2. A single tube of cerebrospinal fluid is received in the laboratory and the following tests requested: total protein‚ albumin‚ IgG quantitation‚ microbial culture‚ Gram stain‚ leukocyte count and differential cell count. The specimen should be sent to the various laboratories in which order? a. Chemistry lab‚ hematology lab‚ microbiology lab b. Hematology lab‚ chemistry lab‚ microbiology lab c. Microbiology lab‚ hematology lab‚ chemistry lab d. Hematology lab‚ microbiology lab‚ chemistry
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History and symptoms • When was the onset of the turn? The onset is important as it can help to classify the strabismus. If the squint is present before the age of one then it could be known as infantile esotropia‚ this is idiopathic and can occur up the age of six months‚ due to the imbalance of the eye muscles. If a squint has presented itself in children who are 2years old or older‚ then this could just be as simple as uncorrected refractive error. As uncorrected refractive error can induce strabismus
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[side way movement and twisting.]. Constant combinations of the two movements can put great strain on to the back‚ which can then result in a slipped disc. A slipped disk can occur due to any one of the following‚ lifting‚ trauma‚ injury or an idiopathic reason. The discs are protective pads which lay between each vertebrae. The discs job is to cushion and as shock absorbers to the spine when the body is moving. A slipped disc can occur along the complete length of the spinal column from the neck
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GBS is a disorder in which the immune system attacks part of the peripheral nervous system‚ which is made up of nerves that extend out from the central nervous system. There are multiple names for this disorder for example it may be called‚ Acute Idiopathic Polyneuritis‚ Acute Inflammatory Demyelination‚ and Landry- Guillain-Barre syndrome. Guillain- Barre syndrome can affect anybody at any age; people over the age of 40 are more likely to get the disorder than younger people are. Also race and
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Type 1 diabetes is an autoimmune disease that causes the insulin producing beta cells in the pancreas to be destroyed‚ preventing the body from being able to produce enough insulin to adequately regulate blood glucose levels. Type 1 diabetes may sometimes be referred to as juvenile diabetes‚ because it is commonly diagnosed in children and the condition can develop at any age. Insulin dependent diabetes is another term used to describe type 1 diabetes. Since type 1 diabetes causes the loss of insulin
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NURSING CARE PLAN Nurs 326 SFSU Student Name: Alena Makarava Instructor/Clinical Site Gerardo Caritan‚ RN‚ MSN Date: 2/26/2015 Ms. X is a 34 year old female. The patient is a G3 P2‚ with both children delivered by C-section‚ with the only complication in both being low birth weights. Ms. X has a longstanding history of hypertension‚ anxiety and depression. Additional health history includes a vitamin D deficiency‚ back surgery in 05/06 due to a herniated disc‚ and two previous cesarean
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MSc in Cardiology 2010-2011-CVSM 5001 Basic Cardiology (28 Dec 2010) Objectives of this Lecture Termination of Pregnancy: Ethical and Practical Consideration Tam‚ Wing Hung Associate Professor Department of Obstetrics & Gynaecology CUHK 1. Importance of pre‐conceptional counselling for patients with cardiac disease 2. Conditions for TOP 3. Legal aspect of TOP 4. Methods of TOP 5. Risk of TOP: specific to cardiac patient 6. An example of cardiomyopathy Physiological Changes • Increase in the intravascular volume
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the spleen‚ and our bodies actually create our own cannabinoid proteins‚ which contains no psychoactive component. Therefore‚ the human body creates its own cannabis. Personally‚ being through what I have been through with my chronic illness; Idiopathic Intracranial Hypertension (IIH)‚ and the numerous amounts of pharmaceutical drugs I have been prescribed. I have had severe allergic reactions to various pharmaceutical drugs‚ a medication induced seizure‚ and could have possibly overdosed due
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spina bifida and other neural tube defects are born to parents with no family history of these disorders. If one child has spina bifida‚ the risk of recurrence in any other pregnancy is greatly increased‚ to about one in 40. Spina Bifida is idiopathic meaning there is no cause to why this occurs. The word spina bifida means cleft spine which is the incomplete development of the CNS. Scientists suspect that the lack of folic acid in the mothers diet could cause a defect in the neural tube. Doctors
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Annotated Bibliography: Patients with Opioid Induced Constipation Resolved with Supplements or Suppositories Lionell H. Edwards Chamberlain College of Nursing NR 500 Foundational Concepts and Application Annotated Bibliography: Patients with Opioid Induced Constipation Resolved with Supplements or Suppositories Na‚ J.‚ Oh‚ K.‚ Park‚ S.‚ Bae‚ D.‚ Choi‚ E. J.‚ Jung‚ M. A.‚ & ... Kim‚ S. (2013). The laxative effects of Maesil ( Prunus mume Siebold & Zucc.) on constipation induced by a low-fibre
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