Amputation

gastrocnemius. The structure data are numbness, chilling of the limb, pain, even when at rest. This signifies ischemia (shortage of oxygen, nutrients) needed for tissues to be alive. Per Alfred (2012) these may affect future care by necessitating amputation or debridement of devitalized tissue to prevent the spread of the infection to the rest of the body. During Ms. G’s stay in the hospital, she will be educated on the needs for care of the lower extremities, the type of shoes, socks to use,…

The controversial topic of female circumcision or rather female genital mutilation appears to be accepted by some cultures yet through analysis and the point of view of absolutism reveals that this practice is unethical. Female circumcision is defined as the action or traditional practice of cutting off the clitoris and sometimes the labia of girls or young women. Female genital mutilation refers to alteration of the external genitalia of girls without medical benefit which causes immediate and…

rhetorical situation. For the first characteristic of rhetorical situation of Baldwin’s essay, rhetorical discourse is crafted by the situation of the race riots and related social tension in Harlem. Baldwin says in his essay, “Amputation is swift but time may prove that the amputation was not necessary -or one…

trenches being in a curved shape like, huge rats crawling over and eating the unburied dead, the deep mud, the terror of poison gas attacks, machine-guns and artillery shells killing hundred of troops, grenades blowing limbs off, the loss of friends, amputations, death and destruction the war caused. In general, the troops uniforms and trenches were…

Wartime Nurses Imagine you were a women who got chosen to be a nurse in the army with only four weeks of training, what would you do? Thinking of the world is a very sad thing to think of with many of people dying and many people injured. In WW2 there were thousands of women nurses who had served. To start with there were over 59,000 nurses who served, that is a huge amount of nurses (“CEUfast-Nursing and Medicine During World War 2”). William Barton was the first to recommend that females be…

insulin is being produced or that the body is unable to process it. In essence, sugar builds up in the blood, which can lead to a number of serious complications, including heart disease, blindness, kidney failure and the need for lower-extremity amputation. As a team of physicians that specializes in cardiac testing, internal medicine and diabetic education, the folks at Dothan, GA based Southern Clinic, P.C. note that knowledge about diabetes is essential in the fight against it. So what do…

It is guessed that the very first surgery, or one of the first, was an amputation scenario in which the surgeon discovered that his infected finger should be amputated. In a sense, surgery was the first true division of medicine due to its effectiveness. The earliest and most ubiquitous surgeries were on the brain, which may…

Snakebite envenomation is a neglected threat devastating many years in tropical and subtropical countries like India. India has a worst-case scenario with a high incidence of snakebite. About 216 species of snakes in India but only 52 are venomous from this Indian cobra (Naja naja), Russell 's viper (Daboia russelii), Saw-scaled viper (Echis carinatus), and common krait (Bungarus caeruleus) are most deadly. The majority of snakebites encountered by these snakes therefore called India’s Big 4.…

Ron Santo’s Fight Against Diabetes “I expect you to judge me by what I do on the field. I just don’t want to hide it anymore,” expressed Ron Santo (Santo, R.). This is how many diabetics feel. They do not want their disease to affect the way people view them, so they try to hide it. They just want to be judged by their performance. Ron Santo proved diabetics can do anything they want, despite their disease, and he ended up being one of the best third baseman baseball has ever seen. In order to…

as drinking wine or drunken behavior and sodomy. Corporal punishment includes flogging, stoning and amputation (Dammer & Albanese, 2004). Flogging sentences range from a dozen to thousands of lashes which can be served periodically at intervals ranging from two weeks to one month. Judges have discretion on this issue as it is given in Sharia and can act within the bounds of these laws. Amputations are performed by a state sanctioned individual. All corporal punishments are public. The United…