Feature Acute Kidney Injury: Not Just Acute Renal Failure Anymore? Susan Dirkes‚ RN‚ MSA‚ CCRN Until recently‚ no uniform standard existed for diagnosing and classifying acute renal failure. To clarify diagnosis‚ the Acute Dialysis Quality Initiative group stated its consensus on the need for a clear definition and classification system of renal dysfunction with measurable criteria. Today the term acute kidney injury has replaced the term acute renal failure‚ with an understanding that such
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forgotten. They seemed to have lost their voices and cannot advocate for themselves. More than fifty four million Americans are diagnosed with a mental illness any given year‚ and many of them go without the necessary treatment. One in four adults and one in five children will have a mental disorder in their life time. The three major types of mental illness are: schizophrenia‚ delusional‚ and psychotic disorder. The symptoms shown in Schizophrenias are: auditory and visual hallucinations‚ paranoia‚ and
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seen them played out on our favorite drama shows but these shows do not address the real severity of an actual heart attack despite the great acting skills portrayed . A heart attack can also be known as a myocardial infarction (MI)‚ acute myocardial infarction (AMI)‚ acute coronary syndrome‚ coronary thrombosis‚ or coronary occlusion‚ either way it is not good news. Over 1.2 million people in American have heart attacks with many of them resulting in death (Heart attack‚ 2011). A heart attack is a serious
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patient with acute abdominal pain Calister Dike Chamberlain College of Nursing NR 305 Health Assessments Susan Patterson Summer B Session Introduction Assessment of the patient with acute abdominal
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ankle instabilities develops in as many as 1040% following an acute injury.1 The ankle was found to be the most common site of injury in 24 out of the 70
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Malnutrition In The Philippines – How Will World Health Organization Deal With It? When you say malnutrition‚ it just means bad nutrition. Everyone who has bad nutrition usually does not have nutrients that a healthy body has. Poverty is the main cause if malnutrition because people are not able to eat the right kind of food they need. Lack of money means lack of food and lack of food can lead to malnutrition. Kids are usually the ones being affected by this condition‚ especially here in the Philippines
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found in blood. This test is a good measure of health of endocrine system‚ kidneys‚ and urinary tract. Artificial urine samples are used for today’s lab thank goodness. The test that this lab is mostly focused on is called “dipstick” urinalysis test where students will analyze the chemical composition of urine by dipping the chemical indicator stick or “dispstick” into a sample of urine. The chemicals in the pad of the indicator stick will react with various biochemicals‚ ions and salts found in
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ACUTE-ON-CHRONIC LIVER FAILURE: APPLYING THE PIRO CONCEPT Danielle Adebayo‚ Vincenzo Morabito‚ Rajiv Jalan Liver Failure Group‚ UCL Institute for Liver and Digestive Health‚ UCL Medical School‚ Royal Free Hospital‚ London‚ UK Disclosure: No potential conflict of interest Citation: EMJ Hepatol. 2013;1:38-43. ABSTRACT Acute-on-chronic liver failure (ACLF)‚ a clinical syndrome associated with a dismal prognosis‚ occurs acutely in previously stable cirrhotic patients. An important feature
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lo Background Acute glomerulonephritis refers to a specific set of renal diseases in which an immunologic mechanism triggers inflammation and proliferation of glomerular tissue that can result in damage to the basement membrane‚ mesangium‚ or capillary endothelium. Hippocrates originally described the manifestation of back pain and hematuria‚ which lead to oliguria or anuria. With the development of the microscope‚ Langhans was later able to describe these pathophysiologic glomerular changes
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the relationships between concepts. Within the mentioned theory‚ there are many propositions that can be established. One such proposition is that uncertainty in illness results from a lack of cognitive schema development when a person has an illness related event. Another proposition would be that individual cognitively process illness-related stimuli and structure meaning from the events (McEwen & Wills‚ p.243‚ 2014). It can also be said that changes in uncertainty occur over time‚ either creating
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