Pharmacology Case Study #1 Name Mississippi University for Women Nu 501 – Advanced Pharmacology 1/22/2010 CC: Pain in left side of face‚ jaw‚ and head x 1 wk HPI: 60 y/o BM with hx of HTN presents with pain on left side of face‚ jaw‚ and head x 1wk. Pt denies any trauma. Reports left facial pain x 1 wk‚ throbbing‚ starts in jaw area and extends to head‚ “8” on pain scale 0 -10‚ pain worsens when eating and drinking‚ especially cold drinks. PMH: Diagnosed with HTN at age
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rChest X-Ray – PIER + ABCDEFGH Identify your pt: DOB‚ CC‚ HPI PIER Use the "PIER" mnemonic to assess for adequacy of the film. * Position: Typically‚ upright PA and lateral. Sick patients will have the fuzzier supine AP (because the film is slid under their chest as they are lying down). Size of the heart is exaggerated in AP view compared to PA. Edge of the medial border of scapula is at the midline of lung field in AP. * Inspiration: Count the visible ribs. Lung fields should extend
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respiratory manifestations such as rales‚ rhonchi‚ bronchial breath sounds‚ or decreased breath sounds. Skin findings could consist of diffuse‚ maculopapular rashes or urticaria that may progress to erythema nodosum or erythema multiforme after 3-21 days. Abscess formation can also be found on PE and unifocal bone or joint lesions if MS involvement. It can involve several organs such as the spleen‚ liver‚ lymph nodes‚ and the CNS can be involved resulting in meningitis.
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Chapter One INTRODUCTION Herbal medicines tend to look primitive and unscientific when compared to synthetic (conventional) drugs‚ which are thought to be more reliable than those made from plants. Herbal medicine is still the mainstay of about 75-80% of the world population‚ mainly in the developing countries for primary health care (Kamboj‚ 2000). This is primarily because of the general belief that herbal drugs are without any side effects‚ besides being cheap and locally available. The
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Hallucinogen’s should be considered for public use a medical format to treat mental disorders such as bipolar disorder schizophrenia abscess of compulsive disorder and dementia and there are studies to prove these drugs beneficial use no treatment has been established why hallucinogen’s can lend a hand and providing aid for perpetual disorders it comes with a price some side effects can be long term but this may stop someone from using there is also the fear of the unknown of how the drug will affect
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effects hospitalized patients at a growing rate and attention must be paid as to treat or not to treat. However I can help but baskin in the joy of teaching the medical students about risk of mortality of the patient we just admitted with a spinal abscess compressing the spinal cord at the L4 and L5 region. Neurology was always my first choice. I am excited to be amongst the Neurology community. I could not have found a better fit for my life career choice. When posed with the question of why this
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This paper is meant to help others to understand the development and management of dental caries in order to sustain oral health. It is important to understand the impact that oral health can have on ones over all health. This indeed is why oral health should be at a valuable state. Completely understanding the process in which bacteria begins to grow inside the mouth and the stages associated with the caries process is critical. The first stage of caries is demineralization by means of calcium and
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Diverticulitis Diverticulitis is a digestive disease which involves the formation of pouches within the bowel wall. These pouches result from a related digestive disease known as Diverticula which occurs in the colon of the large intestine. The topic disease Diverticulitis is present when one of these pouches becomes inflamed within the large intestine. Although diverticular illness is mainly a condition that has become widespread within the twentieth and twenty first centuries‚ Alexis Lexicologist
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Introduction Crohn’s disease (CD) is an idiopathic chronic inflammatory disease of the gastrointestinal tract with an unpredictable course. The peak age of the onset of CD is in second to fourth decades of life‚ and its course follows a pattern of periodic recurrences and exacerbations1. CD predominantly affects the small bowel (in up to 80% of cases) and colon‚ but any part of the gastrointestinal tract may be involved‚ and more than one site may be affected. This disease is characterized by erosions
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surface) perineal pouch in females‚ bulbourethral glands are located in the subaqueous (deep) perineal pouch in males. “A bartholin cyst is a fluid-filled sac caused by blockage of a duct from the Bartholin gland. If bacterial infection occurs‚ an abscess may form” (Belle 2). Bartholinitis is inflammation of one
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