Case Study for Respiratory Disorders #2 Scenario A.W.‚ a 52-year-old woman disabled from severe emphysema‚ was walking at a mall when she suddenly grabbed her right side and gasped‚ “Oh‚ something just popped.” A.W. whispered to her walking companion‚ “I can’t get any air.” Her companion yelled for someone to call 911 and helped her to the nearest bench. By the time the rescue unit arrived‚ A.W. was stuporous and in severe respiratory distress. She was intubated‚ an IV of lactated Ringer’s (LR)
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English 231c The Effects of Smokeless Tobacco on Oral Health According to the Oral Cancer Foundation‚ about 42‚000 Americans will be diagnosed with oral or pharyngeal cancer this year due to the use of smokeless tobacco. This product will cause over 8‚000 deaths‚ killing roughly one person per hour‚ 24 hours per day. Of those 42‚000 newly diagnosed individuals‚ only slightly more than half will be alive in five years. This is a number‚ which has not significantly improved in decades. The death
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Secondhand Smoke Secondhand smoke is dangerous to anyone who breathes it in. There is no safe amount of it. Secondhand smoking is a problem that needs to be stopped because it affects the lives of many innocent people. What is secondhand smoke? According to the American Cancer Society‚ secondhand smoke is defined as‚ "environmental tobacco smoke (ETS). Secondhand Smoke is a mixture of 2 forms of smoke that come from burning tobacco: Sidestream smoke – smoke from the lighted end of a cigarette
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SECONDHAND SMOKE Secondhand smoke is defines as the smoke inhaled from a lit cigarette‚ cigar‚ or pipe‚ and the smoke exhaled by a smoker. Non-smokers that inhale second hand smoke actually breathes in almost the same amount of chemicals as a smoker. Tobacco smoke contains more than 4‚000 chemical compounds‚ more than 50 of which are known to cause cancer.6 Chemicals that cause cancer include: Arsenic‚ Benzene‚ Beryllium‚ Butadiene‚ Cadmium‚ Chromium‚ Ethylene Oxide‚ Nickel‚ Polohium-210
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Do you smoke? -Yes‚ it doesn’t cost me very much because I smoke a packet in one month. Do you know the dangers of tobacco? -Yes‚ the risks are having lung cancer‚ oral cancer‚ chronic cough‚ etc. Have you ever tried to quit? -No‚ because I know I’m not addict When/why do you smoke? -Social occasions because I love how it tastes with alcohol. Have you ever had health problems as a result of smoking? -No Does your addiction affect other people? -Not really because I don’t have
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Defense mechanisms are methods the ego uses to avoid recognizing ideas or emotions that may cause personal anxiety. Sigmund Freud believed people had inner conflicts within them. They can be healthy or unhealthy depending on the circumstances. A person who uses defense mechanisms in a healthy way has a balance of the id and ego. Using defense mechanisms can be unhealthy to a person because it can cause someone to ignore the underlying issues that cause their feelings. They distract people from their
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Impaired Driving and the Effects On Canadian Society Professor – Rosa Evelia Sanchez Done by – Murun Enkhee & David Dingba Fall 2013 Proposal for SOC105 World Issues ICM 1) Project Topic Impaired driving is the acts of driving under influence of alcohol or drugs. Almost all people not only Canadians but also all the people in the world simply know the definition of impaired driving‚ but how many of them have deep understanding of what exactly it is and how it affects
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The Effects of Second-Hand Smoke Imagine yourself sitting down to dinner at a restaurant. You are sitting down trying to enjoy your dinner when all you can smell is smoke. Not only are you just breathing in the smoke‚ it is also damaging your body at the same time. Or imagine yourself at your work place‚ whether it be a restaurant or office‚ and you are forced to breathe in second-hand smoke the entire time you are there. In this paper you will be informed of the harmful effects of second-hand
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Doctors Choose to Smoke Camel Brand Cigarettes Devry University Doctors Choose to Smoke Camel Brand Cigarettes Camel is a brand of cigarettes developed by R.J. Reynolds‚ an American company‚ in 1913. The company has had many advertising slogans since its development. The first noted was “I’d Walk a Mile for a Camel”. In the 1940’s‚ the pitch was that Camels were “Slow Burning” and this helped reduce nicotine levels. With the U.S. entering WWII‚ the ads started to include soldiers and suggested
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social sciences‚ as a way of assessing the performance of students during final exams. The concept of an "essay" has been extended to other mediums beyond writing. A film essay is a movie that often incorporates documentary film making styles and which focuses more on the evolution of a theme or an idea. A photographic essay is an attempt to cover a topic with a linked series of photographs; it may or may not have an accompanying text or captions Friendship is a feeling of love and affection of
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