of asthma. These evaluations obtain a history from the athlete‚ such as symptoms that they may experience‚ family history of asthma‚ or personal history of allergies or allergic rhinitis. However‚ because history alone is not always reliable‚ there are lung function tests used to determine if an athlete has asthma including spirometry testing‚ challenge testing‚ stress electrocardiogram‚ or upper airway laryngoscopy. (Miller‚ et al.‚ 2005) Lung function tests are necessary to determine asthma severity
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research a topic‚ how to references sources I used‚ how to create a table of contents and how a word document should be structured. I have outlined what overall good health is and how to achieve good healt a disease in which I want to foucs on is Asthma. Terms of Reference The objective of this case study is to research food‚ health and wellbeing. I want to discover what
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Andre is a 69 year old man who was diagnosed with pancreatic cancer. Andre owns a chain of Italian restaurants and his well known in the community. Ander is married and has a large family including children‚ grandchildren and great grandchildren. Every holiday the family gets treated to a family home cook out and Andre prepare himself. Andre is concern this year that he may not be able to cook for the upcoming event so Andre is feeling depressed. Pancreatic cancer begins in the tissues of the pancreas
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Medical Surgical Nursing 2 Date: November 6‚ 2012 Name: Judine Douglas ID#: 3111-0427 Respiratory System The primary function of the respiratory system is to supply the blood with oxygen in order for the blood to deliver oxygen to all parts of the body. The respiratory system does this through breathing. When we breathe‚ we inhale oxygen and exhale carbon dioxide. This exchange of gases is the respiratory system’s means of getting oxygen to the blood. What makes up the Respiratory System
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Asthma Teaching Principles I am to conduct a family teaching session. How I describe the content‚ including the pathophysiology‚ to a patient depends on the patient’s level of education and experience with asthma. Is this a new diagnosis for this patient? Is this diagnosis new for this family? Is the patient a healthcare professional or in the case of a child‚ are the parent’s healthcare professionals? Patients learn the best when they are
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Nearly 10 percent of children in the United States suffer from asthma‚ according to the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention. Dealing with a chronic health condition like asthma has several significant effects on a child’s lifestyle. Childhood should be fun and carefree‚ but kids with asthma have to take on some very big worries and responsibilities. They need to learn which symptoms and events are likely to trigger an attack‚ such as cold weather‚ exercise‚ stressful situations and exposure
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Health disorders such as diabetes and asthma affect some members of my family. Without the use of animals in medical research‚ certain medications and treatments would be useless to humans. My youngest brother suffers from severe bronchiole asthma. The animals involved in research for the treatment of asthma include steers and guinea pigs. For example‚ the adrenal glands of steers produce epinephrine. Epinephrine is a neurotransmitter used in the treatment of asthma. The controlling hormone‚ ACTH‚ found
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Breathe Easy: A Health Promotion Model On Asthma Management In School Age (7-11 Year Old) Children Introduction Health is the state of complete physical‚ mental and social well-being‚ not merely the absence of disease or infirmity (from WHO‚ 1946‚ in Park‚ 2005) and Health Promotion has been defined as an enterprise involving the development over time‚ in individuals and communities‚ of basic and positive states of and conditions for physical‚ mental and social health (Raeburn and Rootman‚ 1998
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enable the diagnosis of these physiological disorders and assess possible difficulties involved in the diagnosis of the disorders from their signs and symptoms. P1 The two physiological disorders that I am going to talk about are Diabetes and Asthma. Diabetes: What is diabetes? Diabetes is when your body does not make enough insulin or cannot use its own insulin as well as it should. Insulin is a hormone and also a protein‚ which is made by the cells within the pancreas. This causes the
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Asthma Case Study A 37 y/o black female with a history of asthma‚ presents to the ER with tachypnea‚ and acute shortness of breath with audible wheezing. Patient has taken her prescribed medications of Cromolyn Sodium and Ventolin at home with no relief of symptoms prior to coming to the ER. A physical exam revealed the following: HR 110‚ RR 40 with signs of accessory muscle use. Ausculation revealed decreased breath sounds with inspiratory and expiratory wheezing and pt was coughing up small amounts
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