Cholera is an acute diarrheal disease, which has a high potential to spread fast and cause deaths. Hookworm infection that may occur in a single or mixed infection in the same person through various factors, which have to be prevented, this is widely prevalent in India. Influenza is an acute respiratory tract infection, in India alone, over six million people die due to this pandemic. Filariasis is a major public health problem in India. There are an estimated six million attacks of acute…
Intraoperative blood mistransfusion is not a term many anesthesia professionals think of when administering blood products in the operating room, but it becomes an acute reality to you, your anesthesia department, and the operating room staff when it happens to your patient. Over the years, hospitals and governing agencies have set forth checks, guidelines, and protocols that have made mistransfusion sound like something from historical literature due to such improvement in patient safety, but…
Bakhshian, F., & Narimani, M. (2013). Response inhibition and cognitive appraisal in clients with Acute Stress Disorder and Post-Traumatic Stress Disorder. Iranian Journal of Psychiatry, 8(3), 124-130. doi:10.1002/9781118330043.ch7 This study compares different cognitive and behavioral responses and symptoms comparing people from 3 different groups, healthy people, people who were diagnosed with acute stress disorder, and people diagnosed with post-traumatic stress disorder. The results of…
“At the organizational level, hospitals and clinics need clinical, financial, and administrative data/information to measure, assess, control, and improve the quality and productivity of their operations” (Reid, P., Compton, D. W., Grossman, J. H., Fanjiang, G. 2005). Financial information is especially important for managing healthcare organizations. The primary use of financial information is evaluation of organization’s financial condition. The financial data can answer a question regarding…
significant evidence about the association between the absolute value of elevated cardiac troponin levels with the prognosis of patients with chest pain (3). However, it is well-known that elevated cardiac troponin levels may occur in situations other than acute coronary syndromes, as it happens with supraventricular tachyarrhythmias (4). There is no clear information about the magnitude of cardiac troponin elevation associated with these arrhythmias since the development of new high…
facilities Since the task of empowering patients is not easily achieved, we focused on a group of patients: patients who require care out of the hospital; for our purpose we focused on patients with chronic heart failure in particular on 2 groups, Post-Acute and patients affected by CHF under therapy at home not previously hospitalized. These patients require support from a group of people, medical and non-medical professionals. Nurses need to make frequent house calls to take measurements and…
The acute effects of Alcohol on sports performance and human exercise will be covered here. As pervious research has proven alcohol has effects on your central nervous system, muscle energy stores and the cardiovascular system. It is believed that alcohol impairs muscular work capacity and decreases overall physical performance. This also includes an effect on your motor skills, such as impaired vision, balance, reaction time and coordination. However alcohol has some advantages that could be…
In todays medical field, pulmonary rehabilitation is a critical coponet to help assist people with chronic lung diease. A pulmonary rehab is a program designed to help people with chronic lung diseases to cope with everyday living. The program tailors exercise nutritional needs along with education to help the patient improve his or her quality of life and abililty to function. In addition to making sure, the patient receives the right medication and right dose. Rehabilitation help enhances…
result, during the clinical evaluation phase it is important to consider a broad differential diagnosis because many disorders can present with similar clinical features. Pseudo gout, septic arthritis, rheumatoid arthritis, osteoarthritis, cellulitis, acute fracture should be considered as differential diagnosis for patients with above mentioned symptoms (Dunphy et al., 2015, p. 914). Pseudo gout is a type of arthritis that causes sudden painful swelling in the joints. Unlike primary or…
colonoscopy, difficult urinary catheterization, pacemaker implantation, and electrical cardioversion. Physical stressors are observed more in males, while emotional stressors are observed more in women. 90% of people diagnosed with TC are women. TC mimics acute coronary syndrome. Chest pain and difficulty breathing are the most frequent syndrome. Patients rarely present with nausea or vomiting, syncope, or ventricular fibrillation. The most frequent finding on ECGs is ST segment elevation,…