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    with four children. He describes himself as a socialable person likes to explore new things. Occupation: He works at the Nasinu Town Council as a Carpenter Family History: -his father is a known diabetic patient and his grandmother died of leukemia -his paternal uncle had died from septicemia. Social History: Cigarettes 1 pack per week x 12years now; he stopped smoking in 2000 and continued again recently. He drinks alcohol occasionally when a function occurs at home. Social drinker. He

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    By the age of thirteen‚ Anna has undergone countless surgeries‚transfusions and shots so that Kate could somehow fight the leukemia. When Anna was required to give a kidney‚ which her mother‚so intent on saving Kate.doesnt think is a big deal‚ Anna starts to question who she really is‚ and finally came to a decision which for most would be unthinkable. She has had enough. She

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    HESI REVIEW CH # 1 Lab Ranges * Hgb | * Male 14-18 * Female 12-16 | * High-altitude living increases values. Slight Hgb decreases normally occur during pregnancy | * | * Hct | * Male 42-52 * Female 37-47 | * Prolonged stasis from vasoconstriction secondary to tourniquet can alter values | * | * RBC | * Male 4.7-6.1 * Female 4.2-5.4 | * Never draw specimen from an arm with an infusing IV. | * | * WBC | * 5‚000-10‚000 | * Anesthetics

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    Did he obtain a consultation of a more detached colleagues or psychiatrist to determine whether Diane was clinically depressed is an unknown fact? The relevant facts of this case are Diane had acute myelomonocytic leukemia‚ and she did not want to go through any treatments. Dr. Quill made sure Diane and her family understood the risk of no treatments. In the case of Diane‚ the main question is whether it is ethically reasonably for Dr. Quill to inform Diane

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    NS 3205 Study Guide for Final Exam Chapter 42 Care of Patients with Hematologic Problems 1. Identify the etiologies and clinical manifestations common to all types of anemia. (See Table 42-1 p 870 and Chart 42-1 p 871) Common Cause Sickle cell disease: autosomal recessive inheritance of two defective gene alleles for hemoglobin synthesis Glucose-6-phosphate dehydrogenase (G6PD) deficiency anemia: X-linked recessive deficiency of enzyme G6PD Autoimmune hemolytic anemia: abnormal

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    are not done to screen for admission‚ but rather to anticipate potential health issues while the student is enrolled.) To their horror‚ the examinations determine that Michelle has early symptoms of a particularly virulent form of Acute Childhood Lymphoid Leukemia. Nothing in the embryonic screening could have predicted its occurrence. They begin immediate conventional treatments which prove to be ineffective. At their oncologist’s recommendation they enroll her in the nation’s premier pediatric

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    CSR Defined Corporate Social Responsibility is a term that has been around for a while now‚ and has changed its shape as time as gone. Essentially the idea of corporate social responsibility is as it written: the social responsibility of the corporation. However the way in which corporations decide their social responsibility or the way it is measured has been contested for some time. The concepts that corporations are using in today’s world of corporate social responsibility include corporate citizenship

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    because cigarettes contain many cancer-causing substances. Cigarette smoking causes many types of cancer‚ including cancers of the lung‚ esophagus‚ larynx (voice box)‚ mouth‚ throat‚ kidney‚ bladder‚ pancreas‚ stomach‚ and cervix‚ as well as acute myeloid leukemia (Harms of Smoking). Not only does smoking ruin your insides‚ it ruins your outer appearance too. Smoking leads to bad breath‚ yellow teeth‚ yellow fingernails‚ and early aging skin. a study conducted in 2002 showed that facial wrinkling‚ while

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    Did you know that for every cigarette you smoke you can lose eleven minutes off your life? Smoking can not only leave you with long term affects you may not be able to get rid of but it will leave you poor and maybe dead. Mankind first came in touch with tobacco approximately eighteen thousand years ago‚ when migrant Asiatic people first intersected the Bering Strait and extended across the continents today known as the Americas‚ where tobacco is native (Gately ‚2001). Mayan Indians of Mexico

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    GENERAL AND ENVIRONMENTAL IMPACTS OF NUCLEAR BOMBS According to the movie‚ TRINITY AND BEYOND: THE ATOMIC BOMB MOVIE‚ on July the sixteenth year 1945‚ at a site called "Trinity"‚ a ‘plutonium bomb ’ was piled and taken up the top of a tower. This ‘plutonium bomb ’ was exploded thereby generating a very high measure of flash light and a fireball that radiated through 0.6 kilometers (0.37 miles) in 2 seconds. The detonative energy or power was equivalent to 18.6 kilotons of TNT. This fume grew up

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