Health Psychology Assignment 4 PASS Terminal disease is made up of two words‚ Terminal and Disease. Terminal basically means end or pertaining to the end or extremity and diseases means illness. Terminal disease is defines as those diseases that cannot ever be cured or adequately treated and for that reason‚ it is likely to cause death to the patient in a relatively short time. The terminal illness that I have chosen to research is Coronary Heart Disease. This is the result of plaque build-up
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Do you know how many people visit the emergency room a day? According to (admin‚ 2011) there is about 1.7 million people that visit an emergency room a day. Most people think that hospital emergency rooms are scary‚ but also find that they are very interesting. They like to work at jobs that keep them on their toes. About 15% of emergency room visits are for fever and pain. Emergency rooms are the busiest place in a hospital. Here are three key points he found. Emergency rooms are set
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Introduction This essay will include a case study about a patient nursed with the supervision of a registered nurse during a clinical placement. It will demonstrate the ability to assess and develop a care plan for this patient. For this case study‚ the patient’s name will be changed to Paul and confidentiality will be kept at all times. The nursing process will be described and used to develop a nursing care plan for the above patient. The setting is an integrated hospital service made up of
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Unit 7. Assignment 2. The Effects of Selected Drugs and Diseases on the Central Nervous System. Alcohol’s use as an anesthetic is based on the effects it has on the brain‚ including relaxation and insensitivity to pain. Because the anesthetizing effects of alcohol are less predictable than the drugs available to modern-day anesthetists‚ alcohol is no longer used professionally to anesthetize patients. Some diseases related to alcohol are: liver disease‚ high blood pressure‚ muscle weakness‚ anemia
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Uses of echocardiography Echocardiography (echo) can be used to evaluate your cardiac performance‚ the function of your heart valves‚ the thickness and motion of your heart walls‚ and the size of your heart chambers. An echo can help diagnose many heart conditions. Cardiac performance An echocardiogram can show how well your heart pumps blood (cardiac performance). To evaluate your cardiac performance‚ your doctor will mainly be interested in: • Your left ventricle‚ which pumps oxygen-rich
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Topic: Health‚ Diet and Diseases Title: Substance Abuse and Heart Disease Problem Statement: In Trinidad and Tobago there has been a reported increase in the number of Cardiac disease related deaths. Design an experiment to investigate the relationship between a particular lifestyle choice and the health of an individual’s heart. Hypothesis: The more cigarettes villagers living within Philadelphia Trace smoke the higher the blood pressure of those villagers. Aim: To plan and Design
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HDL and LDL HDL means high density lipoproteins‚ Lipoproteins are a combination of lipid and proteins. They are very essential for the body to restore tissues and cell membranes. High density lipoproteins move very easily throughout the blood‚ they do not get stuck in it. HDLs are produced by the combination of unsaturated fats‚ cholesterol and protein. These tend to carry cholesterol from the tissues to the liver to be broken down. LDL or low density lipoprotein is the major cholesterol carrier
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The heart is one of the most important organs in the body. All living things have a heartbeat‚ rather it be a healthy one or a not so healthy one. If your heart is not beating then I am saddened to tell you that you are dead‚ not that you would be able to hear me or care what I have to say. The four chambers consist of the right and left atrium and right and left atrium. Each of the chambers has valves. The tricuspid valve‚ mitral valve‚ pulmonary valve‚ and the aortic valve are their names. Their
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The importance of HDL The high-density lipoproteins (HDL) do a valuable job in scavenging excess cholesterol from circulation and returning it to the liver for excretion. For this reason‚ HDL is often called the ‘good’ cholesterol. However‚ more recently‚ HDL has been found to have additional properties such as anti-inflammatory and antioxidant behaviour. More focus is being placed on increasing HDL‚ especially in cases where LDL (bad cholesterol) lowering has not been sufficiently effective. Cholesterol
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Alyssa McCutchen Period 6 3/15/12 How My Optimism Helps Me Overcome Obstacles Optimism is such a funny thing. It has the capability to help you solve some of the most challenging and troublesome problems you’ll ever face in your entire life. This is exactly what optimism does for me. I have had some of the most challenging and troublesome things happen to me and using optimism during those times really helped me through them‚ and I honestly don’t think I would have made it through all of
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