the Therac-6 and Therac-20 units (the earlier units had been produced in partnership with CGR of France). It was involved in at least six accidents between 1985 and 1987‚ in which patients were given massive overdoses of radiation‚ approximately 100 times the intended dose. These accidents highlighted the dangers of software control of safety-critical systems‚ and they have become a standard case study in health informatics and software engineering. WHAT WAS THERAC -25? Therac-25 was used in the treatment of cancer
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Title: Safety of clonidine and quetiapine in post-cardiac surgery intensive care unit patients Purpose: Critical care of the cardiac surgical patient is a challenging and dynamic topic that requires a multidisciplinary team to ensure patient safety. Moreover‚ clonidine and quetiapine are commonly used agents in intensive care unit (ICU) settings. However‚ the safety of these agents in cardiac surgery patients is yet to be established. Hence‚ our goal is to assess the safety of oral clonidine and
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1. Review the generalized areas of nursing knowledge Responsible for the actions and effects of medications Responsible to understand disease processes and common treatment regimens Responsible to know why a med is prescribed for a patient Accountable to utilize available resources as a guide Accountable to serve as a patient advocate and know patients rights 2. Define the proper technique for ear drop administration for adults and children? Adults: pull upward and toward back of head Child: (under
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Session 28 Safety Pharmacology Studies for Human Pharmaceuticals This guidance was developed to help protect clinical trial participants and patients receiving marketed products from potential adverse effects of pharmaceuticals‚ while avoiding unnecessary use of animals and other resources. This guidance provides a definition‚ general principles‚ and recommendations for safety pharmacology studies. Pharmacology studies have been performed worldwide for many years as part of the nonclinical
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happened in this case? Acetaminophen is an active ingredient in Benadryl® Maximum Strength Severe Allergy and Sinus along with Diphenhydramine and Pseudoephedrine. In each capsule‚ there is 500 mg of acetaminophen‚ therefore the is 1000 mg in one dose‚ and 4000 mg
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Alternative Chronic Pain Treatment for the Substance Abuser In the United States‚ there are more than 100 million people suffering from some sort of chronic pain. With the most common treatment is being prescribed medications such as a non-steroidal anti-inflammatory‚ or opioids (Boyles‚ 2011). Treating chronic pain with opioids can be affective. But the long term use presents many problems. Especially with treating a substance abuser of prescription or nonprescription opioid drugs. Patients that
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BUSINESS PLAN Gothenburg 2012-12-17 Written by: Executive Summary Wounds that are hard to heal are an increasing problem throughout the world. Millions of people suffer from them and treatment is both costly‚ time consuming and causes patients pain and discomfort. Dative is a biotechnology research company that is developing two different technologies in order to produce a solution to this problem. One is the PolySel© - an absorbent gel formula which can be used together with various
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Withhold the next dose of furosemide. c. Document the findings and reassess in 1 hour. d. Check the patient for other symptoms of digitalis toxicity. Question 4 Marks: 1 The physician has ordered the adrenergic drug doxazosin (Cardura)‚ an antihypertensive drug‚ for a patient. When providing education about this drug‚ the nurse should include which instructions? Choose one answer. a. The patient should take her first dose while lying down because there is a first-dose effect with
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knows‚ Lily generalizes all black women to have the same competency as Rosaleen. This shows that it is not ethical to generalize races capability’s based of one person. Similarly‚ Lily thinks black women can be smart but their Haniff 2 intelligence dose not measure to that of a white women’s‚ until she meets August. Lily thinks to herself: “T.Ray did not think colored women were smart. Since I want to tell the whole truth‚ which means the worst parts‚ I thought they could be smart‚ not as smart as
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CHAPTER NO.1 INTRODUCTION HYPERTENSION: INTRODUCTION: This means abnormally elevated blood pressure. It may refer to increase blood pressure in any blood vessels‚ such as pulmonary or portal hypertension. However‚ it usually refers to an elevated systemic arterial blood pressure. Hypertension is not a disease but physical finding. 1.1 DEFINITION: Hypertension may be define as either a sustained systolic blood pressure (SBP) of greater than 140 mmHg or a sustained diastolic
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