BLOOD 1. The important components of blood include plasma‚ erythrocytes‚ and leukocytes. Red blood cells or erythrocytes account for 45 % of the blood. Leukocytes or white blood cells‚ aid in protecting the body from disease as well as platelets. Platelets function to inhibit excessive bleeding from the body. The plasma layer is another layer that constitutes the majority of blood. 2. The Plasma is straw coloured. It has 90% water‚ 7%proteins and 3% other substances. The Plasma protects the
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1. The Wounded Knee Massacre took place on December 29‚ 1890‚ but the tensions that led to this eruption in conflict had long been developing. For years the United States government had been seizing land that belonged to Native Americans through “trickery… deportation… and murder”‚ including that of the Lakota Sioux‚ who were the victims of the massacre. Not only that‚ “Americans had shown ‘democratic energy and enterprise’ in ‘driving back the Indians‚ or annihilating them as a race’”‚ demonstrating
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Running head: SPINAL CORD INJURY Spinal Cord Injury Shannon G. Johnston‚ RN‚ CEN Liberty University Abstract There are many types of spinal cord injuries (SCI). Patients with SCI can symptoms that range from mild neurologic impairment (such as numbness and tingling of extremities or neck pain) to devastating total body paralysis depending on the extent of damage and where in the spinal cord the damage occurs. Management of airway‚ breathing and circulation are key with SCI patients‚ as
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Intro Many treatments are available to treat the dysfunction called addiction. Some people use cognitive behavioral therapy‚ support groups such as Alcoholics Anonymous‚ and also medical treatment. Each approach has positives and negatives to consider‚ but I will focus on those related to the medical treatment of addiction. Initially‚ to even begin treating addiction with a medical mindset‚ you must understand addiction as a disease of the body and mind. The disease model of addiction states
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Ana Veras 1/30/2013 BUS 3302 Professor Ed Jaye Chapter 1 Summary The Anatomy of Decisions • In the real world managers are paid to make decisions on a daily basis‚ on how your firm’s resources are controlled to meet goals that have been set by higher managers or by yourself. • There are some essential characteristics that manager’s share when making a decision; they are usually made with someone else’s money and need to be justified‚ they build on one another‚ the outcome is important
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Final Exam Study Guide *Which muscle contributes to bulk of vocal folds? -vocalis/thyroarytenoid *How many breaths per minute does an adult intake at rest? -12 to 18 cycles *When the diaphragm contracts it is pulled in what direction? INFERIOR (DOWN) *What do you need to do to VF stiffness to increase pitch? -Increase stiffness *Which joints sit atop of the cricoids cartilage? little arytnoids –cricoarytenoids *Volume of air exchanged in one cycle of respiration? -tidal volume
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DOI: 8/15/2013. Patient is a 58-year-old female cleaner who sustained injury while she was cleaning and mopping the bathroom when she fell and hit her head/back. Per OMNI‚ she was diagnosed with cervical and lumbar radiculopathy‚ cervical herniations at C5-7‚ and lumbar herniation at L3-4. She underwent an anterior cervical diskectomy and fusion at C5-6 and C6-7 on 04/03/14 and lumbar laminectomy at L4-5 on 09/10/15. Based on the medical report dated 01/19/16 by Dr. Haftel‚ the IW presents with
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Drug Metabolism Prof. Patrick Davis Basic Medicinal Chemical Principles PHR 143M Fall-08 Importance of Drug Metabolism • The basic premise: Lipophilic Drugs --> Hydrophilic Metabolites (Not Excreted) (Excreted) • Water soluble => increased renal excretion -anddecreased tubular re-absorption of lipophilics. Importance of Drug Metabolism CH 3 CH 2OH CHO COOH OH O C 2H 5 Δ1-THC PC=6000 - O C O O HO OH COO OH OH Excreted Form O C 2H 5
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The first document is an excerpt from Black Elk’s autobiography regarding the Wounded Knee Massacre. The second document is an excerpt from President Benjamin Harrison’s annual message describing the conflict and progress of the program to decrease Native American’s landholdings. The audience of these two excerpts is the general public. However‚ in general‚ Native Americans were more interested considering that it was their land and people diminishing. I find it interesting that President Harrison
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Tragedy at Wounded Knee Response Indians in America from the beginning of the new world have always been mistreated. Our American government has run them off their lands massacred thousands and taken their means of life. We killed off all their buffalo made them migrate to camps or reservations were the ground was unable to grow the Indians crops. So the Indians no longer had buffalo to live off or land that was sufficient enough to grow food they were not able to survive the way they were able
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