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    Taking Care Of Doctor 's Becoming a medical doctor allows an individual to make an impact on the world by healing the sick. In the United States and in other countries becoming a physician is well respected for this reason. As a physician you must dedicate a lot of time and make many sacrifices. Most people ignore the amount of time medical doctors spending work that too often they neglect their needs. Essentially because most medical doctors do not always feel it is necessary.…

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    Becoming A Physician

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    At a young age some people know what career they would. Others don 't figure that out until college when having a better understanding of who he or she is. This vital when considering becoming a physician is an enormous commitment . Becoming a doctor allows an individual to do various things such as making an impact on the world . In the United States and in other countries becoming a physician is well respected for several reasons. One of the many reasons is because in order to become a…

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    Chemoreceptors

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    taste buds that detect various particles in the food we eat. o The nose has olfactory senses that detect odours in the air. o Other chemoreceptors detect changes in the internal environment. For example, chemoreceptors in the carotid arteries and aorta detect blood pH. • Nociceptors: Respond to a variety of stimuli associated with tissue damage. The brain interprets the pain. • Thermoreceptors: Thermoreceptors in the skin detect heat and cold (temperature). • Photoreceptors: Light energy…

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    Everyone knows regular, daily exercise is beneficial to the heart. It helps reduce the risk of heart disease, maintains a healthy body weight, lowers blood pressure, and improves cholesterol. A difference of appearance can be identified between the hearts of people who exercise routinely and those of highly trained athletes. Athletic hearts undergo cardiac remodeling of chambers and physiological changes as a result of extreme conditions placed on the heart over a long period of time. The heart…

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    Chief Complaint Followup of CVA and diabetic third nerve palsy. History Patient is a 57-year-old left-handed white male who presents with his wife for followup of two recent hospitalizations. He was initially hospitalized at July 25, 2015, when he went to bed feeling fine and got up at four in the morning and noted that there was something wrong with his left foot. He thought maybe he slept on it wrong. He went back to bed, but when he woke up again, it was still a problem. He did present…

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    Layne has Marfan Syndrome, a connective tissue disorder. Her condition leaves her heart greatly affected and she has been on medication since she was one year old. She requires echocardiograms at least three times a year to monitor the growth of her aorta and other valves. Layne will eventually have to have heart surgery to preventively replace her aortic valve. Layne also suffers from severe scoliosis and is considered to be legally blind because of her low vision. Due to her severe scoliosis,…

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    Proteus Syndrome Analysis

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    abnormalities in the extremities, skull, and facial bones are reported in all the three mutations. All cause abnormal flexion and limited range of motion of joints. In cardiovascular system, all the three mutations have reported abnormality of the aorta and cardiac conductive system. Contractile dysfunction of heart and hyperplasia of arterial wall have been seen in common too. In case of eye, Marfan syndrome, Proteus syndrome, and progeria share many clinical features. All cause cataract,…

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    Auscultation Lab Report

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    etc., and it requires the cuff to be more deflated, giving a lower systolic pressure reading, making it only a good estimate. 2. The common physiological determinants for pulse pressure, (SBP) and (DBP), are (SV), (CO) and compliance of arterial (aorta). The pressure difference between systolic and diastolic pressures, are also contributing determinants for pulse pressure.…

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    Heart Failure Even though heart failure is a chronic condition, acute or decompensated heart failures require ICU admission. Otherwise, patients already admitted to the ICU for other diagnoses may be affected by heart failure as a complication. Postmyocardial injury/postinfarction patients and postoperative patients are included in this category. To detect early heart failure or heart failure in compensated stages, ventricular filling pressures are evaluated against stroke volume. The ICU nurse…

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    Heart Murmur Case Study

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    The nurse will want to listen to see how loud the heart murmur is. Once she listens she will need to rate the murmur on a scale of 1 to 6, with 6 being the loudest. When listening to the murmur the nurse needs to note on what position on the heart the murmur is located. For example, is it on the back of the heart? She should listen to the pitch of the murmur. It is high, medium or low-pitched. What things affects the sounds. Does moving the infant or laying the infant in a certain position.…

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