Asthma is a common chronic inflammatory disease that affects the airways. Asthma is usually characterized by airflow obstruction and bronchospasm. Some of the more common symptoms of asthma include tightness in the chest‚ shortness of breath‚ coughing and wheezing. Although asthma itself is considered to be chronic‚ asthma attacks can be considered either acute‚ or chronic. Often times those with more severe forms of asthma refer to their asthma as chronic. Chronic asthma is a serious condition‚
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COPD which is Chronic Obstructive Pulmonary Disease is known as a condition that progressively makes it harder to breathe because the airflow into and out of the lungs is reduced. This usually occurs because the airways and air sacs lose their elastic quality‚ the walls between the air sacs are destroyed‚ the walls of the airways become swollen‚ or if the airways are clogged because they made more mucus than usual. Three main conditions of this disease are emphysema‚ chronic obstructive bronchitis
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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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Acute Respiratory Distress Syndrome In the field of respiratory therapy‚ we are the fighters that must preserve the breath of life. The battlefield we wage war on is riddled with many diseases and hardships for us to help our patients overcome by any means necessary. One of the main heavy hitters in this battle is acute respiratory distress syndrome (ARDS). This condition is very deadly and is a tough opponent that must be defeated. ARDS is a dangerous condition affecting a vast group of patients
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Introduction Acute lymphoblastic leukemia (ALL) is a fast-growing cancer of the white blood cells. Lymphocytes are a type of white blood cell that the body uses to fight infections. In ALL‚ the bone marrow makes lots of unformed cells called blasts that normally would develop into lymphocytes. However‚ the blasts are abnormal. They do not develop and cannot fight infections. The number of abnormal cells (or leukemia cells) grows quickly. They crowd out the normal red blood cells‚ white blood cells
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3 Things Everybody Ought to Know About Chronic Illness 1) Millions of people live with one or more chronic illnesses. One of the most important things to understand about chronic illness‚ whether you’re living with one‚ or know someone who is‚ is that chronic illness is real. Millions of people live with a chronic illness that causes them daily pain‚ fatigue‚ mental anguish‚ anxiety‚ digestive issues‚ and/or brain fog. This is a stark reality backed by medical evidence. For example:
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Mikaela Fernandez Hour 1‚ Fouts What is Leukemia? The story of my search on leukemia. March 19th‚ 2004. I was 14 months old so now that I’m 14‚ I was not able to recall anything. But this was the night‚ that I was diagnosed with Acute Lymphocytic Leukemia. Up until now‚ my parents have always told me about what I went through but only little bits. I wondered : How is leukemia even formed? How dangerous and quick can this cancer spread? What were the side effects showing the doctors that I had
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PERSONALITY‚ 2011‚ 39(5)‚ 713-720 © Society for Personality Research DOI 10.2224/sbp.2011.39.5.713 DEVELOPMENT OF THE ACUTE STRESS RESPONSE SCALE YEBING YANG‚ JINGJING TANG‚ YUAN JIANG‚ XUFENG LIU‚ YUNFENG SUN‚ XIA ZHU‚ AND DANMIN MIAO Fourth Military Medical University‚ Xi’an‚ People’s Republic of China In this study we developed a scale to provide a tool for accurate assessment of acute stress response (ASR). We determined the dimensions and symptom clusters of ASR according to a review of the literature
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I have seen the issue of homelessness over and over whenever I travel to busy cities‚ but never gave anything a second thought. I have researched the extent of the issue and discovered many Americans live in a condition called “chronic homelessness.” Reading many articles about this saddened me and has driven me to think about what plan of action I am going to take in the future to prevent homelessness from being such an issue. I am hoping to hold a canned food drive at my school
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THE IMPACT OF ASTHMA & CHRONIC ILLNESSES Explore the social and economic implications for the individual‚ the family‚ and the community of a child with a chronic illness such as asthma. Asthma is one of the most common long term chronic illnesses in children. About one out of every eight or nine Australian children have asthma. Australia has one of the highest levels of asthma in the world. It not only affects the child themselves but also affects their family and the wider community. (National
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