It is often thought that whooping cough is an outdated disease‚ due to the many ways we now have to combat the pathogen‚ but every year almost 400‚000 people die due to infection with Bordetella pertussis (1‚ 41). Bordetella pertussis is a gram-negative coccobacillus bacterium‚ which causes whooping cough in humans (1‚ 41). The bacterium is spread by air borne particles or mucus droplets and is highly contagious. Although there is no known reservoir for the pathogen humans can often be asymptomatic
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great achievement‚ despite the fact that competition was sparse and de Chauliac’s achievements relatively few. In his book commonly known as “Chirurgia Magna” written in 1363‚ he cites the difference between bubonic and pneumonic plagues‚ describes hernias and cataracts‚ and treatments for all. In fact‚ he did have many surviving patients during the pestilence due to his realisation that “laudible pus” was necessary in the healing process of buboes and wounds. Surgeons were outraged as cauterization
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“Can’t go around making excuses‚ blaming other people or other things. So I alone am the one who is responsible for what’s happened. The only motive that there ever was‚ was to completely control a person--a person I found physically attractive. And keep them with me as long as possible‚ even if it meant just keeping a part of them.” – Jeffrey Dahmer Above was one of Dahmer’s statements in his last television interview before his death in November 1994. The man was a murderer‚ someone who made painted
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The Aquatic Ape Theory Society hears the word “mermaid” and thinks about a mythical creature that sings and lives in the sea. The Aquatic Ape Theory takes the view of mermaids and tells one the real facts about ancient mermaids that humans are said to evolve from. One may wonder how mermaids have gone almost undetected for so many years. That is in fact because they live in parts of the oceans that humans have never explored. Scientists have recently discovered two new breeds of whales‚ the biggest
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DISCUSSION QUESTIONS Chapter 1 - Finding Your Inner Fish 1. Explain why the author and his colleagues chose to focus on 375 million year old rocks in their search for fossils. Be sure to include the types of rocks and their location during their paleontology work in 2004. They chose to focus on 375 million year old rock because fish and amphibians found a few million years earlier‚ fish withou2t amphibian characteristics were found and a few million years later creatures with amphibian characteristics
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What Broke My Father’s Heart by Katy Butler‚ published June 14‚ 2010 in the New York Times One October afternoon three years ago while I was visiting my parents‚ my mother made a request I dreaded and longed to fulfill. She had just poured me a cup of Earl Grey from her Japanese iron teapot‚ shaped like a little pumpkin; outside‚ two cardinals splashed in the birdbath in the weak Connecticut sunlight. Her white hair was gathered at the nape of her neck‚ and her voice was low. “Please help me get
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Chapter 10 Muscles 1) The study of the muscular system is known as a) kinesiology. b) pathophysiology. c) myology. d) biology. e) neurology. 2) All of the following are functions of muscles except a) stability. b) heat production. c) control of openings. d) secretion. e) respiration. 3) What term best describes the relationship between the pronator teres and supinator? a) Fixators b) Antagonists c) Synergists d) prime movers e) depressors 4) Muscle fibers are arranged in
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CHAPTER 5 Content of the Patient Record: Inpatient‚ Outpatient‚ and Physician Office Chapter Outline Key Terms Objectives Introduction General Documentation Issues Hospital Inpatient Record—Administrative Data Hospital Inpatient Record—Clinical Data Hospital Outpatient Record Physician Office Record Forms Control and Design Internet Links Summary Study Checklist Chapter Review Key Terms addressograph machine admission note admission/discharge record admitting diagnosis advance directive
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Best Practice & Research Clinical Anaesthesiology 24 (2010) 365e374 Contents lists available at ScienceDirect Best Practice & Research Clinical Anaesthesiology journal homepage: www.elsevier.com/locate/bean 6 Neonatal fluid management Isabelle Murat‚ MD‚ PhD *‚ Alexis Humblot‚ MD‚ Laure Girault‚ MD‚ Federica Piana‚ MD Department of Anesthesia‚ Hôpital d’Enfants Armand Trousseau‚ 26 avenue du Dr Arnold Netter‚ 75571 Paris‚ Cedex 12‚ France Keywords: blood transfusion colloid
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GI Terminologies Visceral pain; dull poorly localized pain Somatic pain; sharp pain‚ well localized Referred pain; pain experience at a distance from disease process Fetor hepaticus; sweet fecal odor caused by hepatic failure Feculent breath; foul fecal odor caused by severe bowel obstruction Severe halitosis; foul breath odor can be caused by poor dental hygience or neoplasms or esophagus and stomach Jaundice; yellowish discoloration of skin caused by high bilirubin level associated with
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