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physical health concern, marijuana can affect the heart and lungs of the person. In the article, Robinson shows that, “Smoking pot can increase your heart rate by as much as two times for up to 3 hours” and “smokers are more likely to have an ongoing cough and to have lung-related health problems like chest colds and lung infections” (How Does Marijuana Affect You?). In any case, marijuana smokers also have similar respiratory problems to cigarette smokers and this is the reason why some people…

Beta blockers are the first line drug choice when treating angina related to CAD. Beta blockers decrease cardiac oxygen demand, by blocking beta receptors in the heart, decreasing heart rate and contractibility, reducing peripheral resistance and after load. Slowing heart rate increases diastolic fill time, increasing the amount of time blood flows throughout myocardial vessels. When taken with nitroglycerin, extra benefits include blunting reflex tachycardia. Dosage starts out low and slowly…

Congestive Heart Failure The heart is fundamentally a blood pump. It pumps blood from the right side of the heart to the lungs to pick up oxygen. The oxygenated blood returns to the left side of the heart. The left side of the heart then pumps blood into the circulatory system of blood vessels that carry blood throughout the body. Heart failure is an illness in which the pumping action of the heart becomes less and less powerful. When this happens, blood does not move efficiently through the…

Herbal Medicine is also called Botanical medicine or Phytomedicine, that refers to using a plant’s root, seed, leaves, or flower for Medicinal purposes. Herbal medicine is used to treat many conditions such as allergies, migraine, chronic fatigue etc. Uses Practitioners often combine herbs together to make it more effective. When recommending herbs, health care providers must always be careful. There are a variety of species of plant with such different habitat, and how it was stored or…

Posters like these often make it as if it 's the young youths patriotic duty to fight and protect what their military ancestors had done. Always fighting for a righteous reason and not selfish reasons *cough* oil *cough*. This one specifically shows that we fight and only fight for liberty like the soldiers that fought in the revolutionary war in 1778 against Great Britain. This one specifically was plastered on walls, but also put in the barracks of boot camps…

The program is a good program and could be bad at the same time. The things it teaches children is what parents are supposed to do it adds more excuses for parents to leave their kids at school and not handle the talks they should have. On the other hand, with so many single parents it a good thing for parents that do work and cannot do the talking with their children. The dare program adds safety to schools and police presents which can deter crime in schools. School safety is an important…

A citronella candle puddles away in a bucket, its sharp, warm scent hanging in the air. It smells like the old world—smells of summers long ago that were fresh and green and full of promise and those nights Robin had spent out on the porch with Jim, a few beers, and a guitar they passed between each other, plucking out the opening riff to “Stairway to Heaven” over and over because they never learned anything else. Robin closes his eyes. The old man does what he can for his shoulder, cleaning it…

infection. Risk factors include sedation, coma, intoxication, poor gag reflex, dysphagia, and age, particularly in older adults. Visual signals of aspiration pneumonia include chest pain, cyanosis, crackling in the lungs, decreased oxygen, tachycardia, cough with sputum and decreased awareness. Diagnostic exams and test include arterial blood gas, blood culture, bronchoscopy, chest x-ray or a CT-scan. Treatment includes antibiotics and sometimes a ventilator to support breathing. A swallow…

Obstructive Pulmonary Disease (COPD), includes asthma, chronic bronchitis, and emphysema and is a “chronic non-curable disease”. (Long, M. B., Bekelman, D. B., & Make, B. 2014) Chronic bronchitis is an inflammation of the airway structures, causing a cough (that lasts three months out of the year for two years), phlegm, wheezing, and difficulty breathing. (Corbridge, S., Wilken, L., Kapella, M. C., & Gronkiewicz, C. 2012) Emphysema is “the destruction of lung tissue in which the walls of the air…

(Skibinski, Dr. David). For example, under the trade name Pediarix®, you will get the combination of DTaP, HepB, IPV (Skibinski, Dr. David). This combination will assist in the prevention of 5 total illnesses including diphtheria, tetanus, whooping cough, hepatitis b, and polio. This is a great benefit for everyone because of the modernized approach with few vaccines. In addition to Pediarix®, there are a few more with the same goals in mind such as Kinrix™, Pentacel™, Boostrix™, and Adacel™…