Introduction Imagine waking up every morning immediately in pain. You don’t get the chance to develop a headache‚ eat something to make your stomach hurt‚ or step the wrong way and hurt your knee. You already experience it the second you open your eyes. This is the life of a person living with chronic pain. People don’t realize when someone is suffering from chronic pain because it’s a condition that doesn’t have visible characteristics. Due to not having visible characteristics and no way to
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Perioperative 5. Benzodiazepines ( Lorazepam/ Ativan) Classification: anesthetic adjuncts‚ antianxiety agents‚ sedative hypnotics Perioperative use: Decreases preoperative anxiety and provides amnesia. Adverse reactions: APNEA‚ CARDIAC ARREST‚ bradycardia‚ hypotension. Contraindications: Severe hypotension; Sleep apnea; OB‚ Lactation: Use in pregnancy and lactation may cause CNS depression. Do not use for pt. with seizure disorders. Interactions: Additive CNS depression with other CNS depressants
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In “The Secularization of Pain”‚ Canton charts how the social atmosphere influenced attitudes and beliefs surrounding pain from the Middle Ages onwards to the present day. In the Middle Ages‚ Canton states‚ “disease and pain were punishment‚ inflicted for breaking the divine law.” (494) Since‚ sin and pain were correlated‚ one can also expect there to be a stigma to sick people. So‚ religion acted as a hindrance to the alleviation of pain since it prevented one to venture out in that sphere. Hence
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LOW BACK PAIN – ACUTE It is the pain felt in your lower back which may come from the spine‚ muscles‚ nerves‚ or other nearby structures. It may also be due to problems in your mid or upper back‚ the testicles or ovaries‚ or a hernia in the groin. CAUSES * If you are like most people‚ you will have at least one backache in your life. While such pain or discomfort can happen anywhere in your back‚ the most common area affected is your low back. This is because the low back supports most of
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patient with acute abdominal pain Karen DeLawder Chamberlain College of Nursing NR305: Health Assessment Spring 2011 Assessment of the patient with acute abdominal pain Introduction Assessment of the patient with acute abdominal pain is an article published in the Nursing Standard Journal in the June 2006 issue‚ written by Elaine Cole‚ Antonia Lynch‚ and Helen Cugnoni. This article gives an in depth look at common diagnosis associated with abdominal pain. With each diagnosis the article
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Joint Pain - Knee Knee Pain The knee is the largest joint in the human body. It acts as a “hinge” allowing you to sit‚ squat‚ stand‚ jump‚ and walk. A thin layer called cartilage‚ which absorbs shock‚ covers the knee and helps glide the bone. Every year‚ approximately 18 million people of all ages visit the doctor for knee pain. Causes of Knee Pain Acute type of knee pain involves injury. This may include the knee being hit‚ fallen on‚ or twisted. It may also involve ligament tears or muscle strains
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Most likely diagnosis considering the clinical picture Localised chest pain over the sternum is a common symptom and can be an indicator of a large assembly of conditions. Commonly seen in cardiac diseases including angina pectoris‚ myocardial infarction and pericarditis (Patient.info‚ 2017). As well as in disorders of the gastroesophageal‚ psychiatric and pulmonary diseases; pneumothorax‚ gastro-oesophageal reflux disease‚ pleurisy‚ panic attack and pulmonary embolism (Kaski‚ 2016; Eslick‚ Jones
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DESCARTES’ GOD Do we need a watchmaker god or the Christian God and how is it related to living a good life? The subject of god has always fascinated me‚ and I love to read how others interpret their personal gods. It is also interesting to see how people prioritize their gods in their life and what importance they give their gods. I believe that the Christian God is the true God and exactly what we need to live a good life. We need to have a goal and an end‚ which is eternal happiness with
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Pain of losing someone According to Wikipedia‚ Pain is "an unpleasant sensory and emotional experience associated with actual or potential tissue damage‚ or described in terms of such damage." Pain to me has no definition because it is like my world is coming to an end and I do not know how to stop it. There are different types of pain‚ e.g. body pain‚ menstrual pain‚ chronic pain‚ and pain of losing someone. Losing someone very close is an extremely painful experience. People find it very tough
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taught in the Holy Scriptures‚ and‚ on the other hand‚ that we must believe the Holy Scriptures because they come from God “(Descartes 1). He then doubts himself if god does really exist. Through examining his thoughts‚ he ends up believing that the idea of God exists because of his innate idea of God which has to be God who “is the cause of this idea”(Descartes 25). Descartes then explains more in depth saying‚ “I have no choice but to conclude that the mere fact of my existing is and of there being
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