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The nurse is assessing a client with chronic hepatitis B who is receiving Lamivudine (Epivir). What information is most important to communicate to the physician? 1. The client’s daily record indicates a 3 kg weight gain over 2 days. 2. The client is complaining of nausea. 3. The client has a temperature of 99° F orally. 4. The client has fatigue. The nurse is assessing a client with hepatitis and notices that the AST and ALT lab values have increased. Which of the following statements
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essential to human life. First of all‚ organ transplant plays an important role in the medicine. The matter of fact is that there are a large number of patients who are not transplanted and it grows significantly years after years (may be 10-15%). As Aicha commented in the website Blurtit.com‚” the number of people in need of organ donations is increasing each year. According to current statistics‚ in China more than 2 million people require organ transplant‚ in UK this figure is 8000‚ in Latin America
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125 test 1A Student: ___________________________________________________________________________ 1. The breastbone is _____ to the vertebral column. A. anterior B. posterior C. superior D. inferior E. medial 2. The brain and the spinal cord are protected by A. a parietal layer. B. a visceral layer. C. mucous membranes. D. serous membranes. E. the meninges. 3. The system that exchanges carbon dioxide and oxygen and helps in speech is the _____ system‚ whereas the system that
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tissue donation. Organs that can be donated after death are the heart liver kidneys lungs pancreas and small intestines. Tissue donations include corneas skin veins heart valves tendons ligaments and bones. There are also a small number of organs that come from healthy people. There are about 6000 transplants from living donors performed each year. A healthy person can become a living donor by donating a kidney or a part of the liver lung intestine blood or bone marrow. Who can become a donor? Just about
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Nursing Care of the T-Tube after Cholecystectomy Also called a biliary draining tube. May be placed in the common bile duct after cholecystectomy or choledochostomy. The tube facilitates biliary drainage during healing. The surgeon inserts the short end (crossbar) into the common bile duct and draws the long end through an incision in the skin. The tube is then connected to a closed gravity drainage system. Post-operatively it remains in place between 7 to 14 days. Equipment Graduated collection
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SYNTHETIC BLOOD This is an artificial blood made up of synthetic blood products. 1. The two main types of non-cellular blood products are hemoglobin based and Perfluorocarbon (PFC) based. a. Hemoglobin The hemoglobin-based substitutes use hemoglobin from several different sources: human‚ animal‚ and recombinant. Human hemoglobin is obtained from donated blood that has reached its expiration date and from the small amount of red cells collected as a by-product during plasma donation.
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Digestion begins in the mouth when one eats food. It begins the moment one takes a sandwich bite. The teeth are used to break the sandwich that contains lettuce and pickles into smaller particles or boluses so that the enzymes can digest the food much easier. Lettuce contains carbohydrates‚ proteins and fat. The tongue helps turn food in the mouth and mix with the saliva in the mouth which contains salivary amylase enzyme. It then passes through the esophagus to the stomach which is a mixer and grinder
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There are different systems working together and form a human body work permit. One of this system is the important digestive system which consist of a cluster of organs‚ including the mouth‚ stomach and intestines. These organs allow the digestion of food. That means that digestion? It is a process of breaking down food into smaller components to make it easier absorption. There are three main steps in the digestive process: ingestion‚ digestion and absorption. The first step of the digestive process
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Jobi M. Troumbly Case study 17 Pages 85-89 1. Given the diagnosis of acute MI‚ what other lab results are you going to look at? CKMB‚ Troponin I‚ Myoglobin- which are all cardiac injury markers. ECGs done at an outside hospital or en route‚ noting the context in which notable ECGs were printed. 2. You find the following laboratory results in the patient’s chart. For each‚ interpret the result‚ and evaluate the meaning for C.B. a. Creatinine phosphokinase (CK) levels drawn on
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