Interview Form Cardiovascular Disease Interview Checklist for Symptoms and Signs of Cardiovascular Disease □ 1. Do you have swelling of the ankles on a regular basis?. □ 2. Do you suffer from shortness of breath?. □ 3. Do you suffer from abdominal pain or sensitivity to touch in that area? □ 4. Do you feel pressure in your chest‚ neck‚ or arms?. □ 5. Do you have cold sweats on a regular basis?. □ 6. Do you have high blood pressure?. □ 7.Do you feel fatigued or tired a lot?. □ 8. Have
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Upper airway obstruction condition in which sites of anatomic narrowing such as the hypo pharynx at the base of the tongue and the false and true vocal cords at the laryngeal opening are obstructed. Vasogenic edema an accumulation of fluid in the cerebrum that is typically caused by an increase in capillary endothelial cell permeability and usually occurs near a tumor. Ventilation-perfusion ratio (V/Q) the relationship between ventilation and blood flow in the lung that is measure by calculating
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1. Introduction Rarely any physician intends to harm patients when he or she provides treatment to them. Patients see physicians and specialists in full faith that they will get help with a condition. What complicates the patient-doctor relationship is that the outcome of each patient’s treatment is different because of individual health conditions and the course of treatment chosen by the doctor. Problems arise when a patient is not satisfied with care provided by the doctor or in extreme
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Circulatory system From Wikipedia‚ the free encyclopedia Jump to: navigation‚ search This article is about the organ system. For the band‚ see Circulatory System. For transport in plants‚ see Vascular tissue. Circulatory system | | The human circulatory system. Red indicates oxygenated blood‚ blue indicates deoxygenated. | Latin | systema cardiovasculare | The circulatory system is an organ system that passes nutrients (such as amino acids‚ electrolytes and lymph)‚ gases‚ hormones
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blood in the heart. As before upon contraction the blood is forced from the left ventricle through the aortic valve into the ascending aorta. Because our goal is to trace the blood to the right planter surface of the foot we know that the blood with continue through the aortic arch until the aorta starts to descend behind the heart. The descending aorta will turn into abdominal aorta. The abdominal aorta descends through the body until branching off into the left and right common iliac artery. The
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kidney and inferior to the pancreas rather than atop to kidneys and superior to the pancreas as in humans. 2. Name two endocrine organs located in the throat region? Thymus gland and thyroid gland. 3. Name three Endocrine organs located in the abdominal cavity. Adrenal glands‚ pancreas‚ and gonads. 4. Given the assumption that human beings have more stress than adult pigs‚ which endocrine organs would expect to be relatively larger in humans? The adrenal glands. 5. Explain why the thymus gland
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Running head: BSRN - 340 - PHARMACOLOGY FOR NURSING CARE - CASE STUDY #2 Case Study #2 - Vague complaints of pain in the Emergency Department Susan M. Hewitt RN‚ CEN The Robert B. Miller College BSRN-340-Pharmacology for Nursing Care Instructor: Mr. James Middleton February 26th‚ 2009 Case Study #2 – Vague complaints of pain in the Emergency Department Many people that come to the emergency department who complain of pain are usually vague about their symptoms. Other people over-react
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In 1945‚ President Truman attempted to convince Congress that the United States needed to establish a national health insurance coverage plan because of his believes that there should be “health security for all‚ regardless of residence‚ station‚ or race everywhere in the United States’. Unfortunately Truman’s attempts to establish a national health insurance plan were initially unsuccessful‚ which is why nearly twenty years later on July 30th‚ 1965 President Johnson had Truman join him at Truman’s
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When you hear the name Albert Einstein‚ you think of genius. His amazing theories have astounded both scientists and me. I wanted to find out more about this influential astrophysicist that changed our understanding of space and time. The way he thought and did things were different from the way anyone else thought. Plus‚ he came up with all his ideas in his free time while he still had another job. In this essay I will talk about the life of Einstein‚ his famous papers with all of his ideas‚ his
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estrogen exposure‚ often develops in the setting of endometrial hyperplasia‚ and presents most often with vaginal bleeding. Endometrial carcinoma is the third most common cause of gynecologic cancer death (behind ovarian and cervical cancer). A total abdominal hysterectomy (surgical removal of the uterus) with bilateral salpingo-oophorectomy is the most common therapeutic approach. Endometrial cancer may sometimes be referred to as uterine cancer. However‚ different cancers may develop not only from the
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