Anemia: Low RBC and/or low HgB Causes: Hypoproliferative (not producing enough): Deficiencies‚ Cancer. Hemolytic (destruction of): Disease‚ hyperslenism‚ mech. Heart valves. Blood loss. S/S: Fatigue‚ weakness‚ malaise‚ pallor‚ jaundice‚ cardiac and respiratory symptoms‚ tongue/nail changes‚ pica‚ Nail changes‚ angular cheilosis (cracks at corners of mouth) PT w/ hypothytoid may be asymptomatic. PT w/ CV or Pulmonary disease may have severe symptoms. Elderly: More pronounced
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Maternity Test 2 A woman who is pregnant for the third time is referred to as a: Multigravida A woman who is 8 weeks pregnant has a daughter age 5 and a son age 2. Previously‚ she had a spontaneous abortion at 12 weeks’ gestation. Therefore‚ she is gravida _4____‚ para ___2__. A woman’s last normal menstrual period began July 4. Using Nägele’s rule‚ what would be her estimated date of delivery? April 11 A woman comes to the physician’s office because she has missed a menstrual period
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FUNDAMENTALS OF NURSING R.L.E. MIDTERMS BODY MECHANICS AIM: “Comfort and safety of the patient.” Objectives: 1. To assist in safely mobilizing client 2. To prevent fatigue and injury 3. To maintain good body posture and in performing mechanical procedures. SITTING INSTRUCTIONS: a. Place feet flat on the floor b. Popliteal space is 1 inch from the edge of the chair c. Thighs 90° to the legs d. Hips against back of the chair e. Square the shoulders f. Hold
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Running head: CASE STUDY: MERCK & COMPANY: THE VIOXX RECALL Merck & Company: The Vioxx Recall Albert Balogun California Baptist University BUS 520A: Managerial Ethics Jim Bishop‚ PhD June 30‚ 2010 Merck & Company: The Vioxx Recall The issues involved in Merck‚ a pharmaceutical manufacturing company’s recall of one its products‚ Vioxx‚ is the effect of direct-to-consumer (DTC) advertising of prescription drug on the society public
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13-year-old female patient initially inpatient treated at a peripheral Children’s Hospital with respiratory symptoms since a few days as part of an infection of the upper airways. Rapid respiratory worsening in the clinical course with the need for intubation. Influenza A was positively detected. During the intubation a temporary resuscitation was needed. Continuously increasing of catecholamine and ventilation requirements post intubation (PIP = 40 cmH2O‚ PEEP = 15 cmH2O‚ FiO2 = 100%). For an escalation
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saved more lives than any other drug ever discovered by man. However‚ it does not necessarily imply that antibiotics do not possess the flip side. It has been demonstrated that antibiotics indiscriminately wipe out both normal and abnormal gastrointestinal and vulvo- vaginal flora. Human overuse as well as the widespread use of antibiotics has been responsible for the co-resistance and cross resistance to multiple antibiotics. This paper is a concise exposition of the effects of prolonged
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plasminogen inactivators Indications • IV: Prevention or reduction of hemorrhage during and following dental surgery in hemophiliacs. • PO: Treatment of cyclic heavy menstrual bleeding. Action Inhibits activation of plasminogen‚ thereby preventing the conversion of plasminogen to plasmin. Therapeutic Effect(s): • Decreased bleeding following dental surgery in hemophiliacs. • Reduced need for replacement therapy. • Reduced menstrual blood loss. Pharmacokinetics Absorption: 100% bioavailable with
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caught the leg in his manure spreader‚ sustaining a deep‚ crushing‚ grossly dirty injury. His wife cleaned the wound as well as she could with soap and water‚ dressed it with clean gauze‚ and wrapped it tightly with an elastic bandage to stop the bleeding. The second day they redressed the wound and applied triple antibiotic ointment. The patient treated his pain with ibuprofen (Advil). He reported the pain was not very bad for the first 72 hours. In the past 24 hours‚ the leg swelled and the mottling
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1) Anatomy & Physiology 227 Spring 2012 Dr Sheila M Wicks Take Home Exam Chapters 23 & 24 100 points Due April 8 Critical Thinking Clinical Questions Sami has been hospitalized with acute gastritis. Her symptoms were epigastric pressure (just above the stomach)‚ headache‚ nausea‚ and vomiting. She revealed that she had been suffering back pain and drank four shots of gin and took three aspirin to "kill the pain." What led the physician to make this diagnosis‚ and
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Engineering in Medicine and Biology Society‚ 2009. EMBC 2009. Annual International Conference of the IEEE ) Wireless capsule endoscopy (WCE) has been a breakthrough in recent medical technology. It is used to view the gastrointestinal tract and detect abnormalities such as bleeding‚ Crohn’s disease‚ peptic ulcers‚ and colon cancer. In this paper data mining techniques are utilized to extract useful information from a dataset of abnormal regions and non-abnormal regions. More specifically‚ the dataset
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