The cost of coronary heart disease to society “Coronary heart disease (CHD)‚ also called coronary artery disease (CAD)‚ is when the vessels supplying blood and oxygen to your heart become narrow or constricted⑺” The main causes are: Smoking cigarettes - Cigarette smoking is a major cause of strokes. High blood pressure - Can put strain on your heart and can lead to CHD. High cholesterol levels - Cholesterol is essential for healthy cells‚ but if there is too much in the blood it can lead
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create mobility problems. Acute rehabilitation hospitals and rehabilitation centers are two types of facilities that aid in rehabilitation. The goals of each facility differs in the expectations to be released to another facility or if well enough‚ possibly home. In both facility moral is an important aspect in healing‚ therefore‚ it is pertinent that the nurses assist in this. Acute care hospitals are more temporary than rehabilitation facilities. The primary goal of acute care is to stabilize
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a phantom pregnancy.Parents felt the same symptoms that they partners have during their pregnancy. For example‚ they suffered back pain‚ foot cramps‚ fainting‚ depression‚anxiety to eating a lot‚ and nausea which such cases are known as "Couvade syndrome".Specialists do not have very clear that such cases occurs. They explain that may be related to anxiety during pregnancy and mind only in very rare cases‚ men may develop a bloated stomach that resembles
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advantages and disadvantages? Budd Chiari Syndrome •Clinical term used to describe the manifestation of hepatic venous outflow obstruction •Secondary to hepatic vein thrombosis •Or to the narrowing/occlusion of the inferior vena cava (Khan 2009‚Val DC 2003) Ostial stenosis web thrombus Abdominal vein Liver Stomach Gallbladder Enlarged caudate lobe Inferior vena cava Portal vein (Menon et al.‚ 2004) Budd Chiari Syndrome • Primary type -Endoluminal venous (I.e. Thrombosis
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Ambulatory and acute facilities differ in many ways. Although‚ they both have one major goal and that is to do what is best suited for the patient. According to the textbook‚ ambulatory care is the involvement of a patient who does not require an overnight stay (Gartee‚ 2011). Most of these facilities are filled with different types of physicians and are usually privately owned. Although they are owned by a clinician‚ they are managed by administrators (Gartee‚ 2011). Nurses have an important role
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Coronary Heart Disease Heart diseases are one of the most killing diseases in the United States‚ where there are more than half a million people die of a hteart the disease every year. That is a 1 in every 4 deaths‚ which is a very huge number. (wc) About 370 thousands of these people die of the most killing type which is the coronary heart disease. (1) Since the coronary heart disease is very common nowadays‚ people should be educated on what exactly it is and how it happens‚ its risk
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Establishing Acute Pain Service Many hospitals have employed an acute pain service for nearly a decade‚ but for many hospitals in the United States this still is a new idea. What we’re seeing is a new modality in treatment and the way we approach it. An acute pain service (APS) primarily manages pain after traumatic injury or surgery. The basic aspects of an APS include standardization of analgesic techniques‚ increased pain monitoring and assessment‚ and the ability to respond to inadequate or
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Guillain-Barre Syndrome Works cited 1. "Guillain-Barré Syndrome Fact Sheet." : National Institute of Neurological Disorders and Stroke (NINDS). N.p.‚ n.d. Web. 12 Jan. 2014. 2. "Guillain-Barré Syndrome Causes‚ Symptoms‚ and Treatments." WebMD. WebMD‚ 03 Jan. 0000. Web. 12 Jan. 2014. 3. "Patient Comments: Guillain-Barre Syndrome - Symptoms - Viewers Share Their Medical Experiences - MedicineNet." MedicineNet. N.p.‚ n.d. Web. 14 Jan. 2014. 4. "Guillain-Barre
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of the most common causes of death worldwide‚ though many people live with this disease for many years without knowing it. Types of heart diseases include coronary artery disease‚ cardiomyopath‚ valvular heart disease‚ pericardial disease‚ and congenital heart disease. The most common type of heart disease is coronary artery disease. Coronary artery disease (CAD) is when the arteries that supplies blood for the heart muscle gradually hardens and thickens (artherosclorosis) because of the buildup
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Guillain-Barré syndrome following Zika virus infection does not come as a surprise‚ as this syndrome is a well-known (albeit rare) complication of other infections. Definition of Guillain-Barré syndrome Guillain-Barré syndrome represents an acute autoimmune polyradiculoneuropathy with a wide spectrum of severity. A history of gastrointestinal or respiratory infection three weeks or less before the onset is noted in approximately two thirds of patients with Guillain-Barré syndrome. A possible explanation
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