Amputation

lead to the need for amputation of the foot, or even up as far as right below the knee. “Risk of amputation with up to 80% of amputations attributed to foot ulceration”(Coleman). Without proper care ulcers can lead to a lot more problems than just an amputation. If an ulcer gets infected and the person does not go a podiatrist, and it does not heal, the infection can spread into the bloodstream and lead to death. “The prognosis for individuals with ulceration and amputation is poor with a five…

“What is worse, to live without a leg or to live with an obsession that controls your life?” Elliots book chapter “Amputees By Choice” describes what it's like to live the life of an apotemnophilia (someone with the attraction to the idea of being an amputee) or an acrotomophilia(a sexual attraction to amputees). Elliot discusses how the concept is “an ambivalent moral ideal-a struggle between the impulse toward self-improvement and the impulse to be true to oneself”(pg3). Apotemnophiliac’s are…

Around half of the lower limb amputations that are performed in the US every year are related to diabetes. That works out to be roughly 44,000 diabetes related amputations every year in America. Around 85% of those cases started out with a foot ulcer. Those at greatest risk are people who have a long history of diabetes, are overweight, and/or smoke…

More Americans have died during the Civil War than any other war. 620,000 soldiers died in the line of duty. Two-thirds of these didn’t die from wounds. They died from diseases such as typhoid and dysentery. Civil War medicine was not yet advanced enough to connect a lack of hygiene with an influx of disease. Lack of hygiene in hospitals and camps also contributed to the spread of disease. Placing a latrine downstream away from the clean water supply was sometimes also overlooked. Disease spread…

force in walking. This can rationalise energy expenditure on walking increases with higher level amputations (Perry, 2004). In addition, longer femur length means body pressure is distributed to wider surface, allows amputees to tolerate the tension at stump better during prosthesis side stance phase. If high pressure…

For instance, when the subject watched the video of the arm amputation, her heart rate, breathing and perspiration increased; because more neurons were firing and brain activity was increasing signals, sending messages to certain parts of the body, telling it how to respond. The brain waves mirrored these effects on…

Amputations and maimings, both spiritual and physical, are common themes throughout the poetry in Drum Taps and it is clearly the most troubling example of the brutality of war to Whitman. Amputations were a concerning reality in the Civil War - Whitman continually refers to the heap of severed limbs he was greeted with upon first arriving in his brother 's camp, and it was common for soldiers to prepare themselves for potential amputation in the weeks leading up to great…

Introduction 1.1. Serratia Marcescens Serratia marcescens is a motile, rod-shaped, gram-negative anaerobic bacillus, that is a member of the genus Serratia, which belongs to the Enterobacteriaceae family. It has become an important opportunistic pathogen associated with a number of life-threatening diseases and nosocomial infections (Hejazi and Falkiner, 1997). S. marcescens is known to have high survival capability under hostile conditions; it is commonly found in a number of disinfectants…

During the NIHSS assessment, she was looking around in the room and resting quietly in her bed. When asking patient the month and their age, she was not able to answer the questions due to aphasia and her cognitive disability, but she was able to open and close her eyes with simple commands. Tammy was able to follow the moving fingers and penlight with her eyes, but she was not able to tell you if she sees fingers in all visual field due to aphasia. Tammy also had a right facial minor paralysis…

Z decided that it would be appropriate to continue with amputation of Mr. K’s right little toe, as doing the operation would save the patient money and time, travelling to the hospital. Dr. Z also informed the scrub nurses to prepare for the amputation. Mr. K agreed with Dr. Z to proceed with the surgery as he did not want to waste time travelling to the hospital again. Although Mr. K was sedated, he…