Please type in the answers to these questions and submit in the drop box. 1. What lung disease is characterized by bullae? Emphysema 2. What lung disease is characterized by casseous lesions? Tuberculosis 3. What is a Mantoux tests used to detect? Tuberculin skin test 4. Which type of bronchitis is caused by infection – acute or chronic? Chronic 5. What is the cause of COPD? COPD is caused by dust particles that infiltrate or embed into the lung tissue. 6. What
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GASTRO ESOPHAGEAL REFLUX DISEASE (GERD) General Description of GERD It is one of the most common diseases‚ greatly affecting health care and contributing to the expenditure in the United States of nearly 12 billion dollars per year for antacid medications. GERD affects nearly equal proportions of men and women‚ but a male predominance occurs in esophagitis and Barrett’s esophagus. Increasing age is an important factor in the prevalence of GERD complications‚ probably the result of cumulative
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XAVIER UNIVERSITY— ATENEO DE CAGAYAN HARMFUL EFFECTS OF SOFT DRINKS ON HUMAN PHYSIOLOGY ------------------------------------------------- ------------------------------------------------- In Partial Fulfillment of the Requirements in English 27: Writing in Discipline and Business Correspondence Paolo Bacarro Araune Karol Mae Santander Hinampas BS MATH-2 XB September 17‚ 2012 INTRODUCTION This study aims to know the effects and the different
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3. Referring the patient to a cardiology for further evaluation. Advanced Practice Nursing Intervention Plan for Gastrointestinal Hemorrhage‚ Unspecified The patient has a heme positive test‚ which means that there is blood contaminate in his stool sample. This result indicates that he may be suffering from gastrointestinal (GI) hemorrhage or gastrointestinal (GI) bleeding. According to NIDDK (2016)‚ gastrointestinal (GI) bleeding is any type of bleeding in digestive tract. There are two type of
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Substance Abuse Paper HCA 250 September 30‚ 2012 Substance Abuse Paper I topic I have chosen to discuss is about the dangers of smoking tobacco at young age into adulthood. Smoking Tobacco is the leading cause of premature death in smokers and it has been linked to death of non-smokers which is known as second-hand smoke. Just like Alcohol and drug abuse‚ smoking tobacco is used for many reasons for example simply being cool‚ to fit in‚ peer pressure‚ and my parents do it. Now let’s discuss
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Smoking is considered one of the most dangerous habits that an individual can have. Smoking kills an average of 450‚000 people each year. That is more than car accidents‚ drunk driving‚ and illegal substances. So why is it that people still continue to smoke? What causes people to want to smoke even knowing the deadly effect? Cigarette smoke does not only effect the smoker’s body and health‚ it effects the non-smoker’s around them even worse. There are many causes which make people smoke and the
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Iron Deficiency Anemia Imagine that you lived your life to the fullest potential‚ while not having a single idea that a heart attack was right around for you. You are exhausted and have unusual cravings for ice even when you’re freezing and cannot get warm. On top of that‚ you cannot explain why you are having a shortness of breath or foggy thinking. If you imagine your life like this‚ then you are living with a condition called iron deficiency anemia. IDA is a common type of anemia‚ a condition
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recent medical technology. It is used to view the gastrointestinal tract and detect abnormalities such as bleeding‚ Crohn’s disease‚ peptic ulcers‚ and colon cancer. In this paper data mining techniques are utilized to extract useful information from a dataset of abnormal regions and non-abnormal regions. More specifically‚ the dataset contains polyps regions‚ ulcers regions and healthy regions. A number of features (shape descriptors‚ texture descriptors and color information) has been extracted
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Nutrition Assessment ● Which of the following diets have the potential to meet all the pt. nutrient needs? → soft + full ● Mid-arm muscle circumference provides information about → somatic protein status ● Purpose of nutritional screening → ID pts. at nutritional risk. ● Nut. screening should be done (H) within ??? after admittance → 24 hours ● Limitations to 24h recall → not representative‚ reliance on memory ● Which of the following can be used for assessing bone mineral density + fat
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Addison’s disease‚ cardiac arrhythmia‚ chronic ulcerative colitis‚ history of drug abuse or dependency‚ gallbladder disease‚ acute abdominal conditions‚ head injury‚ intracranial lesions‚ hypothryroidism‚ respiratory disease‚ urethral stricture‚ peptic ulcer‚ or if you are pregnant or could be than you should talk to your doctor.[1] If you have any questions at any time‚ you can feel free to call the office and we will be happy to find you
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