Main point: Acute respiratory distress syndrome affects over a million people and has a high mortality rate of 34-58% regardless to the improvements in intensive care and ventilatory technologies. The extracorporeal membrane oxygenation (ECMO) is well documented in neonatal and pediatric patients. However‚ the use in adults is very limited. This case presented a successful use of ECMO therapy to treat a patient who had a complex condition and was not effective in traditional treatments. THREE to
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Severe Acute Respiratory Syndrome is caused by a virus‚ not a certain type of bacteria. This virus belongs to a class of viruses called coronavirus. Since SARS was an outbreak caused by a virus that was previously unknown‚ scientist named the virus that causes SARS‚ SARS-associated coronavirus (SARS-CoV). World Health Organization (WHO) physician Dr. Carlo Urbani identified SARS as a new disease in 2003 when he diagnosed a severely ill 48-year old businessman who was traveling from the Guangdong
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functions of the main cell components of the body cell. The cell membrane : is something that lets some things in and some things out of the cell. It is an outer cover for the cell. If the cell membrane was non existences the cell would spill all over the place. Its function is to protect the integrity of the interior of the cell by allowing certain substances into the cell‚ while keeping other substances out. It is composed of a thin‚ double-layered sheet of lipids‚ around the Cell and is a protective
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1) Psychology can be defed as the scientific study of behavior and mental processes 2) Mental processes are thoughts‚ emotions‚ perceptions‚ reasoning processes‚ memories‚ and biological activities that maintain bodily functioning 3) Psychologists describe‚ explain‚ predict‚ and improve behavior in every aspect of their jobs. 4) Behavioral neuroscience focuses on how the brain and nervous system functions as they relate to behavior. 5) Which of the following subfields in psychology focuses
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Title: Introduction to cell‚ tissues and organ Objectives: 1. To study the different type‚ function‚ structure and histology of cell‚ tissue‚ and organs in human body. 2. To learn how to identify different cell and tissue based on their structure and shape. 3. To learn how to use the microscope properly to observe the slide of different cell and tissue. Introduction: Cell is the basic structural and functional units of an organism that are composed of chemicals. Cell is the smallest living unit
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Explain the hardware‚ software and peripheral components of a computer system and the functional relation between these components. Fig: functions of the operating systems (1) 1- Hardware Hardware consists of physical equipment of the computer. We distinguish equipment within the Case such as: Power supply: it is the equipment that receives electricity from a DC current and converts it to a alternative current AC for the needs of the computer. The power supply may depends on the motherboard
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Effect of Systems on Business Identify five different IT systems that have affected business in the past few years. For each system‚ briefly note the following: · A name for the system · The area of business it affects · What changes the system brought to the business world · What business processes changed because of the system · Likely future effect of the system Four current technology trends that offer valuable business opportunities are social‚ mobile‚ cloud‚ and data analytics. These ITs are
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1. Explain the structure of the federal judicial system. What are the responsibilities of each part of the system? The federal judicial system can be said to be federal courts with limited jurisdiction. This means that they are only allowed to hear cases that have been authorized by the United States Constitution or the federal statutes. The federal judicial system has 3 levels of the federal court system. This is the U.S Supreme Court‚ the U.S Courts of Appeals and the U.S. District Courts.
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Nervous system: one of the eleven major body organ systems in animals; coordinates and controls actions of internal organs and body systems; receives and processes sensory information from external environment; coordinated short-term reactions to these stimuli. Cell body: the part that contains the nucleus and most of the cytoplasm and the organelles. Axon: sends messages away from the cell body to other neurons. Dendrite: short‚ highly branched fibers that carry signals toward the cell body of a
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The healthcare system consist of three different sectors which are private‚ public‚ and voluntary sectors. Each individual sector have different aspects which make them diverse from the other sectors. The private sector of the healthcare system have key concepts that can affect the advancement of some health services. The key concepts include; high demand of services ‚ mobility population‚ and enlargement of the healthcare field. The healthcare field consist of four major personal care services which
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