Many types of prosthetic hand designs have limited usability but technology and its advancement has made functions like being able to grip and hold possible. A lot of daily functions like being able to hold pens‚ cups‚ and moving in the same manner a human hand would have been able to be recreated with prosthetics. With the different prosthetics and materials available‚ people are able to adapt to their lives much more easily. There are few types of solutions for prosthetics‚ one of which being
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AI and medicine promise or threat? AI (Artificial intelligence) is the intelligence showed by machines or software. It is also an academic field which studies intelligent machines and software. The main goals of AI research include reasoning‚ knowledge‚ planning‚ learning‚ communication‚ perception and the ability to move and manipulate objects. AI include sophisticated implants which is when an object or material inserted or grafted into the body for prosthetic‚ therapeutic‚ diagnostic‚ or experimental
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To: Senior Partner From: Paralegal Re: Natalie Attired Legal Memorandum #12345 Date: April 10‚ 2012 Issues 1. Was Natalie’s Tattoo really going to cause the “more mature” clientele to be “appalled and disgusted” and wanting to be waited on by another waitress? 2. Does Ms. Baker have anything in writing at the time of her firing Ms. Attired? 3. Was Natalie Attired’s unemployment benefits rightfully terminated? Brief answers 1. According to Ms. Baker‚ Natalie’s tattoo would lead to a decline
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GOOD COUNTRY PEOPLE by Flannery O ’Connor The short story Good Country People was written by O’Connor. The story introduces us to well-educated a woman who was thirty-two years old. This woman has an artificial leg which was shot off in a hunting accident when she was ten. She went to college and earned a doctorate in philosophy. She has a heart condition; so she cannot work and has to live at home with her mother. The name given to her is Joy but she changed her name to Hulga. She mocks her mother
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HISTORY AND PHYSICAL EXAMINATION Patient Name: Patrick Platt Patient ID: 771033 Room No: 560 Date of Admission: 08/30/---- Admitting Physician: William Payne‚ MD Admitting Diagnosis: Rule out fracture of left arm. CHIEF COMPLAINT: Pain and swelling‚ left upper arm. HISTORY OF PRESENT ILLNESS: The patient is an elderly male‚ who fell four days prior to admission. He noted immediate pain and swelling in the area just above his left elbow. He presented to the emergency
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Biorobotics Just as there have always been advances in medicine and technology‚ the two have now come together to form biorobotics. Biorobotics studies ways to emulate living biological organisms mechanically or even chemically. Biorobotics is a fairly new technology that still has a while before it becomes widespread. Some uses are prosthetics‚ long distance surgery‚ robotic surgery‚ robots used as doctors in the military‚ and robots used in nursing homes. Biorobotics is the future of this
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Proofreader # 1 HISTORY AND PHYSICAL EXAMINATION Patient Name: Patrick Platt Hospital No.: 771033 Room No.: 560 Date of Admission: 08/30/2008 Admitting Physician: William Payne‚ MD Admitting Diagnosis: Possible fracture of left arm. CHIEF COMPLAINT: Pain and swelling‚ left upper arm. HISTORY OF PRESENT ILLNESS: The patient is an elderly mail who fell 4 days prior to admission. He noted immediate pain and swelling in the area just below his left elbow. He was presented
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address the question‚ is hydrotherapy as effective as land based exercise for lower limb conditions? Hydrotherapy‚ water based exercise performed in a heated pool and will be analysed to determine whether it is an appropriate and beneficial type of physical therapy. Search Process Once the topic of hydrotherapy was of interest‚ keywords such as "effectiveness of hydrotherapy" and "benefits of hydrotherapy for lower limbs" were used in search engines such as Google Scholar and SciVerse. Once articles
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simulation an assessment of Mr. Bright’s limb circulation were performed. Performing circulatory observations on an individual who has recently undergone a PCI is crucial for detecting any localised vascular complications such as bleeding‚ hematoma‚ swelling‚ ecchymosis and pseudo-aneurysms. When learning in the hand over that Mr. Bright had “cold” feet post-op‚ it became clear that a prompt assessment for the colour‚ warmth and sensation of Mr. Bright’s feet and lower limbs was necessary to ensure that he
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Shark Attack (Summarizing and Note-taking) Read the story on this website: http://www.sciencecases.org/shark/shark.asp Answer the following questions: 1. Identify at least five organ systems in this region of the arm that the surgeon would have marked for reattachment. 2. List the names of the specific structures that had to be reattached. 3. What organ system was most likely not reattached? Explain. 4. Why was a clean bite so important? 5. Why was the bone shortened? 6. Identify
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