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    The elderly are more prone to catheter associated urinary tract infections. In long term health care facilities the chance of an elderly person developing a urinary tract infection from a catheter is greatly increased. Elderly patients with urinary retention problems receive indwelling urinary catheters which typically remain in place for 30 days or longer. Indwelling catheters cause a patient’s chance of contracting bacteremia to increase by 30 times. The longer a patient has a long term indwelling

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    Personal Impact: A Patient Living with COPD Pamela D. Eliowitz NURS/427 May 28‚ 2012 Trecia Jones Personal Impact: A Patient Living with COPD Chronic Obstructive Pulmonary Disease‚ is a Chronic and progressive illness that affects a person’s ability to breath. The affects to breathing occur due to obstructive airways caused by production of mucous from continuous inflammation and by constrictive airways caused by the narrowing of the bronchial tubes from spasms

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    Adam Barone Professor German EngWr 300 9 November 2013 Asthma: A Modern Problem Throughout our day we perform a variety of physical tasks: Walking‚ sitting down‚ getting up‚ going up and down stairs‚ and even running for those are more physically active. Since these physical activities can be extremely simple and routine to the average person‚ they are often done effortlessly without thought‚ giving people the freedom to focus their minds on bigger matters. Imagine if you could not accomplish

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    Chronic Obstructive Pulmonary Disease (COPD) is a lung disease that makes breathing difficult. It is progressive which means it gets worse over time if left untreated. In COPD‚ less air flows in and out of the airways because of one of the following: the airways and air sacs lose their elastic quality‚ the walls between many of the air sacs are destroyed‚ the walls of the airways become thick and inflamed and/ or the airways make more mucus than usual. https://www.nhlbi.nih.gov/health/health-topics/topics/copd/

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    The Asthma Epidemic: Diagnosis‚ Treatments and Management‚ all prospects towards a better future Asthma is a multifactorial chronic disorder that has displayed a significant increase in prevalence and incidence worldwide over the past two decades‚ particularly in developed countries (Hazeldine‚ 2013). The World Health Organization estimates that 235 million people currently suffer from this common respiratory condition. Despite this growth‚ over that same period of time‚ global asthma mortality

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    Pulmonary fibrosis (PF) is the condition in which the alveolar wall is thickened by scarring‚ causes the patients to have shortness of breath‚ fatigue and lower the oxygen saturation. PF may have definable causes but in many cases‚ the causes remain unknown. Those cases with unknown causes called idiopathic pulmonary fibrosis (IPF). Air is drawn in by the nose and mouth‚ passes through the bronchi to the bronchioles and finally reaches millions of alveoli. Around the alveolar is a group of many capillaries

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    Shakespeare Sance Homework # 4 The factors that would cause the lung to collapse are elastic recoil and high surface tension. And the factors that prevent the lungs from collapse are negative intrapulmonary pressure and surfactant. During expiration : volume increase and pressure decrease During inspiration : volume decrease and pressure increase The role of surfactant is to decrease surface tension by more than 40 times. And it’s effect on surface tension is to prevent them from PO2

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    DOI: 12/8/2014. The patient is a 54-year-old male janitor who sustained a work-related injury to his back and buttocks when he slipped on a soap that he accidentally dropped on the floor. Per OMNI‚ he was diagnosed with pain to the lower back and spasms. Per the PT notes dated 09/21/15‚ the patient has had 66 visits for the back. Patient is feeling much better with treatment. Based on the initial evaluation report dated 06/16/16‚ the patient complains of lower back pain radiating to both buttocks

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    Pathophysiology Discussion Paper: COPD Chronic Obstructive Pulmonary Disease Clinical Definition This lung disease is clinically defined as a chronic obstacle of lung airflow that interferes with normal breathing and is not fully reversible (WHO‚ 2014). This chronic lung disease is commonly associated with constant inflammatory response within the lung airways minimizing gas exchange (Romme‚ McAllister‚ Murchison‚ Beek‚ Petrides‚ Price‚ MacNee‚ 2013). Many individuals with COPD disease commonly

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    Patient LR‚ like so many of my patients‚ has an unusual background‚ with a graduate degree‚ study abroad‚ and expertise in art. Before we first met‚ he had worked successfully in business for many years. His very devoted wife had a Ph.D. and had‚ before retirement‚ worked as a college professor. He had been in good health when in July of 1991‚ at age 70‚ a routine chest x-ray at the time of his yearly physical revealed a small right lung nodule suspicious for possible malignancy. A repeat x-ray

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