Cultural Diversity in Health Care Heritage Assessment Tool This tool is a helpful way to evaluate a person as a whole because it reflects on the individual’s cultural background and ethnicity. The questions were focused on how the individual grew up as a child; progressing to adulthood and the age he/she came to the United States. This is a very important question to incorporate in the study matter because it shows how long the individual practiced the kind of culture that he/ she was in. Closeness
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Tetrodotoxin and Fugu Tetrodotoxin (TTX) is a neurotoxin that is found in a variety of marine animals. In 1909 Dr. Yoshizumi Tahara discover tetrodotoxin in the ovaries of globefish‚ but Fugu was known to be toxic to humans for a long time (Bane‚ Lehane‚ Dikshit‚ O’Riordan‚ & Furey‚ 2014). The toxin is naturally found in nature and it known for its toxicity and fatalities for humans once it enters the body. Tetrodotoxin is water soluble meaning it can dissolve when it is mixed in with water and
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Robbins & Cotran Basis of Disease – 9th Edition Pg. 370-377 Mycobacteria Bacteria in the genus Mycobacterium are slender‚ aerobic rods that grow in straight or branching chains. Mycobacteria have a unique waxy cell wall composed of unusual glycolipids and lipids including mycolic acid‚ which makes them acid-fast‚ meaning they will retain stains even on treatment with a mixture of acid and alcohol. They are weakly gram positive. Tuberculosis Tuberculosis is a serious chronic pulmonary and systemic
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little or no damage in dog‚ but the eggs passes out with the faeces and when eaten by intermediate host‚ mainly sheep‚ cattle‚ horses‚ pigs or humans. A larva hatches from the egg‚ penetrates the gut‚ and migrates to various tissues‚ especially liver‚ spleen‚ muscle‚ and brain. The larva of Echinococcus develops into a spherical fluid-filled cyst called a hydatid cyst. This cyst can reach 150mm in diameter‚ contains numerous secondary cysts (germinal epithelium) or broad capsules in which thousands of
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The two neurological disorders that I will be discussing are Sudden infant death syndrome and sickle cells anemia. Sudden death syndrome is a disorder in which healthy infants die in their sleep. This disease has strike over 2‚500 infants while napping or sleeping through the night. This pattern only occur through normal breathing during sleep. Although‚ it has been determine that they neither choke or smoother while sleeping. They just die a peaceful death. It has been suggested that parents place
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unique to New York and Northern Pennsylvania. Similar stories can be found in Wyoming‚ Texas‚ Colorado and other states where fracking has been used. The chemicals used in hydro-fracturing have been linked to cancer‚ kidney failure‚ toxicity of the spleen and fertility problems.The long-term negative environmental and human health effects of fracking far outweigh the short-term profits. The only winners here are multi-national gas corporations. The Green Party of New York and all of its candidates
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and become very tender with pain. These swollen glands are called "buboes". If the Bubonic Plague is left untreated‚ the bacteria will enter the blood stream and travel to other places inside the body like organs such as lungs‚ liver‚ and the spleen. If it does enter the lungs‚ it can cause a pneumonic form of the Bubonic Plague. The symptoms for this are high fever‚ chils‚ cough‚ and breathing difficulty. They may even spit up blood‚ depending upon how severe the infection is. Like I said
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traveling in the blood and lymphatic tissues. Metastasizes in lymphoma is a bit different from other cancers because tumors are not a common result of this type of cancer‚ however occasionally a tumor does result and it is normally found in the lungs‚ spleen or central nervous system..
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to review the history in my records. The patient is accompanied by his parents. According to the patient’s mother the child was born with "blueberry muffin syndrome." He spent approximately a month in the neonatal ICU with an enlarged liver and spleen‚ and _____(s/l resuscitated) multiple platelet transfusions. Mother states that a small incidental cyst was found in the posterior fossa. The patient has not had any seizures. There has been no unexplained changes in his level of consciousness.
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characterized by karyorrhexis and karyolysis‚ were seen and there were moderate numbers of lymphocytes and plasma cells infiltrated at the lamina propria and some areas of the intestinal submucosal layer. The serosal neurons were dark and swollen. The spleen showed a focal fibrosiderotic plaque and occasionally fibrin thrombi in the blood vessels. The kidney revealed mild multifocal necrosis of the tubular epithelial cells with diffuse congestion and multifocal cysts at the cortex. The liver sinusoids
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