Chest pain

your great grandmother, grandma, or mom, was going to be passing away within a few hours. You sit there with her and see how much pain she looks like she is in. Three hours pass, and nothing has changed except that her breathing starts to stop every now and then. The staff gives her morphine periodically to help ease the pain, but you can tell that she is still in pain. The thought crosses your mind that if they know that she is going to die that day, why can’t they just end her suffering early?…

Summary of: Superman to the rescue: Simulating physical invulnerability attenuates exclusion-related interpersonal biases In the article, Superman to the rescue: Simulating physical invulnerability attenuates exclusion-related interpersonal biases, the authors, Julie Y. Huang, Joshua M. Ackerman, and John A. Bargh (2013) address the theory that simulating physical invulnerability can affect exclusion-related positive and negative feelings toward in and out-groups. The researchers want to test…

Jansen. "The use of fentanyl as a pain reliever and anesthetic was quickly adopted in the medical setting. In the 1960s, the agent was introduced as an intravenous anesthetic under the brand name Sublimaze"(S.Robertson)pg.1. In the 90s fentanyl was turned into a patch which breaks down into the blood stream through a period of 72 hours. Fentanyl affects the body by increasing the dopamine levels causing pain relief. The medical use of fentanyl is pain relief and pain management. Fentanyl can be…

of my legs because at least I know that it will feel better in about 6 weeks but this doesn’t seem like this will ever stop hurting. Sometimes the thing that I found that helped the most was to seek out friends and family that could relate to the pain I was in. I spent endless hours…

involuntarily what others smoke, putting our life at risk because others decide not to care. Tobacco should be banned. The most important reason is health. There are many cancer cases every year because of tobacco abuse, and asthma is another consequence. Pain and frustration come along as a smoking side effect. Life has become stressful, and our youth have more attraction to relax and avoid frustration, consuming tobacco. Even though tobacco is a horrible habit and has an awful smell…

treat all physical pains given to them. As seen in the article, “The Nursing Story”, one of the nurses tending to patient Steven said, “It was so stressful, because there’s no set way to treat pain; you have to find the right cocktail” (Schwartz 3). This was a surprising comment for me as I didn’t realize that there were not a treatment for all pains. As ignorant as I may be to the limitations of medications, the fact that meds cannot help a patient be relieved of their physical pain is…

Is the act of suffering an unavoidable circumstance? Can people ever truly find relief from the struggles they face? On some level, we can all relate to the feelings of pain and hopelessness in our lives. We often bottle these feelings up, creating a strain within ourselves and the people around us. In the short story, Sonny’s Blues by James Baldwin we are introduced to an unnamed narrator who has dedicated himself to living an orderly life, sheltered from the violence and suffering of the world…

As I have mentioned in my previous posts, I have atrophic scars – some rolling scars on my left cheek and more box scars while on my right, few box scars and more ice pick scars. I guess I’m just lucky to have them all on my face. :/ Three weeks ago, I decided to have Fraxel done. Right after the procedure, I felt that the pits were really raised to the surface but I was not sure as it could be just the effect of having a swollen face. Truly, it was. After the scabs fell off completely (on day…

Abstract Aim: The aim of this study was to assess the efficacy of Aloe vera-Green tea mouthwash in reducing pain after the periodontal pocket reduction surgery. Materials and Methods: A randomized, split-mouth, double-blind, cross-over study was conducted on 45 patients between 25 and 50 years of age requiring pocket reduction surgery. Patients underwent bilateral surgeries in two sessions. After the first surgery, the patients were randomized to receive either mouth-wash or placebo for 10 days,…

LASIK is the utilization of exciter lasers to treat restorative and refractive visual issue, running from shallow scars to partial blindness (nearsightedness), and from astigmatism to farsightedness (hyperopia). The reasons for this study are to checking the relevance and psychometric properties of the SERVQUAL on Lasik surgery populace. Second, utilize SEM strategies to explore the dependability, recoagnitions and desires relationship on LASIK surgery. The strategy with which this study was…