PART ONE Medical-Surgical Cases 1 1 Cardiovascular Cardiovascular Disorders Case Study 1 Heart Failure Difficulty: Beginning Setting: Emergency department‚ hospital Index Words: heart failure (HF)‚ cardiomyopathy‚ volume overload‚ quality of life X Scenario M.G.‚ a “frequent flier‚” is admitted to the emergency department (ED) with a diagnosis of heart failure (HF). She was discharged from the hospital 10 days ago and comes in today stating‚ “I just had to come to the hospital today because I
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Improving Patient Throughput In the Emergency Department Introduction St. Vincent’s Medical Center‚ a 501 bed facility located in Jacksonville‚ Florida‚ provides general medical and surgical care to the North Florida Region. St. Vincent’s admits over 26‚000 patients annually. The average occupancy rate is approximately 84% with the Emergency Department (ED) peeking at 100% for approximately 4-12 hours daily. The hospital is struggling with availability of bed space. This shortage of available
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During my trip to the Philadelphia Museum of Art‚ the painting that caught my attention the most was the Old Woman (Woman with Gloves) painted by Pablo Picasso in France‚ created in 1901. This painting was located in the The Philadelphia Museum of Art‚ Resnick Rotunda room and apart of the The Louise and Walter Arensberg Collection. This painting was painted during Picasso’s Blue Period. The Blue Period is defined as a depressing and cheerless period. During this era‚ Picasso had a love for drawing
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The birth pains that marked the launching last year of K + 12—a bold program meant to align the Philippines with the global 12-year basic education cycle—are not going away soon‚ along with the usual problems encountered at the beginning of each school year. A quarter of the Philippines’ nearly 100 million population are students—some 21 million of them enrolled in more than 46‚000 public schools and the rest in private facilities‚ according to statistics from the Department of Education (DepEd)
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developing choronic post surgical pain: Preoperative risk factors associated with high incidence of chronic post surgical pain: • Preoperative pain‚ not localized to previous nonsurgical site‚ is strongly related to chronic post surgical pain (Gerbershagen‚ 2010). • Intensity and duration of preoperative pain (Katz‚ 2009). • Younger female is more prone to having postsurgical pain (Richardson‚ 2007). • Excessive fear of surgery has identified as a predictor for postsurgical pain (Peters‚ 2007).
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REFLECTIVE ESSAY ON THE LEARNING CONTRACT CONSIDERING THE SURGICAL AND ANAESTHETICS ROLES OF ODP FOR AN ABDOMINAL HYSTERECTOMY. By AKINYEMI AKINTARO 0711964 Dip of HE (ODP) Enhanced Theatre Practice OPE09-1 REFLECTION ON THE LEARNING CONTRACT. This is a reflective essay based on my experience of participating in delivery of anaesthetic and surgical care to a patient undergoing abdominal hysterectomy under general and regional anaesthesia. I will be describing the process
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The poet recalls a visit to an old couple; the old woman is helpless‚ and dying slowly. It is clear from the description that she has no quality of life. She is cared for by her husband who prays for her release from this life. Significance of the title: no definite article emphasises the universal nature of the experience Degradation of the old woman as this suggests she needs help. Simply eating to stay alive. Animal connotations. Simile – like an old horse. Useless‚ fit only to be put
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the poem is thus against this setting. "An Old Woman" is a graphic picture of a beggar woman. Having lost the promises of her past‚ she is reduced to her present state. As the speaker views her squarely‚ he‚ in a sort of ’revelation’‚ becomes aware of the decay which has set in her person and which is extended to the decaying tradition symbolized by the hills and the temples. Without using many words‚ the old woman forces the narrator to look at her from closed quarters. It is then that he realizes
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Assignment Course Code: MIS419 Course Title: E-Commerce and Web programming Topic: Prospects‚ Present Status and Challenges of Television Banking Section: 01 Submitted To Md. Ziaul Haque Senior Lecturer Department of Business Administration East West University Submitted By Name ID Abdullah Al Walid 2011-1-10-341 Nazmus Salekin Shehabee 2011-1-10-336 Moushumi Iqbal 2011-1-10-081 Rajuana Haque Trisha 2011-2-10-092 Participation form: ID NAME Percentage share (Group work and slide preparation
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submitted as one deliverable. Case Study #1 Ms. A. is an apparently healthy 26-year-old white woman. Since the beginning of the current golf season‚ Ms. A has noted increased shortness of breath and low levels of energy and enthusiasm. These symptoms seem worse during her menses. Today‚ while playing in a golf tournament at a high‚ mountainous course‚ she became light-headed and was taken by her golfing partner to the emergency clinic. The attending physician’s notes indicated a temp of 98 degrees F‚
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