternal instinct is a bond that forms between a mother and a child while the child is still in the womb. Overtime I do believe that a lot of women have lost that maternal instinct with their unborn child due to dangerous factors coming in between that bond. I do believe that maternal instincts should be allowed to be regulated by the government or anybody who has the unborn child’s best interest at heart. Though the mother may have the best interest at heart‚ it may be lost because of a form of
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