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Weight Loss Surgeries: A Comparison

than an hour 2. 24 hours in the hospital. 3. Recovery period of 6 weeks. 4. Loss of work time of 1 week. B. Gastric Bypass 1. 2 h...

The Many Applications of Ultrasound in Surgery

is proving to be much more than a diagnostic medical imaging tool. It is finding more and more applications, in fact, in surgery....

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...

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...

ACL Reconstruction Surgery, Literature Review

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

Overview of Laparoscopic Surgery

the body and guide the instrument inserted through the other tubes. With these tiny tools, the surgeon can perform minor -- and in...

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...

Trauma Uses for Colloids and Crystalloids

Crystalloids and colloids are coming into use for trauma cases where fluids are being used for resuscitation. This paper gives a g...

Heart Surgery Research Article Assessments

to either the group receiving colloids or the group receiving crystalloids, the colloids group being the experimental group and th...

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...

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...

Bloodless Surgery Practice of Jehovah's Witnesses

all available strategies and methodologies to minimize blood loss; salvage as much of the patients own blood as possible; and also...

Overview of the Painful Condition Known as Venous Leg Ulcers

of a pulmonary embolus" are warning signs that his patient may experience venous leg ulcers (RCN Institute, 1998). Complicating f...

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...

Surgery and Hypothermia

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

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...

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 ...

Presurgical Anxiety Concept Analysis

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

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...

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...

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...

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...

Information on Statistics Selection

the center. These time records should include originating time; elapsed time between stages of the process of treating the patien...

Police Personality: Unique Traits Or Socialization And Experience?

and processes that are beneficial to understanding what has occurred and why. This leads directly to the final stage in the Kolb ...

Plastic Surgery in Contemporary Society

will not cover elective surgery, and so, those on the lower end of the economic spectrum cannot get a tummy tuck after their fifth...

Low Anterior Sigmoid Resection

and Cox, 2001; p. 375). The ascending colon, which is approximately six inches long, extends upward to the hepatic flexure....

Deep Wound Infection and Blood Glucose Levels: A Proposed Study

infections can, of course, relate to a number of factors. The type of care needed can vary both according to the type of wound an...

Deep Wound Infection and Blood Glucose Levels: A Proposed Study

not just in adverse impacts to the patients themselves but also in significant societal costs. Wounds that are improperly cared f...