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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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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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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“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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Sedentary lifestyle This article is about the medical term. For the anthropologic concept‚ see sedentism. "Couch potato" redirects here. For other uses‚ see Couch potato (disambiguation). Increases in sedentary behaviors such as watching television are characteristic of a sedentary lifestyle A sedentary lifestyle is a type of lifestyle with no or irregular physical activity. A person who lives a sedentary lifestyle may colloquially be known as a couch potato. It is commonly found in both the
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Have you ever heard the saying “Long life or cigarettes? You choose.” Studies from http://www.cdc.gov/tobacco/data_statistics/fact_sheets/health_effects/effects_cig_smoking/ show that the adverse health effects from cigarette smoking account for more than 440‚000 deaths‚ or nearly one of every five deaths‚ each year in the United States. There are more fatalities caused each year by tobacco use than by human immunodeficiency virus (HIV)‚ illegal drug use‚ alcohol use‚ automobile accidents‚ suicides
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MECHANISM OF LABOR and DELIVERY Labor and birth is physically and emotionally straining for a woman. As the patient’s body undergoes physical changes to help the fetus pass through the cervix‚ she may also feel discomfort‚ pain‚ panic irritability‚ and loss of control. Providing measures to promote relaxation is key during labor and breath. * FETAL PRESENTATION - is the relationship of the fetus to the rvix. It can be assessed through vaginal examination (IE)‚ abdominal inspection and palpation
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CELLULAR AND IMMUNE CONCEPTS MARISA FRITKIN MED 3015A VICKI SWEET‚ INSTRUCTOR OCTOBER 22‚ 2012 I decided to write my paper about the coagulation system‚ including clot formation‚ but mainly about Disseminated Intravascular Coagulation. Disseminated Intravascular Coagulation‚ also known as DIC‚ is a pathological activation of blood clotting mechanisms that may happen in response to a variety of diseases‚ or illnesses. However‚ DIC‚ is most commonly observed in severe sepsis and septic
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