• Physical and chemical agents (thermal injury‚ e.g.‚ burns or frostbite; irradiation; some environmental chemicals) • Tissue necrosis (from any cause) • Foreign bodies (splinters‚ dirt‚ sutures) • Immune reactions (also called hypersensitivity reactions Cardinal signs of inflammation [pic] Celsus‚ a Roman writer of the first century AD‚ first listed the four cardinal signs of
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Review of Knowledge- NR 291 Chapters 2-7‚ 36 & 37; Part 1 Chapter 2: Pharmacologic Principles “Any chemical that affects the physiologic processes of a living organism can broadly be defined as a drug. The study or science of drugs is known as pharmacology. Without understanding basic pharmacologic principles‚ the nurse cannot fully appreciate the therapeutic benefits and potential toxicity of drugs. Drugs are grouped together based on their similar properties. This is known as a drug classification
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INTRODUCTION Dengue Fever is caused by one of the four closely related‚ but antigenically distinct‚ virus serotypes Dengue type 1‚ Dengue type 2‚ Dengue type 3‚ and Dengue type 4 of the genus Flavivirus and Chikungunya virus. Infection with one of these serotype provides immunity to only that serotype of life‚ to a person living in a Dengue-endemic area can have more than one Dengue infection during their lifetime. Dengue fever through the four different Dengue serotypes are maintained in the
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been written off as an accurate and understandable portrayal of a reaction one would expect? (PTSD‚ also known as Post-Traumatic Stress Disorder‚ is an anxiety disorder characterized by insomnia‚ social withdrawal‚ haunting memories‚ and/or hypersensitivity to select situations or objects after a traumatic experience; Charlie has had experience with all.) Due to personal bias with this disorder latter sections of this analysis may or may not directly oppose with the message of what Charlie has to
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written on accounts of the Vietnam War. Many of the stories in this book encompass various examples of Post-Traumatic Stress Disorder. There are graphical depictions of PTSD symptoms with references to recurring nightmares‚ intrusive thoughts‚ hypersensitivity‚ avoidance behavior‚ memories‚ and feelings. These signs of stress disorder are evident in the author and his characters in almost all of his short stories. In the story “Speaking of Courage‚” Norman Bowker has dreams and fantasizes about talking
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Attention Deficit Hyperactivity Disorder In Adults Oh Look! A Shiny Penny! Abstract Attention Deficit Hyperactivity Disorder (ADHD) is a brain disorder that affects the way nerves develop and the why individuals process thoughts and control actions. Individuals with ADHD tend to have difficulty maintaining focus and remembering details . ADHD has been thought to be a childhood disorder and that the disorder somehow disappears as a child grows older. Though ADHD is most common
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Title: A comparison between the efficacy and safety of different doses of “Gabapentin” as treatment of uremic pruritus in patients on haemodialysis. Keywords: Efficacy‚ safety‚ “Gabapentin”‚ uremic pruritus and haemodialysis. Background: Pruritus is defined as" localized unpleasant sensation that induces a desire to scratch"‚ it is considered one of the frequent manifestations that occur in many systemic diseases such as biliary obstruction‚ neurological diseases and endocrine disorders.(1) The
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Overview‚ “In 2001‚ The Institute of Medicine’s Immunization Safety Review Committee issued a report concluding that there was not enough evidence to prove or disprove claims that thimerosal in childhood vaccines causes autism‚ attention deficit hypersensitivity disorder‚ or speech or language delay. A more recent report by the committee "favors rejection of a causal relationship between thimerosal-containing vaccines and autism." Even with this finding‚ some researchers continue to study the
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The Psychopathology and Treatment of Bipolar Disorder The concept of a drastic shift in mood being classified as an illness was first described by the French psychiatrist Jean-Pierre Farlet in 1851 (Marmol‚ 2008). Farlet coined the term “Folie Circulaire” to label a disorder characterized by manic and sad episodes separated by symptom-free intervals (Marmol‚ 2008). As time passed‚ the description along with the classification changed‚ altering from an entity on its own to a unified disorder with
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Chemicals in medicines Rakesh Mohan Hallen The words medicine’ and ’drug’ are often used in our country to mean the same substances: any substance‚ manufactured artificially‚ which can help recovery from sickness‚ relieve symptoms or modify a natural process in the body. A medicine is often a mixture of several chemical compounds. Even if it has only one active component compound often other substances are used as fillers or binders to give it bulk. Chemistry‚ the science related to chemical substances
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