Dominic Forlini ALHN 110 Mrs. Anders November 15‚ 2007 Multiple Sclerosis Multiple sclerosis is a disease of the central nervous system that affects the brain‚ spinal cord‚ and the optic nerves. In MS‚ the myelin sheath‚ a fatty tissue that surrounds and protects nerve fibers‚ is damaged. Inflammation also occurs which further destroys the sheath and eventually
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A Flattening World Business marketing is my degree and with that degree I would like to be a sports marketing specialist. Once I graduate college‚ I would like to work for an established marketing firm to build to some experience and then apply myself towards finding for my dream job. Would I would really enjoy as a career would to eventually work for a sports team who is struggling to market themselves on a professional level. My thought process is to take a struggling organization and bring them
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Health Care Innovation Your name HCA/210 June 10‚ 2012 Theresa Brock Health Care Innovation We live in a world where everything is changing and improving rapidly. Health care is one thing that has changed for the better. New improvements to health care are being made every day among technology‚ medicine‚ and even health insurance. The average life expectancy has increased significantly over the last 100 years. One hundred years ago the overall average life expectancy in the United
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The only other thing we can do is a MRI.” About twenty minutes after the MRI the doctor came in and said‚ “We have to do an emergency surgery her appendix erupted‚” The doctor said‚” You guys are lucky you came in today‚ because if you wouldn’t have she wouldn’t have made it till tomorrow she already went
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A Neonatal Intensive Care Unit (NICU) is an intensive care unit specializing in the care of ill or premature newborn infants. Neonates who need to go to the unit are often admitted within the first 24 hours after birth. Newborns may be sent to the NICU if: • they’re born prematurely • difficulties occur during their delivery • they show signs of a problem in the first few days of life (sepsis/infection‚ congenital defects‚ cardiac / respiratory abnormalities‚ low birth weight) NICU EQUIPMENT:
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Sudden cardiac death happens more these days. There are so many people alone in the United States who just stops breathing with no heart disease involved. So why did their heart stop? There are so many researchers out there trying to figure out the underlying cause of these people who this happen to. There can be other reason why a person’s heart can stop without having a cardiac disease. A person’s body may store minerals that control the arrhythmia of the heart to act a different way.
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chronic kidney disease stage 3. Patient was admitted to UCSD emergency department on 08/20 after falling down stairs. Patient presented confused but conscious. Upon presentation in the ED he had left face‚ left arm‚ and left leg weakness. After MRI and cerebral angiogram‚ findings were conclusive to a right-sided embolic CVA. Echocardiogram revealed apical ventricular thrombus. Patient presented to ED on Coumadin therapy with INR at 3.1. Patient was not a candidate for thrombolytic therapy
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Heather Martin Working as a scientist in Chicago Illinois we deal with some pretty controversial research. One of my most passionate experiments also happens to be the most controversial. My team and I had been trying to restore function to dead tissue. It can be life changing if we can successfully accomplish this. We were very successful in returning functions to the severed limbs of small animals when we decided it was time to find a human test subject. An eight year old child‚ named Sarah
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mom said not to be too disappointed and that we would find another doctor that could help me. We decided to go to an orthopedic specialist at Tulsa Bone and Joint. The doctor there told me that I might have endured a stress fracture and ordered an MRI to confirm his suspicions. While waiting for the results of the scan he suggested that I take a break from dance for a while to see if things would improve. So‚ I did. I took off four weeks from dance. During this time I became more and more frustrated
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that imaging techniques can discern smaller anatomical structures or finer details within the brain. This is crucial for pinpointing where specific brain activities or abnormalities occur. Techniques like structural MRI (Magnetic Resonance Imaging) and high-resolution fMRI (functional MRI) have relatively high spatial resolution‚ allowing researchers to visualize brain structures and localize functional activity to specific regions or even substructures within the brain. Temporal Resolution: Temporal
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