Blood is pumped through the body by the heart by two different circuits‚ one of the circuits in the systemic circuit and the second circuit is the pulmonary circuit. The system circuit‚ starts via the left atrium and passing the mistral valve down into the left ventricle. The ventricle will then contract shortly after the atria have started relaxing and followed by the closing of the atrioventricular valves‚ so blood does not back wash into the atrium. Pressure will becoming higher in the left
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The film “There will be Blood‚” was directed and screen written by Paul Thomas Anderson and was released in 2007. The main character was an unexpected and mysterious man named Daniel Plainview‚ who surprised everyone at least one time during the whole film. It is a good movie because you have to really look deep and tie everything together and figure it out‚ showing that there is a deeper meaning then its made out to be. The film is in the perfect genre category‚ which is drama. The conflicts in
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Today‚ one of my patients presented to the ED with a 3cm laceration on his right hand that was three days old. He also reported a pain level of 7/10. First‚ my nurse preceptor and I had the patient wash his hands with soap and water to remove the dirt and bacteria from the wound. Thereafter‚ we sprayed wound cleanser to the wound and rinsed it with normal saline to further aide in removing debris and decreasing bacterial counts. After‚ I dried the wound edges with a sterile gauze. This is done in
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Appearance and Character “Maybe the two different worlds we lived in weren’t so different. We saw the same sunset” (41) ponders Ponyboy‚ a Greaser‚ when he realizes social class does not define a person. S.E. Hinton’s The Outsiders tells of a town where social class splits the citizens into the lower class Greasers‚ who others view as horrible‚ selfish‚ tough‚ trouble-making criminals‚ and the upper class Socs or Socials‚ who the townspeople view as the privileged‚ wealthy‚ law-abiding people. Throughout
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Appearances are Deceptive Outwardly appearances are many times deceptive. It is not always correct to make judgment about anything by its exterior appearance. One can’t find the real worth of any one just by seeing his external appearances. Not all who looks decent outside are decent inside too. One should be judged only by their characters and not by their outward appearance. In real life situation‚ many crooks‚ by their outward attitude and behavior‚ make themselves appear to
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The authors conducted focus groups to identify nurse-patient behaviours likely to be categorized as physically violent‚ explore thoughts and feelings in response to patient violence‚ and describe team responses to the incidents. The study found that nurses shared information about episodes of violence to colleagues through different communication methods‚ protected themselves and others‚ adopted non-therapeutic strategies when dealing with patients and felt emotional after a violent incident. One of
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Blood Disorders Carl Jones HCA/240 November 20‚ 2011 Lily‚ a 4-year-old Caucasian female‚ has she been complaining of being tired all the time. She is pale and is a picky eater. Her mother is a single mom with a small budget to feed a large family. Lily eats only pasta‚ breads‚ and hot dogs‚ and she drinks only artificial fruit punch. Lily has iron deficiency anemia. In this first scenario I think that Lily has Pernicious Anemia or else identified as Vitamin B12 anemia. Several
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Assessing Blood Pressure Anatomy of the Heart The heart is located in the thoracic cavity between the lungs within the mediastinum. It is a hollow‚ cone-shaped‚ muscular organ about the size of a fist. Functions of the Heart keeps O2-poor blood separate from O2-rich blood; keeps the blood flowing in one direction—blood flows away from and then back to the heart in each circuit; creates blood pressure‚ which moves the blood through the circuits; Regulates the blood supply based on
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Topic: The Process of Blood Donation General goal: To inform. Specific goal: To explain the process of donating blood Thesis Statement: I am going to be talking about the steps for donating blood‚ including the preparation‚ the drawing of blood‚ the recovery process‚ and what is done with the blood afterwards. Introduction: 1. As stated in the Merriam-Webster Collegiate Dictionary in 2004‚ “blood is the fluid that circulates in the heart‚ arteries‚ capillaries‚ and veins of a vertebrate
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Donating Blood Imagine that your father had just suffered a heart attack‚ and has to go through open-heart surgery in order to repair the damage that happened to his heart. Imagine your little nephew or niece was born with a rare heart defect and had to have a daily transfusion of blood in order to have a chance to wake up the next day. Imagine that your best friend went to the doctor and had just been diagnosed with leukemia‚ a disease requiring regular platelet transfusions. These aren’t
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