Echocardiography Workshop Paul Lindower‚ MD‚ FASE Associate Professor of Clinical Medicine University of Iowa Hospitals Friday October 6‚ 2006 Echocardiography for the Primary Care Practitioner • Educational Objectives: – Understand the Bernoulli and Continuity equations and how they may be used to assess valvular disease – Recognize echo techniques to assess the severity of mitral regurgitation and their limitations – Describe what factors determine whether a pericardial effusion promotes
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. According to the latest statistics the life expectancy in UK is 79.9 which is much better when compared to other nations(UK national statistics‚2008).The government has introduced several policies to increase the quality of life of the people. In this assignment am going to have a brief look on the different health indicators in UK and the challenges faced by health care team in meeting those needs. “Life expectancy is the expected number of years of life remaining at a given age(Wikipedia)"
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Haptics in military applications Lauri Immonen University of Tampere Department of Computer Sciences Computer Science / Int. Technology Seminar paper: Haptics in military applications December 2008 i University of Tampere Department of Computer Sciences Computer Science / Interactive Technology Lauri Immonen: Haptics in Military Applications Seminar paper‚ 14 pages‚ 4 index and reference pages December 2008 Haptic applications are used versatilely in the military field. Haptics
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Practice development issues around Induced Therapeutic Hypothermia (ITH) on Cardiac Arrest Patients Contents 1. Introduction 2. Pathophysiological changes during cardiac arrest and return of spontaneous circulation 3. Physiological benefits of therapeutic hypothermia 4. Guideline for induced therapeutic hypothermia after cardiac arrest 5. The UHL guideline’s goal of therapeutic hypothermia 6. Preparation‚ Monitoring and Supportive therapy 7. Cooling Methods 8. The relative experience 9
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BASIC PATHOLOGY PAPER ASSIGNMENT HFS 3252 LECTURER’S NAME: DR ROCHMAN NAIM TITLE: METABOLIC STRESS‚ BURN AND SURGERY AND THEIR NUTRITION THERAPY PREPARED BY: LEONG SIM KIAN STUDENT NO.10 028112 SUBMITTED DATE: 31 MARCH 2011 1 1 2 3 4 5 In its never-ending quest to maintain homeostasis‚ the human body responds to stress‚ physiologic or psychological‚ with a chain reaction that involves the central nervous system and hormones that affect the entire body. Magnitude and
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the SpO2 alarm and takes patient’s blood pressure. Blood pressure and SpO2 drop even further to 58/30 and 79% respectively; there is no palpable pulse. A code is called‚ when the monitor is connected the patient is in VF. CPR‚ IVS‚ medications and intubation are initiated. The patient is not responding to stimuli‚ pupils are fixed and dilated. Patient was taken by air transport to a tertiary
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by writer and learn deeply about the content of the journal of a research study. Ventilator associated pneumonia (VAP) is defined by the American Thoracic Society (1996) as nosocomial pneumonia that occurs after the first 48 hours of intubation and mechanically ventilated (cited K. Libby‚ 2007). Ventilator associated pneumonia is the main cause of mortality and greater impact on morbidity of patients that are hospitalized and ventilated in ICU (Tablan et al‚ 2004; Chastre and Fagon‚ 2002;
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Impact of a standardized hand hygiene program on the incidence of nosocomial infection in very low birth weight infants Maria Grazia Capretti‚ MD‚a Fabrizio Sandri‚ MD‚a Elisabetta Tridapalli‚ MD‚a Silvia Galletti‚ MD‚a Elisabetta Petracci‚ MD‚b and Giacomo Faldella‚ PhDa Bologna‚ Italy Background: This study examined the effects of a standardized hand hygiene program on the rate of nosocomial infection (NI) in very low birth weight (VLBW) infants (birth weight ‚ 1500 g) admitted to our neonatal
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Genitourinary- 40 questions Assessment Findings *PAIN won’t always be present. KIDNEY: (dull constant ache) Not always present if pt has renal disease (don’t have w/ proteinuria or hematuria) Have CVA tenderness (hit hand over kidney)‚ lower abdominal pain‚ intermittent pain(indicates renal stones)‚ flank pain (side) N/V‚ diaphoresis‚ s/sx of shock. Cause: Acute obstruction like stone‚ clot BLADDER- lower ABD pain (usually seen w/ distention) dull‚ continuous pain may be intense after voiding
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Running head: INTERVENTION PAPER Intervention Paper: Treatment Paradigm of Elderly Trauma Patients N569 Darren J Hunt‚ RN College of Nursing University of New Mexico Abstract As the population of our world grows older on average‚ the question of how to care for them becomes increasingly complex. With the longer life expectancy there exists a kind of Achilles heal regarding elderly trauma patients and the response to treatment for life-threatening injuries. The older trauma patient
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