oedema. She also had clubbing of finger nails. She had laboured breathing‚ chest recession and bilateral crepitations on auscultation. A repeat haemoglobin level estimation gave a result of 2g/dl. Blood for grouping and cross match was taken and the obstetrician ordered blood transfusion of three units of packed cells if available otherwise whole blood. This was not available till in the morning at 8.30AM when two units of whole blood were availed. Since admission the patient was put on Oxygen and the
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CHAPTER TWO REASONS OF CHILD MARRIAGE Every girl has dreams about her wedding day. After all‚ it is supposed to be one of the most important days of her life. But somehow it is doubtful that somewhere in that dream any girl imagines she would still be an actual child on that day. Yet that is the reality for many child brides in many different parts of the world Despite many countries in Africa enacting marriageable age laws to limit marriage to a minimum age of 16 or 18 depending on the jurisdiction
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Brooke Morris Professor McGriff Comp II 26 November 2012 3‚584 words Abortions Abortions are one of the many things that everyone has an opinion on. As defined by the 2012 Merriam-Webster dictionary‚ an Encyclopedia Britannica Company‚ an abortion is‚ “the termination of a pregnancy after‚ accompanied by‚ resulting in‚ or closely followed by the death of the embryo or fetus
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experience a nosocomial infection (Biddle‚ 2009). With this staggering fact‚ patient safety and infection prevention is at the forefront of healthcare. Many changes have occurred in this area since the 1840s. This is when Semmelweis‚ a Viennese obstetrician‚ made the observation‚ that women giving birth in an institutional setting 20% of them died of a febrile illness‚ whereas only about 1% in the home setting. He suggested that somehow a toxin was being spread from patient to patient on the hands
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Huxtable and their five children. The show goes away from the one-liners that most sitcoms boasted and focused on the humor of real life situations that often occur in an average middle class family. Dr. Heathcliff Huxtable was a successful OB/GYN (obstetrician/gynecologist)‚ who was equally as involved in domestic tasks as his wife Clair. Cliff had a great part in raising his five children and dealing with their emotional and physical problems. Cliff’s wife Clair Huxtable was a successful partner in
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A STUDY OF THE CAUSES OF MATERNAL MORTALITY IN RURAL AREAS IN UGANDA CASE STUDY: MITYANA HOSPITAL BY SEMPA FATUMAH 10/U/4724/BEK/PD A RESEARCH PROPOSAL SUBMITTED TO THE DEPARTMENT OF ECONOMICS AND STATISTIC IN PARTIAL FULFILLMENT OF THE REQUIREMENTS OF THE AWARD OF THE DEGREE OF ECONOMICS AND STATISTICS OF KYAMBOGO UNIVERSITY. FEBUARY 2012 List of acronyms ➢ MMR- Maternal Mortality Rate ➢ IMR
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life threatening situations in labour it is important that the signs of Obstructed & Prolonged labour identified early in Peripherals where the emergency management facilities are not available. BACKGROUND: Friedman is the first Obstetrician to provide a tool for the assessment of individual labour (Cervicograph).In 1972‚ Philpott developed Partogram from Cervicograph in Zimbabwe and Later Philpott and Castle introduced an ‘Action Line’ & ‘Alert Line’ in the Partogram. John Studd promoted
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caretaker for her. She also gains a reputation for her loyalty to her mother-in-law. This is in contrast to the reputation of Ruth Dead’s father with her husband‚ Macon Dead Sr. Macon Dead Sr. despises the idea of Ruth’s father‚ Dr. Foster‚ being the obstetrician for his pregnant wife. Macon Sr. did not like Dr. Foster’s “notion of his being his own daughter’s doctor”(Morrison 70). Although Macon Dead Sr. felt strongly about this‚ Ruth stands loyally by her father’s decision and agrees that he would be
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After the pivotal discovery of bioelectricity Galvani’s theory brought a lot of questions to the playing field.The well known physicist‚ obstetrician‚ and physiologist‚ Alessandro Volta ‚ separately did experiments on dead frogs using metals that made their legs twitch. Volta opposed Luigi’s theory stating that electricity was an artificial and external phenomenon‚ dependent on the metals and
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Pregnancy is a time when a woman’s body will go through numerous adaptations in order to accommodate the fetus. During these physiological adaptations‚ the organs such as spleen and liver and systems such as the endocrine and circulatory systems will be affected. A woman can experience minor disorders that are most likely the result of hormonal changes on the smooth muscle and connective tissues. This paper endeavours to describe some of the minor disorders in pregnancy in particular‚ heartburn
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