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Guillain-Barre Syndrome: Case Report

neck & trunk involvement and vomiting (two-and-a-half year old); tripping, voice change, difficulty swallowing, inability to sit u...

Symptoms and Treatment of Methicillin-Resistant Staphylococcus Aureus

Cellulitis is an "infection of the skin"; boils are "pus-filled infections of hair follicles"; abscesses are "collections of pus u...

Strict Glycemic Control and the Prevention of Deep Wound Infections in Open Heart Surgery Patients: Proposed Research

in their glycemic index, present many concerns in the post operative environment. This is particularly true for patients that are...

An Article Review on HIV/AIDS

virus they can be treated with new medications. The facts regarding HIV and AIDS are unfortunately much more disturbing. First, ...

AIDS

a HIV virus is ready to duplicate it forms long precursor chains of polyproteins which split, under the direction of another enzym...

Study Proposal on UTIs and Cranberries

and a hypothesis as well as a sampling design, data analysis plan and how the data will be collected. A statement of data analysis...

Dressings and Prevention of Infections Related to Catheters

risk of such infections. The CDC reports that the incidence of both local and bloodstream infections associated with peripheral ...

Long Term Health Care Facilities and Nosocomial UTI Infections

there was a problem of infections in long-term care facilities and in hospitals (Dimond, 1994). These are called nosocomial infect...

Assessiing Chlamydia and Intervention Options

and treatments which are necessitated by the venereal disease Chlamydia. The venereal disease Chlamydia presents a number o...

Examination of Congestive Heart Failure

The link between behavioral components and risk factors has been a major element in the focus on nursing paradigms and treatment p...

Causes and Prevention of Nosocomial Infections

In five pages this report discusses nosocomial infections that can occur in a clinical or hospital setting in a consideration of c...

UTIs and Cranberries

In a paper consisting of five pages this paper discusses how cranberries can be used to prevent urinary tract infections. Six sou...

Overview of Histoplasmosis Capsulatum

of inhaled spores and strength of the immune system. Fortunately, the organism does not spread from person to person, so you canno...

2001 Newspaper Research on Anthrax

question to be asked is, "What exactly is anthrax?" The proper medical term for anthrax is Bacillus anthracis, which is the Greek...

Overview of Skin Disorders

and keratin fragments to adhere to the sebum and block the follicle opening. Bacteria trapped with free fatty acids within the fo...

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...

How to Utilize Databases

This paper pertains to the health challenge inherent in hospital acquired infection and focuses on the process of searching databa...

Nosocomial Capstone Project, Theory

This paper describes Jean Watson's Theory of Transpersonal Caring as the theoretical foundation for a project on the problems of n...

Decreasing Nosocomial Infection Rates,Hand Hygiene,

This research paper presents project, which is designed to decrease the ratite of nosocomial, that is, hospital-acquired infection...

Mucor Infection, Pneumonia

This research paper presents information relevant to a patient for whom mucor infection has progressed to pneumonia. Lab results a...

Total Joint Patients, Decreasing Infections

This research paper pertains to decreasing surgical site infections in total joint arthroplasty patients. The writer draws on rese...

Minority Populations, HIV Intervention

This paper is comprised of two parts, with each part discussing aspects of the high prevalence of HIV infection among Hispanic/La...

Article Review, Morris and Tay (2008)

This article review provides a summary and evaluation of Morris and Tay (2008), which refers to procedures associated with insert...

Reducing Central Line Infections

blood stream infection (BSI) (CVC, 2005). *The Central Line (CL) Bundle, developed by the Institute for Healthcare Improvement (...

UTI's Planning Health Program

rates per 100,000 by ethnicity in San Francisco are reported as: African-American, 1,302; Asian/Pacific Islander, 446; Latino, 535...

UTIs Pressure Sores Pneumonia in the Elderly

higher risk for UTIs than others. Risks include older age, poor hygiene, and/or poor hydration. Two of the greatest risks can be p...

MRSA Crisis, Management Issues

This research paper discusses management of MRSA infection within a medical/surgical unit. Three pages in length, three sources ar...

A Proposal to Assess Measures to Prevent Infection for ERSD Patients

In a paper of five pages, the author reflects on the use of methods to reduce infection for patients with End Stage Renal Disease....

Vulvovaginal Candidiasis, an Overview

This research paper presents an overview of diagnosis and treatment for vaginitis, focusing specifically on infection caused by vu...

Babesia Microti Overview

In a paper of seven pages, the writer looks at babesia microti. Causes of infection and treatment are analyzed. Paper uses five so...