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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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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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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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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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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evaluation and treatment of a stage IV adenocarcinoma of the stomach. In 12/2016‚ patient developed abdominal pain associated with eating‚ early satiety‚ and nausea and vomiting. He was brought to an ED for further evaluation and was diagnosed with a peptic ulcer and placed on acid blocking agents. In 01/2017‚ he was seen by gastroenterology and underwent an upper endoscopy which revealed a 6-8 cm mass in the lower body/antral junction causing obstruction. On 01/19/2017‚ he underwent exploratory laparotomy
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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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The Digestive System Why is it that 1 in 3 people perhaps even more regularly battles some kind of digestion problems? Understanding how the digestive system works will help to understand why digestive problems are so common. The digestive system is more than stomach and intestines. It is a system of organs that turns food into energy and is one of the most important functions the body performs. There are many reasons that cause so many people to suffer with digestive problems. Three of
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Herbal and Nutritional Medicine Herbal medicines are certain types of medicines which are purely made by herbs. They don’t have any side effects‚ mainly because most of them are found in nature and are not harmful to the human body. Many well established medicines originally come from plants which is very interesting and completely opposite of different medicines which are made in labs. For example‚ the painkiller morphine comes from poppies‚ aspirin comes from the bark of willow trees and dioxin
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