...The genetic screening for newborns is designed to quickly identify genetic disorders and conditions, and to provide rapid treatment that may hinder normal development. Screening involves a blood test that is collected within the first 24 to 48 hours of life. The blood collected is sent to the laboratory for analysis; pediatricians and parents (if requested) receive the results. Abnormal results are brought to the attention of the physician, and testing is repeated to confirm the diagnosis. The technologies used in the screening process are tandem mass spectrometry and MS/MS, both technologies are able to screen for over thirty disorders. Tandem mass spectrometry has been used for many years, but the MS/MS technology has been introduced within the last few years to identify both drugs and genetic disorders in the newborns. The...
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...Genetic screenings by definition, it’s a systematic search for individual with a specific genotype (Kjono, 1997, p. 1-5). Which intern assist the health care provider and give an opportunity to alter the human genotype ,usual take place in groups those who are under risk .Thus advancement in technology and scientific knowledge assist individuals to learn about their chances to get genetic diseases and to understand the environment interaction how it affects their health. Research indicates that understanding of the diseases susceptibility assist them for risk reduction behaviors as well provide better control over their life. Same like other tests genetic screening and testing has its own pros and cons. Some of the benefits include same like...
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...Running head: GENETIC DISEASE DIAGNOSIS, SCREENING, TREATMENT Genetic Disease Diagnosis, Screening, Treatment, Advocacy and Decision Making Linda Jefferson Western Governors University Contemporary Nursing Issues GNT1 December 16, 2012 Genetic Disease Diagnosis, Screening, Treatment, Advocacy and Decision Making Generally speaking, a pregnancy in today’s society is met with varying emotions ranging from devastation and fear to joy and excitement. Some expectant parents have conceived on accident, some carefully planned. Some expectant parents have conceived with no problems; while others have had difficulty. These parents often find themselves trying different methods and spending a great deal of their finances to increase their chances of conceiving. With that being the case, it is often devastating to finally conceive and find out that your child has a birth defect or a disease such as Tay Sachs. Tay Sachs is a genetic condition, usually found in Caucasians, and primarily those of Jewish descent, and develops in 25% of cases when both parents carry the recessive gene (National Tay-Sachs and Allied Diseases [NTSAD], n.d.). It’s a neurological disorder that effects brain development. Development of infants afflicted with this disease appears normal at first but soon deterioration of the child’s mental and physical abilities becomes apparent. This deterioration continues until most children afflicted with Tay-Sachs lose their battle for life...
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...Nicolas Moy Dr. Sheila Abraham BIOL 2633 01 March 2, 2012 DVD Project “Who’s Afraid of Designer Babies? The Ethics of Genetic Screening” An Australian family with a son diagnosed with a rare disease called “Hyper IGM” which essentially is a congenital condition in which a person is born with a vital piece of his/her immune system missing requiring that they receive constant blood transfusions. In this case, the couple goes through a PGD procedure making another child with no disease to cure the oldest child. This procedure of PGD to identify a unimpaired embryo Summary Leanne and Stephen, the Australian couple are in desperate search for a cure to treat their son, BJ’ fatal disease in which doctors determined that the medical name of BJ’s disease is called “Hyper IGM” which is a rare disease, actually, so rare that 2 out of every million children born are diagnosed with this condition. Using PGD (Pre-implantation Genetic Diagnosis), doctors who specialize in assisted reproduction helped Leanne and Stephen in the journey to find a solution to their child’s issue. The plan would be to essentially create a “extra-parts baby” by testing for a disease-free and HLA matching embryo. If successful, this would procedure would use the blood tissue from the newborn to cure BJ. Of course, once this case hit the public ethical debates arise. One very predominant argument was whether by allowing this couple to proceed with this procedure for therapy, this could potentially...
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...men 2. Men who are older than 60 3. Men who have a father or brother with prostate cancer f. Other People at risk 1. Men who have been around Agent Orange, paint, cadmium, tire plant and other toxic chemicals 2. Men who use too much alcohol 3. Men who eat a diet high in fat, especially animal fat g. Preventive Guidelines 1. Choose a healthy diet 2. Maintain a healthy weight 3. Exercise most days of the week 4. Talk to your doctor about your risk 5. Relax and enjoy life 6. Avoid smoking for many reasons 7. Seek medical treatment for stress, high blood pressure, high cholesterol, and depression h. Pints for Prostate Campaign i. Question 2 for audience participation j. Screening recommendations 1. Digital rectal exam (DRE) 2. Prostate-specific antigen test (PSA) k. Risks when screening for prostate cancer 1. Finding prostate cancer may not improve health or help a man live longer 2. Follow-up tests, such as a biopsy, may be done to diagnose cancer 3. False-negative test results can occur 4. False-positive test results can occur l. Earliest signs and symptoms of Prostate Cancer 1. Trouble Urinating 2. Erection Difficulties 3. Blood in the Urine or Semen 4. Lower Back and Body Pain m. Talk to Your Friends About Prostate Cancer Video n. References III. Conclusion a. Prostate Cancer Information Handouts to audience from American Cancer Society b. Prostate Cancer Presentation Quiz c. Question and...
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...problems arose that needed to be handled immediately. BACKGROUND Carl Robins, a new recruiter for ABC, Inc. hired 15 new trainees in early April to work for Operations Supervisor Monica Carrolls. Mr. Robins could not accomplish the necessary procedures for the new hires to begin work, including drug screenings, completing applications, providing materials and scheduling a facility in which to hold the new hires’ training. Monica Carrolls did contact Mr. Robins May 15 in regard to his responsibility in the hiring process, without verifying if he fully understood his duties, Mr. Robins did not give any indication he was having trouble completing the tasks either. Mr. Robins failed to have a current orientation manual on hand himself and previous employees had failed to keep a current master copy. KEY PROBLEMS Mr. Robins needs to address several problems to resolve the issue in order to meet his goal of having the new hires working by July. The key problems needed to be overcome before the new hires are to report to Mrs. Carrolls are the following four obstacles. First the incomplete trainee applications and transcripts files. Secondly the mandatory drug screenings were not scheduled. Thirdly incomplete orientation manuals must be handled. Lastly he must resolve the facility scheduling conflict. ALTERNATIVES With incomplete applications and transcripts on file, Mr....
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...Do the benefits of routine cancer screening outweigh the drawbacks? Living in the twenty-first century with all the medical technology available you would think one would be indestructible. Am I right? Scientist keeps coming up with cures, and modern machines seem to detect diseases early on. Or do they? Have you ever been given bad news just to find out later it was false? This has happened to most all of us sometime in our life. Somebody is being told today they have cancer. They have instantly been thrown into a sea of emotions, caught and knocked down by every wave of evil thought. They are eventually relieved that they had denied treatment only after finding out the test was wrong. All the worry this family went through could have been avoided. Some would go ahead with treatment, finding out later that they shouldn’t have. Don’t get me wrong, it is a great benefit to have all the modern updates of medical science at our fingertips. But, have we come to rely on the answers of machines rather than our own self-exams and our own intuition? Instead of being on a roller coaster of emotions, or taking dangerous amounts of unnecessary treatments, shouldn’t we wait until there’s a reason for concern and then use the force of science to combat the enemy? Until the ratio of routine screenings rise to meet a level of accuracy, I feel they are hardly as necessary as one is lead to believe. Routine cancer screenings bring too many false positives with premature and over...
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...example is the most feared form of skin cancer: melanoma. Melanoma rates have gone up since the late 1980s. Most of the increase is in early cancers detected as skin-exam screening became more common. But late-stage melanoma cases didn't decline, Kramer says. Neither did the death rate. Brawley agrees. "I cannot quote a study showing that melanoma screening definitely saves lives," he says. "We cure some melanomas that don't need to be cured. “Nobody wants to live with cancer. Nobody wants to be over diagnosed or over treated. It's just that we want -- need -- answers that medical science does not yet have. "What we really need is a 21st century definition of cancer so we can move away from 20th century screening and diagnosis using a 1840s definition of cancer," Brawley says. There are limits to science, says Susan G. Fisher, PhD, professor and chair of public health sciences at the University of Rochester, N.Y. "People are uncomfortable and concerned because they think we are recommending less screening in some groups," she says. "The message for the public is that science is hard. As we get more and more information we get smarter about our advice. The most recent evidence says that in groups at low risk, we are creating more problems than benefits with early screening." The USPSTF recommends routine screening -- that is, for people at normal risk -- for only three...
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...As you complete your weekly reading, answer the questions below. | Please review the following writing guidelines prior to answering the questions: * Remember to respond to the questions using your own words. * Do NOT copy responses from the textbook, internet or other resources. This is plagiarism, which is illegal, and may result in a failing grade. * You MUST paraphrase information in your own words and not transfer word-for-word. * For information on how to avoid plagiarism, please visit the Writing Center in the Student Success Center. | (Scroll to the next page to view the questions for this assignment) After reading the assigned pages in your textbook, answer the following questions. | 80 points | | 1. Provide the correct Evaluation and Management code for initial hospital care with comprehensive history and examination level and a moderate medical decision making complexity.992222. Provide the correct code Evaluation and Management for a 35 year old patient seen in the critical care unit for 55 minutes on November 5.992913. Identify the correct Evaluation and Management code for a physician who provided an initial comprehensive preventative examination to a 6 year old.993834. Identify the correct Evaluation and Management code for a previously seen 14 year old receiving a periodic comprehensive preventative examination.993945. New patient and ____________________ are the subcategories in the Office and Other Outpatient Services category.Establish...
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...it may not cause serious harm. While some types of prostate cancer grow slowly and may need minimal or no treatment, other types are aggressive and can spread quickly. Prostate cancer that is detected early — when it's still confined to the prostate gland — has a better chance of successful treatment. One of the biggest and prevalent issues with prostate cancer is the rates of sensitivity and specificity. Sensitivity and specificity measure the number of false positives and false negatives, and are useful in evaluating the effectiveness of screening methods. Sensitivity is the number of true positive results divided by the sum of the true positive results and false negative results. Specificity is the number of true negative results divided by the sum of the true negative results and false positive results. The article explains that the PSA test and Digital Rectal Examination (DRE) are the most widely used forms of prostate cancer screening. The PSA test is simply a blood test. Even though the PSA is widely available to the general population it’s the sensitivity is 34.9% and the specificity is 63.1% which is not good at all. The DRE test is available by appointment in a doctor's office; there is discomfort for the patient and a risk of slight bleeding. The sensitivity is 27.1% and the specificity is 49.0%, which is worse than the PSA test. To help ensure that the readings will be more reliable most doctors use the two tests together, the sensitivity remains low at 38.0%, and...
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...Our third initiative will focus on partnering with the community, especially its leaders, in Brasilia, the capital city of Brazil. By building relationships with the community, we can create shared value as we help educate the population about the disease while marketing our product implicitly. Now, I am going to talk about why we chose Brasilia as our location and how we will carry this plan out. First of all, we decided to carry out this project in Brasilia because prostate cancer is the most common cancer for men in Brazil. But, the more important reason for selecting this location lies in that there are Brazilian leaders, who have had cancer, living in the region. To soften the market for our bigger expansion into South America in the future, it is important to respond to the culture there and interact with the community. When we attempt to enter the market in Brasilia, people can be on alert and oppose us since we are a foreign pharmaceutical company. In response, becoming friendly with the Brazilian leaders with some kind of connection to cancer will help the population accept our company better. In Brazil, the current president and ex-president have both suffered and recovered from cancer. So, we believe that these important figures obviously know the importance of treatments and of awareness of such diseases. And since they are major influencers that the citizens listen to, it would be easier to enter the market in Brasilia if we could get them in on our project....
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...abundance of thick sticky mucus in the lungs. The production of this mucus causes the lungs to clog and can lead to life threating infections. CF can also cause the pancreas to obstruct and stop enzymes, which allows the body to absorb and breakdown food. This can cause slow growth and malnutrition in the body, and the sticky mucus can block the airway which makes it difficult to breath causing this disease to be life threatening. People with CF have shorter life expectancy, because of the way CF controls the body. The treatment for CF is improving every day which are allowing people to live into their 30s and beyond, unlike 50 years ago when CF patients were dying in their childhood. “CF is the one of the most common life threatening genetic diseases in the United States. It affects all racial and ethnic groups; however it is most common among Caucasians” (March of Dimes, 2012). Babies that are born with CF are about 1 in 3,500....
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...Requiring Newborn Screening of Critical Congenital Heart Disease Date With the numerous technological advances that have occurred in today’s health care system, one would think newborn screening would be required in Maryland for the most common birth defect in the United States, critical congenital heart disease (CCHD), but only just this year has the state considered the requirement (Department of Legislative Services, Office of Information Systems [DLSOIS], 2011). Critical congenital heart disease, a disorder in which an infant’s heart or blood vessels near the heart develop abnormally before birth, affects approximately 8 out of every 1,000 infants each year in the US, amounting to around 36,000 infants (DLSOIS, 2011). CCHD is the leading cause of death among infants within the first year of life, amounting to nearly 40% of deaths, often due to the fact that a large number of infants with this disease go undetected (Martin, Bradshaw, & Wright, n.d.). Although some babies are diagnosed with congenital heart disease shortly before or after birth, many diagnoses are not made until days, weeks, or months later; sometimes not at all. Many benefits are associated with implementing CCHD screening, many treatment options are available for those diagnosed with CCHD, and a bill is being proposed to the State of Maryland’s General Assembly about including this screening in the Department of Health and Mental Hygiene’s Newborn Screening Program (DLSOIS, 2011). The benefits...
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...Commonwealth of Pennsylvania, Department of Health Authorization to Obtain Newborn Screening Results and for Disclosure of Protected Health Information Fax form to the Department of Health’s Bureau of Family Health Newborn Screening Section at 717-213-3784 1. I authorize the Pennsylvania Department of Health (Department) to use/disclose individual newborn screening information/results obtained from the records of: (Please Print) Name at Birth: ___________________________________________________________ Date of Birth: __________________________ Sex: M F Telephone:__________________________________ Address:________________________________________________________________ Hospital of Birth: _________________________________________________________ Mother’s Full Name: ______________________________________________________ Mother’s Maiden Name: ____________________________________________________ Last 4 digits of Mother’s Social Security Number: _______________________________ 2. Reason for disclosure of Department Newborn Screening Results:(Describe each specific purpose – such as: use for direct patient care or college application) _College Application__________________________________________________________________ 3. I understand that: a. This authorization may be revoked at any time by writing to the Department except to the extent that information has already been disclosed. If information has already been disclosed...
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...sentence strike interest because of the words issue, healthcare and controversial. The second sentence introduces the reason for the argument. Look at the essay’s introduction. Is there a thesis statement or “statement of purpose” drafted? (Look for a sentence that tells the reader what to expect from this essay.) What is the statement? Patients and Practitioners should not adhere to the guidance form the U.S. Preventive Services Task Force against prostate-specific antigen. C. Based on the introduction, what specific points do you think the writer will make about the essay’s subject? Based on the introduction I believe that key points will be about the strong disagreement with the decision of the Task Force not recommending regular PSA screening, considering prostate cancer is the most wide spread form of cancer. D. Based on the way the main points appear in the essay’s introduction, in what order do you expect to see them in the essay? The recommendation was given without: First, regards to the...
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