Mrs. P. V.‚ a 50-year-old‚ African American female with a diagnosis of sepsis. She had a history of various medical conditions‚ including diabetes mellitus‚ leucopenia‚ orthostatic hypotension‚ HIV‚ and end stage renal disease. She had all toes amputated on he left foot and an index finger on her left arm. Mrs. P. V. is also a dialysis patient‚ who visits Inpatient Dialysis Unit at the SGMC. She was sent to the ED from Inpatient Dialysis Unit for altered mental status with somnolence‚ low blood pressure
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Chapter 2- Neuroscience and biological foundations Glial Cells (three types): Make up about 90% of the brain’s total cells. They also supply nutrients and oxygen‚ perform clean up tasks‚ and insulate one neuron from another so that their neural messages are not scrambled. Oligodedreocytes: helps to create the myelin sheath. Purpose speed up communication in the brain. Insulate axons. Makes Neural transmissions. Microglia: Special immune cells in the brain. They can detect unhealthy and damaged
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Access to an EpiPen is getting more difficult for people of lower income. Parents are having to decide whether to pay bills or to protect their children from death by anaphylactic shock. An EpiPen is just “$1 or so worth of epinephrine that is used in the auto-injection device. That device itself is believed to cost just several more dollars to make.”3 The EpiPen is overpriced and restricts accessibility to those who may have inexpensive insurance‚ can’t afford the out of pocket
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(luh-BET-uh-lol) BRAND NAMES: Normodyne‚ Trandate DRUG CLASS AND MECHANISM: Labetalol is a drug that is used for treating high blood pressure. Nerves from the adrenergic nervous system travel from the spinal cord to arteries where they release norepinephrine. Norepinephrine attaches to adrenergic receptors on arteries and causes the arteries to contract‚ narrowing the arteries‚ and increasing blood pressure. Labetalol blocks receptors of the adrenergic nervous system. When labetalol attaches to and blocks
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Attention Deficit Hyperactivity Disorder: Should Stimulant Medications be used to treat our Children? What is Attention deficit Hyperactivity Disorder? With no cure for ADHD‚ stimulant medication should be considered for the overall management of the disruptive symptoms associated with the Attention Deficit Hyperactivity Disorder Attention Deficit Hyperactivity Disorder (ADHD) is the most common mental health problem in children. Children with ADHD often have problems with attention span‚ hyperactivity
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Peanut Allergies Axia College of University of Phoenix COM 125 May 20‚ 2007 Peanut Allergies Peanut allergies are the most common allergies among all the food allergies. Peanut allergies are also the most severe among all of the food allergies. The problem is that many children in America and all across the world love to eat food that contains peanuts. Johnson Publishing Co said‚ “the peanut allergy in children‚ considered to be one of the most severe food reactions‚ presents
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2014 V for Vendetta & Amontillado Comparison Essay: Everything psychological is biological. Dopamine is released when one’s content; Oxytocin when one’s around the people they love. Despite these powerful emotions‚ Epinephrine could rise above all (Butler‚ 2014). Epinephrine is released when one experiences vast amounts of anger. It triggers a fighting response‚ a suppressive‚ addictive feeling of change for a greater good. Activation of such feeling is not complex. In the movie V for Vendetta
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serotonin reptake inhibitor (SSRIs). The side effects for these are decreased sexual desire‚ as well as delayed orgasm. Serotonin and norepinephrine reuptake inhibitors (SNRIs) can be used as well‚ and their side effects are increased perspiring‚ dry mouth‚ fast heart rate as well as constipation. Another medication that can be used for depression is Norepinephrine and dopamine reuptake inhibitors (NDRIs)‚ which have the side effect of increase risk for seizures. They also use different forms of antidepressants
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Cardiovascular Disease Ashley Cookie Cardiac Arrest Mr. Stapleton November 20th‚ 2012 Would you like to feel or be close to death? How would you like to have your heart pump rapidly out of control? A cardiac Arrest is the absence of ventricular contraction that results in systemic circulatory failure. A Cardiac Arrest is something that can happen out of nowhere without you knowing. You can be cooking and you just collapse and go into Cardiac Arrest. It’s that easy!
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Unit 80 Outcome 1 1.1 Understand the legislative framework for the use of medication in social care settings. 1. Identify legislation that governs the use of medication in social care settings. The Medicines Act 1968 The Misuse of Drugs Act 1971 (and later amendments) The Misuse of Drugs (Safe Custody) Regulations 1973 (and later amendments) The Health and Safety at Work Act (1974)‚ COSHH The Mental Capacity Act (2005) The Access to health records Act (1990)‚ The Data Protection Act (1998) plus
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