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Health Overview of High Blood Pressure

is the number one killer in the United States (Sullivan and Sullivan, 1997). When death does not occur, coronary disease has nume...

A Leukemia Consideration

broad term. There are four broad categories of Leukemia, but there are subcategories as well. Acute lymphocytic or lymphoblastic ...

Overview of Sickle Cell Anemia

patterns have lead researchers to conclude that a cure is looming in the not too distant future. But will it come in time, the stu...

Appendicitis Diagnosis and Computerized Tomography Scans

prior to patient/surgeon consultation (Lee, Walsh, and Ho, 2001). In reality, such approaches are limited given that the most acc...

Appendicitis and CT Scans

of Computerized Tomography Scans (CT) in diagnosing abdominal conditions is highly debated. Baker emphasizes that the procedure p...

Overview of Leukemia

children (Steen and Mirro 14). This suggests different causes of adult and childhood cancer, something that could in fact be a s...

Mood Disorders Diagnosis and Treatment

suffer from bipolar disorders (Simon, 2001). For those who do not respond well to the traditional medications offered to stabiliz...

Pediatric Patient Catheterization

Sometimes just the opposite can occur and the bladder does not empty like it should, if at all. Other problems that seem to be ass...

Domestic Violence and Community Health Nursing

domestic violence is to, first of all, screen for domestic violence with all injured patients. When screening for abuse, Flitcraft...

Kwashiorkor Form of Malnutrition

Mehl? hrschaden (Hait, 2001). The reason it is called the disease of the elder child is due to the fact that the mothers milk is ...

Emergency Diagnosis and Intervention Relating to Myocardial Infarction

The statistics regarding coronary artery disease make it obvious that emergency medical services are critical in saving the lives ...

Diagnosis and Treatment of Placenta Disorders

be accounted for approximately 15 percent of perinatal mortality (Angelini and Menihan, 1996). The diagnosis of placental ...

Hypertension Caused by Pregnancy

of pregnancies, pending on the population and the definitions used (Walker, 2000). Hypertension in pregnancy is typically classi...

Children and Meningitis

sets in (which is actually blood poisoning) that a rash, not unlike that, that one might get from an acute case of poison ivy or p...

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...

Overview of Congestive Heart Failure

primary function is to "pump blood coming into the ventricles from the lower pressure venous system against the higher pressure ar...

Medicine and Culture: Varieties of Treatment in the United States, England, West Germany, and France by Lynn Payer

between the patient and physician (technology, caring and values) are always present but may differ in balance. In addition, the r...

Examination of Gout

1995; Flieger, 1995). The body converts these substances to uric acid through metabolism. Approximately two thirds of the uric a...

Living a Normal Life with Schizophrenia

stress and/or have substance and alcohol abuse. Some people are able to recover completely from schizophrenia while other may have...

Food-Borne Illnesses From Listeriosis Bacteria

"special life style," which enables this bacterium to escape from phagosome and circulating antibodies (Jin, 2002). One of the pri...

Overview of Microsporidiosis

AIDS sufferers, with an incidence rate of between 7% - 50% (Lores et al, 2002). However, it is not isolated to this group, the fir...

Analysis of Alan Lightman's “The Diagnosis”

has a serious neurological breakdown of his own. Bill has a sudden and disturbing memory loss - he is unable to remember the name...

Consideration of Bipolar Disorder

used to describe common patterns within bipolar disorder such as bipolar I disorder where a person may experience manic or mixed e...

Burnout of Nurses

profession" and so individuals are susceptible, the current structure in medicine has exacerbated the stress. Cutbacks at hospital...

Nursing Diagnosis and Body Image Disturbance Case Study

has focused on two corollary components: 1. the accuracy of body size estimations and 2. the attitudes and feelings individuals ...

Symptoms Prior to Diagnosing Childhood Onset Bipolar Disorder

around 8 or 9 oclock at night, depending on their age. So they have a lot of trouble getting to sleep, and there is a tendency fo...

Ventricular Flow Assessment

was the patient lying unable to move, either conscious or unconscious. When writing his own paper, the student should note that t...

Overview of Meningitis

to all children as part of their routine immunizations have reduced the occurrence of invasive disease due to H. influenzae. To...

Environmental Health and Asbestosis

Lung Disease Surveillance Report, 1996). This is true of the UK and the international environment, and is due to the delay between...

Teen Child of an Alcoholic Case Study

sleeping. Don - who was sleeping off his own hangover - mustered what can be termed as an adrenaline rush of energy and after a b...