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    Vietnamese Food Problem

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    Agriculture is a practice of farming where it grows crops and nurture animals to provide food, wool, and other good products. The agricultural production is the main source for developing countries currency where those countries need to buy necessary machines and equipment for manufacture of agriculture. One of the most important crops in Asia agriculture production is the “miracle and amazing” rice that has been expanding for generation. As today’s society, many other countries around the world…

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    of arteries, arterioles, capillaries venous and veins. (Sherwood). Understanding this fundamental system is critical to help further understand even more complicated medical conditions such as Postural orthostatic tachycardia syndrome (POTS), inappropriate HR increase when standing (Freeman et al., 2011). In addition, the cardiovascular system also has other properties that helps ensure proper function. One of those properties involves how the veins dilate in response to metabolites, waste…

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    Auscultation Case Study

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    1. Auscultation method is more accurate by using the stethoscope to listen for systolic blood pressure compared to palpation of systolic blood pressure at wrist. It is easier to listen for the ‘tap’ during the systolic pressure rather than palpating for it, as the systolic pressure may not be palpated if it is a weak pulse. 2. Systolic pressure: • Pressure in the arteries when the blood is being pumped out of the heart into the arteries • The maximum blood pressure, when the ventricles are in…

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    or reduce the coagulation of blood, prolonging the clotting time. Given a drug like Heparin acutely can limit the further formation of thrombus. When given chronically, for example Warfarin help prevent thromboembolism from the venous system (Leg veins). These drugs can also prevent clot formation in a dissected area. Thrombolytic drugs dissolve blood clots by activating plasminogen, which forms a cleaved product called plasmin. Plasmin is a proteolytic enzyme that is capable of breaking…

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    Blood Donation Speech

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    story questions then temperature, blood pressure, pulse and hemoglobin are checked to ensure donor’s blood is safe to use.), donating (where the donor is asked to sit on a chair. His or her blood is cleaned with alcohol and a needle is inserted into a vein in his or her arm. The needle is removed after fifteen minutes when nearly a pint of blood of blood has been collected.) and refreshment (where the donor spends a few minutes enjoying refreshments to replace the fluids that he or she lost…

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    Furthermore, the more we exercise changes would occur in our cardiovascular system. When performing exercise, your muscles would need sufficient amount of oxygen and nutrients so that you can perform well. Also, the carbon dioxide produced should be released from the body. It is the main role of the heart to pump harder and faster when exercising so that oxygen is taken in and carbon dioxide is released as a by-product. There are many acute changes that occur in this system before, during and…

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    The automatic response of the body is to increase cardiovascular output when activity rate increases; in order to raise oxygen levels in the blood for cell respiration. However, this response is varied depending on the type of activity being undertaken by muscles. A higher intensity exercise such as running causes a larger cardiovascular response however in the increase in mean arterial pressure is small. Whereas a lower intensity exercise causes a low cardiovascular response but the increase in…

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    Clinical Paper for Off-Sight Observation Experience: Special Procedures Madison Munday University of North Dakota Clinical Paper for Off-Sight Observation Experience: Special Procedures For my off-sight observation experience, I was assigned to shadow at Special Procedures. I had the opportunity to learn about many different conditions and procedural techniques, so it was an excellent contribution to my nursing education. At Special Procedures, I was able to follow three patients.…

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    Vascular access: Vascular access has a double lumen catheter located in the subclavian vein and artery in place. The caregiver removes the soiled dressing and assesses the site for infection. Once that 's completed the caregiver sterilizes it with a choraprep swab. The tubes are connected and the caregiver aspirates each port, then is flushed…

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    cellular waste products and permits blood to circulate and form cells in the body to nourish it with every heartbeat throughout the body.However, the Cardiovascular system is composed of the following organs, heart and blood vessels, including arteries, veins, and capillaries. One of the major structures of this system is the heart which functions to propel blood throughout the body, supplying oxygen and nutrients to the tissues. For example, the right side of the heart pumps blood through the…

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