still can’t draw distinction between me and others. So what is the real feature of mine‚ a rock-addict? It’s indeed one inner factor called “passionate rock stream”. For the first time I listened to rock music‚ I could feel it immediately in my veins. That invisibly special stream keeps flowing inside me‚ and four years ago‚ it made me - a timid high school freshman - braver and inspired me to found a rock club. I’m still able to recall myself adhering posters to all bulletin boards‚ arranging
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and Glasgow coma scale. All these combined measurement can give us an insight into the patient’s health or Physiological state. 2.1 The heart is simple a pump which forces the blood around our bodies through the pipe work we call our arteries and veins. We can measure this force on our vascular system by measuring our blood pressure. Blood pressure is measured in millimeters of mercury (mmHg) and it is recorded as two figures. Normal blood pressure is normally around 120/80. When the heart beats
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I like how each part of the story shows how cold it was and how it wasn’t easy to travel through the forest‚ it was a big daring task. I like the realism in it because it shows what it was really like. Often times even in history books stories of voyages and long travels are fantasized and don’t have that aspect of it being hard and unbearable at some points of the
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As a history text‚ criticism tends to link Travels to the historical works of Clarendon‚ as Swift considered him the most important historian of the seventeenth century (Brownley xiii). At every stage of Gulliver’s Travels‚ the fantastic elements are subservient to Swift’s satire and critical thinking. Swift is hardly an exception in this regard. Almost from the birth of storytelling‚ works of imaginative fiction
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PAIN MANAGEMENT IN THE EMERGENCY MEDICINE DEPARTMENT Associate Professor Peter Manning Emeritus Consultant Emergency Medicine Department National University Hospital‚ Singapore Jan 2004 Revised Aug 07 / Feb 08 / Nov 09 / Dec 11 / Dec 12 Accepted practice patterns must be questioned – implementation of pain score to vital signs We underestimate the pain produced by common practical procedures Analogy – just as we vary antibiotics according to sensitivities‚ perhaps we should be prepared
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Chapter 38: Nursing Management: Vascular Disorders Test Bank MULTIPLE CHOICE 1. When discussing risk factor modification for a 63-year-old patient who has a 5-cm abdominal aortic aneurysm‚ the nurse will focus discharge teaching on which patient risk factor? a. Male gender b. Turner syndrome c. Abdominal trauma history d. Uncontrolled hypertension ANS: D All of the factors contribute to the patient’s risk‚ but only hypertension can potentially be modified to decrease the patient’s risk for further
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Popliteal aneurysms are swelling of an artery. They are thought to be caused by atherosclerosis. These aneurysms are also correlated with the causes that develop aortic aneurysms. The wall of the popliteal artery is weakened‚ and thought to be because of inherited factors. In patients with multiple aneurysms in different arteries‚ it is theorized that there is an underlying weakness in the tissues. The exact nature of this has not been clarified at this time. Possibly the propensity of the
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(1545-1596) was a British explorer‚ slave-trader‚ privateer (a pirate working for a government) in the service of England‚ mayor of Plymouth‚ England‚ and naval officer (he was an Admiral). Drake led the second expedition to sail around the world in a voyage lasting from 1577 to 1580. Queen Elizabeth I commissioned Drake to command the expedition together with John Winter and Thomas Doughty. They left Plymouth‚ England‚ on December 13‚ 1577‚ with six ships. In his lifetime‚ many thought of him with mixed
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In The Moor’s last Sigh’‚ we witness a reeling pageant of mad passions and dark secrets‚ deep crimes and high art‚ poignant innocence and cruel revenge‚ hopping in a careful‚ calculated manner across four generations of a rich and demented Indian family. Salman Rushdie’s cynical post-modernistic novel The Moor’s Last Sigh’ laughs mischievously at the world and shivers from its evils. It is also‚ by analogy‚ one version of the history of India in the 20th century. Weaving a tale of murder and suicide
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and invaded the Aztecs of Mexico in 1518. His voyage was funded by merchants and was blessed by the deputies of God with the promise of him returning with gold. When he arrived in Vera Cruz with a fleet of ships‚ the Aztec God‚ Montezuma knew there was something wrong with Cortes. Yet‚ the benevolent Aztecs greeted Cortes. “…he (Montezuma) sent hundreds of runners to Cortes‚ bearing enormous treasures‚ gold and silver wrought into objects of fantastic beauty…”(Zinn 11). That was all the proof Cortes
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