I chose the patient, William Bentley who is 59 years old male for Week 6 Forum topic. His medical history is he has shortness of breath with progressive since 3 months ago. He is a heavy smoker for over 40 years and alcohol consuming, too. There are some risk factors in order to treatment under the hospital. If he doesn’t control his shortness of breath, he has to admission, immediately. I focused assessment his shortness of breath on week 6 forum. There is activity intolerance due to short of
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Introduction: In this activity each group has a member record their electrical activity of the heart with electrodes. The electrodes will be put on three different locations on the body, the right anterior forearm at the wrist, and on the medial surface of each leg, superior to the ankle. Since the electrodes will not be placed directly over the heart artifacts can result from the recording of unwanted skeletal activity. Therefore the member has to be still, cannot laugh or talk, and when in the
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Firstly, due to dynamic exercise, we hypothesised that dynamic exercise will increase heart rate, systolic pressure, pulse pressure, but decreases diastolic pressure due to vasodilation of the aorta, and the mean arterial will remain the same. The figures illustrate the effect of exercise for instance figure 1, 3 ,4, and 5 shows an increase in systolic pressure, pulse pressure, heart rate and mean arterial pressure compared to at rest, whereas figure 2 shows a decrease in diastolic pressure due to
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Many people will experience heartburn and acid reflux at some point in their life, but reoccurring acid reflux is a condition called GERD. GERD stands for gastroesophegeal reflux disease. “GERD presents a collection of unpleasant clinical symptoms and histologic alterations resulting from the chronic, excessive backflow of gastric contents (refluxate) into the esophagus. Among other manifestations, GERD may cause frequent or daily heartburn and esophageal injury” (The Nurse Practitioner). It can
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Physical Examination/Objective Data: Musculoskeletal Temporomandibular joint: On inspection of mandible, no audible snap or click occurred, or any swelling, like round bulge over the joint. When the client opened his mouth maximally, vertical motion observed, with length of space about 5 cm between the upper and lower incisors. When the client partially opened his mouth and had lower jaw to protrude, moving side-to-side about 1.5 cm, and observed lower jaw protruding without any deviation. When the
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. There are many differences in JNC VII and JNC VIII one noted difference than practitioners are likely is ease of use. The new recommendations seem to be easier for practitioners to use and implement into care (global research). Research for JNC VIII recommendations seem to be very evidence based, expert opinion, and systematically reviewed whereas in JNC VII recommendations seem to be very expert based (JNC). The initial treatment choice for JNC 7 was thiazides, this recommendation has not been
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The major function of the respiratory system is to supply the cells in the human body with oxygen and get rid of wastes like carbon dioxide. The respiratory system consists of many components that are all linked together. At the start is the nasal cavity then going down is the epiglottis, which is a flap of skin that closes the end of the trachea as you swallow food, then the pharynx. Going down the same path is the larynx (voice box) then it meets the trachea (windpipe), splitting to the left
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Every year thousands of people in America die due to the lack of available organs. In the article, “Organ Sales Will Save Lives” by Joanne MacKay. The purpose of MacKay’s article was to raise awareness to reader in regards to the thousands of people in the world that are in need of life saving organs, specifically kidneys. The author goes on to describe the grueling dialysis treatments for patients suffering End Stage Renal Disease and the lengthy wait for a cadaver donation. Unhappy with these
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Who and what are conjoined twins? “Conjoined twins are two babies that are born physically connected to each other,”(Mayo Clinic Staff,1). Some conjoined twins are Chang and Eng, Violet and Daisy, and Brittany and Abby. There are many different kinds of conjoined twins. Conjoined twins will never be alone. How will they live their lives? Well conjoined twins Chang and Eng figured out how to live their lives with each other and now may not be able to survive without each other. Chang and Eng
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I am on call tonight and was called in at around eleven PM. My mother was still asleep when I left the apartment. The radio began to blare… “We have an approximately sixty-year-old male, around two-hundred and seventy-five pounds, found on I-94. It was a head-on collision, only two people were involved. The other driver, about forty-five years old female, was ejected out of the car and is dead. Suspected cause of death was blunt head trauma. The name of the deceased victim has not been identified
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