Endotracheal Suctioning
.... tube prior to suctioning has on a patient’s oxygen saturation. Oxygen saturation (SpO2) is defined according to Taber's (1993) as “the ratio of amount of oxygen present in a known volume of blood to amount of oxygen that could be carried by that volume of blood” (p. 1398). Ackerman (1993), primarily concentrated on the measurement of SpO2 via a pulse oximeter monitor was the focus of the review. Such research will aid nurses and respiratory therapists with their decision of choosing whether to use no .....
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Different Life Crises Have Different Impacts
.... of means by which the elderly may give way to in order not to become overwhelmed with the changes.
Different life crises have different impacts. In many cases, however, it may be possible to anticipate crises and prepare for them. It may also be useful to recognize the impact of crises that have occurred so that one can take account of them appropriately. Holmes and Rahe with the Social Readjustment Scale have done some very interesting work in this area. This allocates a number of “Life Crisis Units .....
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Anorexia Nervosa
.... for someone who develops the disorder to starve itself, until she weighs just 60 or 70 pounds. Throughout the starvation process, the patients either deny being hungry or claim to have full stomach after eating just a few bites.
This disease occurs at any stage of development, but emerges first in adolescence. Recent estimates suggest that out of every 200 American girls between the ages of 12 and 18, one will develop anorexia to some degree. While most anorexia nervosa patients are female, about 6 per .....
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Huntington's Disease
.... Huntington's gene, his/her offspring have a 50/50 chance of also developing the disease.
Until 20 or so years ago, very little was known and very little literature was available pertaining to Huntington's Disease, but recently all that has changed. In 1993 the gene that causes HD was discovered and from that great progress has been made. While no cure yet exists, there is a large push in research to develop one. In most cases Huntington's patients can maintain independence for several years after the .....
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Down Syndrome
.... common features associated with Down syndrome include low muscle tone (babies appear “floppy”), flat facial features, with a small nose, upward slant to the eyes, small skin folds on the inner corner of the eyes, small, abnormally shaped ears, single deep crease across the center of the palm, hyperflexibility, fifth finger has only one flexion furrow instead of two, extra space between the big toe and the second toe, or enlarged tongue
As many as 50 percent of the children with Down syndrome are also bo .....
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Ebola: A Contagious Trend
.... of organs, whether it is human or animal, Ebola Reston does not seem pose a threat to humans in any way.
“Ebola viruses are spread though direct contact with a person who is very ill with the disease. Usually wide-spread action of the virus takes place among hospital care workers or family members who were aiding an infected person.” Ebola can spread by the reuse of hypodermic needles, which occurs frequently in under-developed countries like Zaire and Sudan, but it is not likely to be infected by cl .....
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Fibromyalgia Syndrome
.... fatigue” in which patients feel totally drained of energy. This can lead to difficulty concentrating. Most fibromyalgia patients have an associated sleep disorder called the alpha-EEG anomaly. This condition was uncovered in a sleep lab with the aid of a machine which recorded the brain waves of patients during sleep. Researchers found that fibromyalgia syndrome patients could fall asleep without much trouble, but their deep level (or stage 4) sleep was constantly interrupted by bursts of awake-like .....
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Eating Disorders
.... deal with them read this paper and find out for yourself. Just remember if you suffer from an Eating Disorder there is still hope for you and recovery. Although if you want to become a statistic you go right ahead and do so, but your hurting yourself and the ones that love you and care about you the most. Eating Disorders do KILL! As you will soon find out.
Eating Disorders are not the disease that you want to play around with, they are very dangerous, and can have a harsh effect on you and on your life. .....
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Birth Control At Schools
.... schools may have a negative effect on the way young adults view sex. In high school, young adult's emotions and feelings are still very immature; therefore, passing out condoms may be promoting teenagers to have sex. Parents think giving free condoms to children sends mixed messages on what to think about sex education or how to have sex.
Promoting safe sex and distributing free condoms in high schools are great ways to control the rampant spread of sexually transmitted diseases and high levels of tee .....
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Adolescent Depression - The Under Acknowledged Disease
.... gloomy thoughts, and heightened sensitivity. It is a time of rebellion and experimentation. Blackman (1996) observed that the "challenge is to identify depressive symptomatology which may be superimposed on the backdrop of a more transient, but expected, developmental storm." Therefore, diagnosis should not lay only in the physician's hands but be associated with parents, teachers and anyone who interacts with the patient on a daily basis.
Unlike adult depression, symptoms of youth depression are often .....
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Treating Bulimia
.... serious condition and treatment typically involves years, not months. Some people expect that when the eating disturbance goes away, psychotherapy is over. This is not true. The process of psychotherapy helps a person resolve the emotional dilemmas that led them to food in the first place. This part of treatment fully begins when the eating itself is less of an issue. Then a psychotherapist deals with the psychological aspects of the disease.
When someone enters therapy, it does not necessarily mean .....
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Eating Disorders
.... lack self-esteem and feel that they can gain admiration by losing weight and becoming thin. The patients will deny being hungary or claim to be full after eating only a few bites of a meal. Dangerous signs of a person with anorexia are hair loss on the head, fainting spells, heart tremors, shortness of breath, constipation, compulsive exercising, intense fear of weight gain, cold hands and feet, dry and scaly skin, depression, a lack of sexual interest, anxiety, weakness, and exhaustion. Certain endoc .....
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Faith Healing
.... cure two blind men. The bible says "Two blind men were sitting by the side of the road and heard Jesus going by they shouted, 'lord have mercy on us'…Jesus felt sorry for the blind men and touched their eyes. At once they could see"(Lucado). Jesus healed to prove that he was the son of God. He healed to show people true miracles, healed to show people that God was real. By showing people concrete evidence of God’s existence and power, Jesus was able to gain many followers.
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Should Steroids Be Banned From Society?
.... steroids cause minimal deaths in our society, banning of steroids is purely justified because steroids have extremely perilous side effects on the unsuspecting user.
Though steroids are known as a somewhat dangerous substance, they are legal to possess and consume, and there has not been a true clinical study that proves such possible side effects are linked to medical problems of steroid users. Sure, there has been several cases where someone has died and an autopsy showed the person was using steroi .....
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Depression
.... misunderstood and stigmatized as a "character flaw" rather than being more correctly perceived as a recognized illness.
Depressed? Sometimes it's hard to know what depression really is because it has become such a sweeping term, being used to describe everything from deep grief to daily frustrations. But to start with the most rigorous definition, Western psychiatry has a fairly standardized way of diagnosing depression. Coming from the "Diagnostic and Statistical Manual of Mental Disorders of the .....
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