High blood pressure in the lungs is called pulmonary hypertension or pulmonary arterial hypertension. Pulmonary hypertension is high blood pressure in the arteries starting from the heart towards the lungs. Pulmonary arterial hypertension (PAH) is defined as a sustained elevation of the pulmonary arterial pressure to greater than 25 mmHg at rest or greater than 30 mmHg following exercise‚ with a mean pulmonary-capillary wedge pressure (an indirect measure of left atrial pressure) of less than 15
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Professor Alan Turner Estimating femur length from the diameter of the femoral shaft Stephen Dempsey BIEGN300 Honours Project Person Number: 343106 Submission Date: 5th March 2010 Abstract Bone lengths can be used to provide stature estimations in case of unidentified skeletal remains‚ an important tool in forensic and bioarchaelogical cases. Where the bones are broken or fragmented‚ regression equations can be used to estimate total bone length from its fragments‚ which in turn can be used
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Cardiovascular System: Blood Vessels Laszlo Vass‚ Ed.D. Version 42-0008-01-01 Purpose Please explain the purpose of this lab. Include in your explanation the major concepts you learned and any safety concerns associated with the lab. Purpose is to understand how the veins and arteries run through the body and how they function while the heart beats‚ where they deliver and drain blood to/from and how the cardiovascular system works together. Lock up the dogs while dissecting. wear face
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Citizens have the right to bear arms. It just all depends how they take action. According to a report by engineering statistician the general public is 5.7 times more likely to be arrested for violent offenses and 13.5 times more likely to be arrested for non-violent offenses‚ than concealed carry weapon permit holders. There are a lot of reason why some people want this law banned‚ but these arguments are outweighed only by the need of protection. The second Amendment guarantees the right to conceal
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3200 Professor Greig Mulberry November 28‚ 2012 Brittney Wiggs November 28‚ 2012 PHI 3200 Professor Greig Mulberry Case Study: Mr. Martinez The case study goes as such: Mr. Martinez was a seventy-five year old COPD (chronic obstructive pulmonary disease) patient. He was in the hospital because of an upper respiratory tract infection. He and his wife had already requested that CPR should not be performed if he required it and a DNR is placed in his charts. While in his room on third floor
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Coronary Artery Bypass Graft (CABG) is performed when a patient has disease of the coronary arteries. This is usually caused by atherosclerosis which is clogging of the arteries or hardening by cholesterol of plaque. Coronary Artery Bypass is done to improve the blood flow of the heart. The surgeon bypasses the obstructed artery using a healthy artery that is harvested from another part of the body and placed in the heart to reroute the blood flow around the blocked area. Usually the healthy vein is taken
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Background to product Artery aid is a new innovative product that is designed specifically to treat sufferers of peripheral arterial disease. Artery Aid was inspired by personnel experience within the group. Kate‚ one off the members of Artery Aid‚ has witnessed the effects of peripheral artery disease first as her own mother suffered from the disease. This is what first inspired our product. The two main methods of treating peripheral artery disease are exercise and heat. Exercise works by working
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William Harvey He concluded the systemic circulation of the blood accurately‚ he also concluded how the blood was pumped around the body from the heart and properties of blood. Harvey was an English physician who was the first to describe accurately how blood was pumped around the body by the heart. Ibn Al Nafis Ala-al-Din Abu al-Hasan Ali Ibn Abi al-Hazm al-Qarshi al-Dimashqi (known as Ibn Al-Nafis) was born in 1213 A.D. in Damascus. He was educated at the Medical College Hospital (Bimaristan
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Global Atmospheric Circulation This essay will describe patterns of atmospheric heating and circulation. When the surface air reaches the Equator‚ it gets heated and rises to the top of the troposphere‚ where it spreads back toward the poles. When it gets to the poles‚ it descends back to the surface again to complete the cycle. The heat of the Sun causes water to evaporate from lakes‚ rivers and oceans‚ as well as from the leaves of plants called (transpiration). But this water
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THE SIX RIGHTS OF DRUG ADMINISTRATION Right Drug Many drugs have similar spellings and variable concentrations. Before the administration of the medication‚ it is imperative to compare the exact spelling and concentration of the prescribed drug with the medication card or drug profile and the medication container. Regardless of the drug distribution system used‚ the drug label should be read at least three times: 1. Before removing the drug from the shelf or unit dose cart. 2
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