Introduction: Chronic obstruction pulmonary disease (COPD) is characterized by chronic inflammation and irreversible airflow obstruction which causes some structural changes in the lung1. It is the fourth major and leading cause of morbidity and mortality worldwide and it will become third in all major causes of death by 20202. Since two decades‚ smoking is the major cause of COPD worldwide. This disease is rare in non-smoking person except those who will have exposure of occupational dust‚ environmental
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factors: Pain is a complex human trait sculpted by multiple biologic and psychologic systems‚ each of which involves the influence of numerous proteins throughout the peripheral and central nervous systems‚ whose effects can be substantially affected by environmental exposures. Therefore‚ it is inevitable that multiple genes‚ each with a small individual effect‚ interact among themselves and with a variety of environmental factors‚ to influence pain sensitivity and the expression of chronic pain conditions
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Chronic myelogenous leukemia begins to form in blood-forming cells in the bone marrow. A mutation takes place in the early stages of the myeloid cells‚ who are responsible in making the red blood cells‚ platelets‚ and even some white blood cells. The infected
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patients arrive to the hospital due to an acute injury or a sudden pain that was unbearable to the point of seeking evaluation from a healthcare professional. Upon arrival to the hospital‚ management of pain during a hospital stay is an important part of what nurses do daily to meet the needs of patients. Glowacki’s article‚ Effective pain management and improvements in Patients’ outcomes and satisfaction (2015) reviews current pain management treatments; their effectiveness during the hospital stay;
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Cirrhosis is a chronic degenerative disease in which normal liver cells are damaged and are then replaced by scar tissue. Cirrhosis changes the structure of the liver and the blood vessels that nourish it. The disease reduces the liver’s ability to manufacture proteins and process hormones‚ nutrients‚ medications‚ and poisons. Cirrhosis gets worse over time and can become potentially life threatening. This disease can cause: excessive bleeding (hemorrhage)‚ impotence‚ liver cancer‚ coma due to
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each needs to follow in order to do their job correctly. Chronic Obstructive Pulmonary Disease (COPD) management is one protocol that is very common within today’s world due to many people smoking. COPD is a lung disease “characterized by persistent airflow limitation that is usually progressive and associated with an enhanced chronic inflammatory response in the airways and the lung to noxious particles or gases”(Global Initiative For Chronic Obstructive Lung Disease‚ 2015). This type of disease causes
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Chronic Traumatic Encephalopathy‚ also known as CTE is a progressive degenerative brain disease. It is a lot like alzheimer’s and dementia in the sense that both Chronic Traumatic Encephalopathy and alzheimer’s/dementia have similar symptoms. Some symptoms of CTE Include memory loss‚ confusion‚ impaired judgment‚ impulse control problems‚ aggression‚ depression‚ anxiety‚ suicidality‚ parkinsonism‚ and eventually‚ progressive dementia. As you can see in the thermal scan above the brain is progressively
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postpartum pain. In the first study by Leeman et al. (2009)‚ the purpose was to evaluate the pain associated with genital trauma‚ labor care‚ and different incidences during birth from a group of healthy women who had few instances of episiotomies and delivered vaginally. The sample size consisted of 565 midwifery patients that were at least eighteen years of age. These women signed consent forms allowing their birth experiences to be documented as well as consented to have a postpartum pain assessment
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titled‚ “Integrative review: postcraniotomy pain in the brain tumour patient” by Rebecca Guilkey‚ Dian Von Ah‚ Janet Carpenter‚ Cynthia Stone‚ and Claire Draucker in 2016. This article focused on how craniotomies are known to be painful‚ but little attention is paid to postcraniotomy pain. This study was narrowed down to focusing on postcraniotomy pain in adults 21 or older who are patients in intensive care units (ICU). The study stated that postop pain in craniotomy patients is often associated
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Dylon Koran Biology 1103 Melanie Waite-Altringer 28 October 2010 Chronic Wasting in Deer How would you like to see a fourteen point buck in your crossaires with a body of a sick dog? Chronic Wasting Disease (CWD) is destroying deer in the United States. Mule Deer‚ Whitetail Deer‚ Shiras Moose‚ and Rocky Mountain Elk are the only four susceptible to CWD. Once pronounced with Chronic Waste Disease there is no going back. Chronic Wasting Disease in Mule deer ( Odocolleus Hemronus)‚ For more than
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