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ACL Reconstruction Surgery, Literature Review

This research paper pertains to anterior cruciate ligament (ACL) reconstructive knee surgery. Literature on this topic is reviewed...

Gage, Galton and Biopsychosocial Approach

This research paper concerns the biopsychosocial approach and the case of Phineas Gage and the theories of Francis Galton, which w...

Elective Surgery and Preoperative Anemia

There is a greater possibility of being transfused if the patient has anemia prior to surgery. There is a greater chance of compli...

Transamerica, a Film Review

This film review pertains to Transamerica (2005, directed by Duncan Tucker), which is the story of Sabrina "Bree" Osborne, a trans...

Cardiac Surgery in Africa

This paper discusses a documentary film that follows eight Rweandan children as they go to a hospital for cardiac surgery. The chi...

Personal Perspective on LASIK Surgery Pros and Cons

with adults at least age 21 who experience only minor visual distortion and who have no other eye problems (Cray et al., 1999). B...

Role of Nurses in Knee Replacement Surgery

degrees of restricted motion (Swank and Lehnert 631). Computer-assisted systems (CAS) have been developed to aid surgeons in obtai...

Senior Citizen Surgery Patients and Risk Assessment

planning for postoperative care (Dunn 36). For example, if a patient suffers from poor lung function, that patient is at greater r...

Adding MRI to the Orthopedic Practice

for its lack of market-changing competition (Porter and Teisberg, 2004), but competition exists nonetheless, if only indirectly. ...

Case Study/ICU Wound Mgmt

(Cardozo, 2003, p. S35). Within a few hours of being admitted to the ICU, Jacks condition was evaluated using the Waterlow risk as...

Laparoscopic Cholecystectomy - Case Study

problems?] The pharmacology interventions target the patients different health conditions, such as high blood pressure and high c...

Presurgical Anxiety Concept Analysis

like presurgical anxiety (Murphy, 1996). The total care coordinator identifies possible high-risk patients and supports the proce...

Adolescents and Pediatric Perioperative Nursing Interventions

an adolescent client (Wallis, 2004, p. 59). Data on the development of abstract reasoning skills, as well as of the "recognition o...

Article on Bypass Surgery Critiqued

which resulted in 47 practices taking part and two of these having two patients. The sample : 98 (75 male) consecutive patients w...

JCAHO Protocols and Wrong Site Surgery

site, taking into account "left/right distinction, multiple structures, and levels (as in spine surgery)" (Ritsma, 2004, p. 4). JC...

2000 Study 'Gender and Short-Term Recovery from Cardiac Surgery' Reviewed

(2000) reviews several reasons that women could have more difficulty in recovery - greater age at the time of surgery; increased c...

Plastic Surgery, Footbinding, and Violence Targeting Women

broken properly (Ping, 2002, p. 3). The practice existed in China for over 1,000 years, and spread from the imperial dynasty to ...

Surgery and Hypothermia

messages that initiate either warming or cooling responses to these deviations (Nicoll, 2002). Due to the fact that hypothermia ...

Nursing Theory and Pain Management

deal of pain likely will occur during the first 24 hours after surgery (Drakeford, Pettine, Brookshire and Ebert, 1991). Preventi...

Fighting Cardiac Disease

vulnerable to the condition. Such individuals can help by keeping their blood glucose levels as normal as possible because increas...

Surgery to Reduce Breast Size

In five pages female breast reduction surgery is considered in an overview of techniques, costs, and recovery with social implicat...

Coronary Artery Bypass Graft Surgery and Subsequent Depression

and in many varied settings; the studys authors were seeking to discover whether depression might have an effect on the cognitive ...

Nursing Theory Selection and Implementation

are, meaning that their immediate physical conditions affect the likelihood of success of the procedures they are about to undergo...

Knee Function and Changes Measurement

In a review of the dynamics of muscle interaction controlling the function of the knee, Klein (1990) explains that two muscle grou...

Overview of Robotics Surgery

help reduce doctors exposure to radiation, which can accumulate significantly over a long surgical career. Certain operations inv...

Nursing Diagnoses After Surgery

indwelling foley and compression boot. Her dressing is dry and intact. She was discharged with Percocet 5mg q6. Analysis and Out...

Obesity, Surgery for Weight Loss, and Their Psychological Impacts

may bear little resemblance to the overweight person from before. Many who have weight reduction surgery also feel that they are...

An Article on Back Surgery and Post Operative Pain Critiqued

control group received as much attention from nursing staff as the experimental groups (LaMontagne, et al, 2003). The interventi...

Post Colon Rectal Surgery and Early Feeding

following review will demonstrate, there are very positive effects for patients who have elective colon rectal surgeries who are f...

1994 Baby Deaths at Canada's Winnipeg Health Sciences Center

In seven pages this paper examines the post heart surgery deaths of 12 babies in this Canadian health care facility in a discussio...