Nifedipine (Adalat‚Procardia‚others) Prototype Drug / .Therapeutic Class: Drug for hypertension and angina Pharmacologic Class: Calcium channel blocker. ACTIONS AND USESNifedipine is CCB generally prescribed for HTN and variant or vasospastic angina. It is occasionally used to treat Raynaud’s phenomenon and hypertrophic cardiomyopathy. Nifedipine acts by selectively bloking calcium channels in myocardial and vascular smooth muscle‚ including those in the coronary arteries. This results
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How A Minimally Invasive Hip Replacement And Traditional Hip Surgery Compare If you need to have a total hip replacement‚ your doctor will choose between a traditional surgery and one that is minimally invasive. Both types of surgeries achieve the same result of replacing your damaged hip joint with an artificial joint‚ but the procedures for the surgeries are different. Here’s how the surgeries compare and how your doctor determines which one is suitable for you. There Is Less Damage To Tissues
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Discharge Teaching Plan Patient History Patient is a white female admitted with Mood Disorder NOS and R/O Bipolar Disorder. She has a strong family history—mother is positive for Bipolar Disorder and Anxiety Disorder and has attempted suicide 3X since January. Her uncle is positive for Personality Disorder. Patient was raped at her stepfather‚ sexually abused by her Grandfather whom she resides‚ and physically abused by her biological father whom she resided with for 6 months‚ prior to moving
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What is Hip Replacement Surgery? Or otherwise‚ known as (Hip Arthroplasty.) Hip replacement surgery is an operation that will replace your natural hip with an artificial joint. In the normal hip‚ the two bones of the hip joint fit together like a ball and socket. The top part of the thigh bone which is the femur is shaped like a ball and it fits into the socket cavity of the pelvic bone. Ligaments hold the joint together and stabilize it. Hip replacement surgery is the second most common joint
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Today I observed a left total knee replacement procedure. The surgeon was Dr. O’Neil and anesthesiologist was Dr. Wells. Before the operation began‚ I followed one of the nurses to ask the patient questions to help us determine their medical history and if the patient ate anything within the last twelve hours. Once we took the patient to the O.R.‚ Dr. Wells checked the patient’s vital signs and ordered the patient to sit up and have bad posture. Dr. Wells cleaned an area of the back where he injected
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Study. The reason I have chosen this option is because my grandmother just underwent knee replacement surgery. This would be a perfect time to display how her living arrangement will be. While looking at the other option‚ I could not see any other option more fitting than option A‚ Case Management Study. I will discuss how is her current living arrangement and the services that she is receiving. Also I will share the plan that the doctors have set her up with to help rehab her back to health. As
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DePuy Hip Replacement Recall The complaints about defective hip implants made by DePuy Orthopaedics‚ Inc.‚ a part of Johnson and Johnson’s Medical Devices & Diagnostics group‚ had been sending to the U.S. Food and Drug Administration over the past two years. On August 24‚ 2010‚ after a warning letter from the F.D.A. and the new medical information of these faulty hip implants from the UK National Joint Registry‚ DePuy finally recalled about 93‚000 of these artificial joints. What are the ethical
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Introduction The area of interest will focus on the multi-disciplinary team (MDT) approach to pain management after total knee replacement (TKR)‚ factors involving patients views and why patient’s perspectives are important to researchers in evaluating the data and improving patient outcomes. Total knee replacement is an effective intervention that relieves chronic pain and helps to restore mobility often caused by osteoarthritis (OA). (Wylde et al‚ 2007) according to Arthritis UK (2016)‚ OA is
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Waves Introduction For this experiment‚ the use of equipment such as oscillators and function generators were used in order to calculate forms of AC waves. Waves are visual representations of the variation of a voltage or current over time and are used in many applications throughout technology. Aim The aim of this laboratory was to be able to measure the voltage in a circuit over a specific time using equipment such as an oscilloscope‚ and using it to look at the SINE wave that is
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People undergo total knee replacement when arthritis or injury erodes the joint’s natural cushioning to the point where it’s hard to walk even short distances without severe pain. Knee replacements now cost the NHS more each year than total hip replacements. An ageing population and an increase in obesity-related conditions are placing an increasing strain on NHS resources‚ with the number of knee replacements performed rising by 15 per cent last year from 59‚391 to 68‚300. Doctors
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