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Migraine Headaches Migraine headaches are a severe headache typically categorized by throbbing pain, nausea, and sensitivity to light and sound. They can be acute or chronic. They occur when a "trigger" stimulates the release of vasoactive neuropeptides, which causes blood vessels in the brain to contract and then dilate. This also produces vasospasms, which reduces blood flow. Platelets then clump together and release serotonin, which causes blood vessels to constrict even more. This triggers…

CASE MYSTERY: THE PROFESSOR Nursing is a profession that offers a broad spectrum of choices for practice. Each nurse gathers tools for use in a chosen specialty as experience and knowledge is gained through practice. One of the most interesting tools gathered by professional nurses is the ability to be a detective of sorts. Working with a team of medical professionals, nurses contribute to the plan of care and treatment by providing outstanding assessment skills, evaluating interventions for…

A condition in which the force of the blood against the artery walls are high enough that it can cause health problems. Hypertension hikes the chances of getting a disease of the heart and having a stroke. Hypertension, also known as High Blood Pressure, has had many theories on how it was discovered. It has been around since the early Egyptian empires, but the importance did not come around until around the 1950s. By the 16th Century Leonardo Da Vinci showed many diagrams of the anatomical…

rug interactions are the harmful or beneficial effects of co administered medicinal products, these interaction may be synergistic or antogon istic pharmco kinetics or pharmaco dynamics, drug interactions exists between drugs anddrugs, drug and foods, drugs and herbs, benefits effects include convenience . Reduced toxicity and reduction. ANTIHISTIMINE, ANTIHISTIMINE, ASTHMA, ANALAGESIC, TYPHOID, HYPERTENSION, TUBERCULOSIS ANTIBIOTICS, FILARIA, RHEUMATOID ARTHRITIS, ANTIPYRITIC, ANTICANCER…

Introduction: Left ventricular non-compaction (LVNC) is a heterogeneous myocardial disease first described nine decades ago in 1926, by Grant et al (Medicine et al. 2014). At that time and still today, LVNC has been characterized by three primary criteria: prominent ventricular trabeculations, deep intertrabecular recesses, and the development of two distinct layers of myocardium, compacted and noncompacted (Chin et al. 1990). Similar to Grant et al’s original case, the majority of early…

GERD: Gastroesophageal Reflux Disease is most commonly known as “heartburn”. It refers to the back flow of gastric or duodenal contents or both into the esophagus and past the lower esophageal sphincter, without associated belching or vomiting. The reflux of gastric contents causes acute epigastric pain, usually after a meal. Common causes are: food, alcohol, or cigarettes, hiatal hernia, increased abdominal pressure (such as with obesity or pregnancy), medications, nasogastric intubation for…

hypertension athletes need to monitored to see the effect, antihypertensive drugs can have a harmful effect on exercise tolerance. Examples of pharmacologic treatment for hypertension include beta-blockers, alpha-blockers, calcium channel blockers, diuretics, ace inhibitors, and angiotensin II receptor blockers. Each of these aids in reducing hypertension by either slowing heart rate, induces dilation of arterial blood vessels, or blocks the action of angiotensin II hormone. Even though…

vasodilatory effects causing reduction in blood pressure. Risk factors include diabetes, more than 70 years of age and co-administration with other agents that affect the renin angiotensin aldosterone system (RAAS) such as ACE inhibitors and beta blockers (O’Donovan, 2014). Beta blocking agents is another example of anti-hypertensive drugs. The immediate effect is to reduce systolic blood pressure by 20 (mmHg) millimetre of mercury. Therefore, it is essential to take vital signs, including…

Do you or someone you know have heart arrhythmia or also commonly known as an irregular heartbeat. Heart arrhythmia can be a very serious disease based on the way you live your life day to day and what goes into body everyday. If a person has a heart arrhythmia, he should study the causes, preventions and cures in order to lead the healthiest lifestyle possible. Have you ever heard of heart arrhythmia? Heart arrhythmia is also commonly known as an irregular heartbeat ( Sandhyha Pruthi M.D. www…

Clinical Information Systems When coming from a nursing background, which spanned over 35 years, I find it difficult to discuss at “least one influence of Clinical Information System on healthcare delivery.” I find it tempting to pontificate upon the many years of transcribing physician’s orders. Prior to computerized physician-order entry (CPOE), transcribing physician orders was an often futile, time consuming event, which required interpreting illegible handwriting, checks, double and…