Ablative brain surgery

Somethings are a blessing in disguise, and it took me awhile to realize that my six year old brother needing emergency surgery on his appendix brought my family closer together. I remember coming home from school on a wednesday night mad at my mom for not letting me go and get chinese with my friends after school. She told me that I needed to come home right after school. I had seriously considered going anyways. My mom has a part time job so I knew she would be home around four, leaving me…

It was at a small clinic that didn’t see many animals, but this is where I saw my first surgery, a routine neuter. What I remember most is the excitement I felt and when the doctor had finished he told me the surgery was so simple a monkey could do it. All I wanted was to be that monkey. Not long after, I began volunteering at a small zoo. This allowed me to get close to exotics and to care for them…

After the surgery, a referral has been made to the stoma care nurse specialist. A referral system for members of the multidisciplinary team in the neonatal unit facilitates early contact with the clinical nurse specialist (Porter, 2014). It allows them to provide the family with education, support and an ongoing plan of care. Various changes and developments involving stoma care in nursing have occurred in the United Kingdom through the years. Black (2016) highlighted that stoma care on its own…

Running Head: MH Silent, but Deadly 1 MH Silent, but Deadly Christina E. Santiago San Joaquin Valley College ST:11 Introduction to Surgical Technology Running Head: MH Silent, but Deadly 2 Abstract Malignant hyperthermia is a very rapid onset crisis that happens during a surgical procedure. It is unnoticeable and is an adverse reaction to anesthesia that was given in either form of volatile agents or succinylcholine. It is undetected in most cases unless having been tested for this particular…

bedside nursing but joined doctors to provide more complex direct patient care by gaining knowledge and trust of the people. Nurses are successfully working in all the departments of medicine, including family medicine, internal medicine, acute care, surgery, women 's health and anesthesia. This article describes in detail about the history of nurse anesthesia how it grew to…

1941 Rees and Abajian utilized the epidural space for thoracic anesthesia. The progression of epidural anesthesia finally peaked with continuous infusion of an anesthetic in thoracic surgeries in 1953 (Blas, 1996). Hemodynamic complications associated with epidural anesthesia include the possible development of severe bradycardia or asystole. According to Hines and Marschall, this is most likely to occur an hour after the epidural is used for injection (2012). Approximately half of the…

Surgery is a field that requires a lot of accuracy and precision bearing in mind that one is dealing with life of a being. Any mistake arising can lead to fatality and therefore a lot of training is needed before a person can be declared qualified. Pediatric surgery is even more complicated and this calls for a lot of training and practice. The process starts with the aspiring person taking a four years paramedical training before enrolling for a five years course in general surgery followed…

district court system regarding the verdict of malpractice action was appealed to the supreme court of Iowa. The plaintiff, Ilene Perin underwent surgery to address an issue, but the attending physician performed a slightly different procedure then what was initially intended. Despite relieving the patient of her prior ailment, the outcome of the surgery resulted in the creation of another ailment. In attempt to describe what substantial difference encompasses in healthcare, several cases and…

an unimaginable twelve years before you’re certified to be an anesthetic physician. Many don’t know what implies to be an anesthesiologist when knowing how much to give a patient the right amount of dosage, watching the vitals of a patient during surgery or making the sacrifices that are needed for you to be always alert in any case of emergency. While doing research I did come across some question’s I didn’t find while doing my research, as to “What is life like living day by day just waiting…

normal blood sugar levels of the diabetic patients who undergoes surgery, it is possible to prevent the SSI (Al-Zaru, Ammouri, Al-Hassan, & Amr, 2009). Reason for Attention The rate of surgical site infection (SSI) serves as a performance measure of a hospital. It reflects the quality and the standard of health care delivered to the patients. Hence, to compare the…