There are essential details that the patient can tell the nurse about their ulcer and the factors that may contribute to this. Such factors are their full medical history these details should include varicose veins‚ diabetes‚ Deep Vein Thrombosis (DVT)‚ previous leg surgery and any family history of leg ulceration (Dougherty and Lister 2004). The importance of this is that if a leg ulcer is diagnosed incorrectly‚ such as a venous ulcer being mistakenly diagnosed as an arterial one can have
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otherwise known as Hep-Lock‚ Hep-Lock U/P‚ or Monoject Prefill‚ is an anticoagulant and an antithrombotic drug. According to Linda Skidmore-Roth’s book entitled Mosby’s Drug Guide for Nursing Students (2013)‚ heparin is used to prevent deep vein thrombosis (DVT) and pulmonary emboli (PE)‚ myocardial infarction‚ open heart surgery‚ disseminated intravascular clotting syndrome‚ and atrial fibrillation with embolization. It is also used as an anticoagulant in transfusion and dialysis procedures‚ to maintain
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targets these group of people on the Quitline website. http://www.quitnow.gov.au/internet/quitnow/publishing.nsf/Content/mta-2012-13 The health issues that are involved in the campaign are lung cancer‚ blindness‚ cardiovascular dieses‚ cerebral thrombosis‚ high blood pressure‚ muscular degeneration‚ bad breath and stain on teeth and gums. Smokers are also more vulnerable to sickness compared to non-smokers and have more pale and wrinkly skin this is due to the low levels of vitamin
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after surgery and lower odds of failure to rescue. Other studies have shown that hospitals that employ a higher percentage of baccalaureate nurses had a reduction in congestive heart failure mortality‚ decubitus ulcers‚ post operatively deep vein thrombosis or pulmonary embolism and a decreased length of stay (AACN 2013). These studies show that a more educated nursing workforce is needed in order to provide the finest care possible for their patients and their families. This will aid in less medication
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Case Study: Osteoarthritis with a Total Knee Arthroplasty Holly N. Pittman Missouri State University – West Plains Patient History DN is a 68 year old Caucasian male who lives in Pomona‚ Missouri. On September 14‚ 2009‚ DN underwent a scheduled left total knee arthroplasty at Baxter County Regional Medical Center. A consultation appointment about a total knee arthroplasty was scheduled when DN had increasing pain in his knees while doing chores and working on his dairy farm. The increasing pain
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Lesson Organisation This will depend on the number of microscopes you have and access to a healthy culture of Daphnia. Students can readily follow this procedure working in pairs. Because of the variability of results between individual Daphnia it is not appropriate to make conclusions from one set of results‚ so each pair (or group) of students should carry out more than one investigation to contribute to the class set. One option is to record a live video of a sample Daphnia‚ during a time
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Most people think of organs like the heart‚ kidney‚ lung‚ and liver when they think of transplants‚ but skin grafting is just as common in the medical field. Skin grafting is the transplantation of skin to another part of the body. Skin harvesting and transplantation techniques began nearly 3000 years ago with the Hindu Tilemaker Caste‚ where they used skin grafting to rebuild noses that were cut off from judicial punishment (Grande & Mezebish‚ 2008). In the mid 1900s‚ rodents were used to study
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What is surgery? Surgery (from the Greek kheirurgia‚ meaning ’hand work’) is an ancient medical specialty. It is the branch of medicine concerned with treating or investigating diseases‚ injuries or disorders‚ using manual or operative procedures. There are many different specialties within surgery‚ each of which focuses on a different area‚ as follows: Cardiothoracic Surgery- This branch of surgery concentrates on the heart (cardio) and chest area (thoracic). Cardiothoracic surgeons perform
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“Varicose veins are gnarled‚ enlarged veins. Any vein become varicose‚ but the veins most commonly affected are those in your legs and feet. That’s because standing and walking upright increases the pressure in the veins of your lower body” (Mayo Clinic‚ 2011). “Varicose veins are the result of damaged or improperly working valves in the veins‚ which cause blood to back up and make the vein swell” (Cardio Smart‚ 2012). “Varicose veins are enlarged veins that can be blue‚ red‚ or flesh colored.
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Use of Statistical Information Statistics‚ as defined by Bennett‚ Briggs and Triola (2003) "is the science that helps us understand how to collect‚ organize and interpret numbers or other information (data) about some topic‚" (pg. 2). Statistics is an essential component in the ultimate delivery of health care. Health care professionals no longer live in the mindset where procedures are done simply because they have always been done that way; rather the current trend is leaning towards evidence-based
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