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    54-year-old female janitor who sustained a work-related injury to her back and right arm from a slip and fall on snow and ice. As per OMNI, she was diagnosed with low back pain and radiculopathy. The patient underwent bilateral decompressive laminectomy on 8/12/15. As per progress notes on 11/3/15 by Dr. Cristian Brotea, the patient is 3 months status post L4-S1 lumbar laminectomy and fusion with instrumentation from which she has been doing relatively well. She has experienced significant…

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    Congested Heart Failure, often referred to as CHF, is when the hearts output pressure is weaker than normal. This will cause the blood to have a decreased pressure circulating the body, but the internal pressure within the heart will increase. As a result the heart cannot keep up with supplying the body enough oxygen and nutrients that it depends on. So the chambers of the heart will stretch due to the increase in pressure to try and hold more blood to pump through the body or may become stiff…

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    Hypovolemic Shock

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    causes a sudden loss in the oxygen carrying capacity of the blood related to the sudden decline in available red blood cells. As the heart is unable to properly pump oxygen to the rest of the body, vital organs begin to shut down, eventually leading to death. It is because of this reason that it must be treated as a medical emergency. This form of shock can be caused by a variety of factors which include hemorrhage and dehydration. With prompt treatment and correction of underlying condition,…

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    suffering from Hypertension (HBP) which is when the pressure of blood is stained against the arterial walls. Due to the fact that Dr. Alley has stopped taking his medication, this has caused long-term affliction to his heart. The doctor has also been experiencing dyspnea (difficulty breathing ). This can be a warning of a condition to his heart or lungs. Recently the doctor has also been affected by oppressive epistaxis known as a nosebleed. The nose bleeding could possibly be from a systemic…

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    Gallstones Research Paper

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    The disease that I choose was “Gallstones”. What are Gallstones?It’s a small,hard crystalline mass formed abnormally in the gallbladder or bile dics from bile pigments,cholesterol,and calcium salts.Gallstones can cause severe pain and blockage of the bile duct.More than one million americans are diagnosed with gallstones (Choleithiasic) every year,More than 25 million already have this disorder.The causes of gallstones is called Imbalances in the substances.But the two types of gallstones are…

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    Atrial Fibrillation Essay

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    associated with stroke, dementia, heart failure, and reduced quality of life. About 15–20 percent of people who have strokes have this heart arrhythmia. According to data from the Journal of the American Medical Association (JAMA), over 2.3 million people in the United States have some type of AFib.…

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    Enlarged Spleen Essay

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    What is Enlarged Spleen in Cats? Splenomegaly, or an enlarged spleen, is a symptom of another condition or disease. The enlargement is due to inflammation, which occurs due to infiltration of cells as a result of the primary condition. The primary condition that is causing the enlargement is typically related to the function of the spleen, such as filtering blood or synthesizing antibodies in the cat's body. The cat's spleen may either enlarge uniformly over the entire organ or enlarge…

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    Deca 250 Research Papers

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    water retention, doesn’t have any effect on a person’s blood pressure and most important of all, it isn’t toxic to the liver and kidneys as most body building substances. One more notable thing about Deca 250 is its ability to relieve a person from painful and inflamed joints. There are theories that this is due to it having an anti-inflammatory receptors like cortisol have. With this it acts more like a catabolic cortisol and then replaces it with an anabolic analogue which also has similar…

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    Nursing Case Summary

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    DOI: 12/23/2013. Patient is a 51-year-old female registered nurse who sustained a work related injury due to repetitive work. Per OMNI, she is initially diagnosed with strain to the knee patella. MRI of the right knee dated 10/9/15 revealed globular increased signal intensity is seen throughout the medial meniscus most consistent with intrasubstance degeneration; tricompartmental osteoarthritic changes; joint effusion; pre-patellar soft tissue edema, query contusion; and chrondromalacia…

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    Vaping Exercise Analysis

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    I have brought this subject up in the past. Both times I was not given the opportunity of state my side of the argument. As a precursor: This is me informing you, my parents of a decision I have made. A decision I have thought about for multiple weeks. I, with the funds I earned by house sitting, intend to purchase a Vaporizing Device. Within this device I only intend to use Nicotine free Vaporizing Liquids. The device I intend to purchase has a multitude of safety features. I have read…

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