Electrocardiography

Phenytoin Toxicity Phenytoin is a medicine that is used to help control many seizure problems. Phenytoin toxicity means the amount of phenytoin in the blood is high enough to cause problems. Your caregiver will carefully and frequently monitor the amount of phenytoin in the blood to make sure that just the right dose is given. How you feel and your blood test information help guide your caregiver in making sure that a specific dose is best for you. CAUSES Changes in other prescription…

In the first study, it was hypothesized that with incremental-theory teaching, it would help an adolescent to respond to social stress through challenge type attitude. At the beginning of the experiment, each participant have electrocardiography and blood-pressure measured. There were two groups, in which one would be given an incremental-theory or control group reading and writing exercises. Those in incremental theory group, they are given insights about the theory and they were informed…

TeamSTEPPS Group Assignment Describe the Problem The purpose of this project is to identify, discuss, strategize, and evaluate number four in the Team Structure domain using the TeamSTEPPS Teamwork Perceptions Questionnaire (Agency for Healthcare Research and Quality [AHRQ], 2013). The Team Structure principle, one of five key principles in TeamSTEPPS, identifies team components that work together to ensure patient safety (AHRQ, 2013). Question four asks whether or not a unit makes efficient…

Dermatology Department Today we will discuss the main conditions or diseases we see here in the pediatric department of Dermatology. First we will discuss Ringworms also known as Tinea. I am sure everyone has known someone and especially a child who has gotten ringworms. Before I say anything let me inform you a ringworm is not caused by a worm, I will explain where the name comes from soon. Ringworm is a dermatitis (skin rash), which is caused by dermatomycosis (fungal infection of the skin).…

acute psychological stress, and has further enhanced my knowledge in this area. It has enabled me to gain valuable hands-on experience in electrocardiogram, blood pressure and cortisol measurements, whilst also developing an understanding of electrocardiography. Gaining practical experience in a research environment of this nature, coupled with the enjoyment of writing an intellectually stimulating dissertation, has confirmed that an MRes, and research in general, is suited to…

Passionately Curious Curiosity is the lust of the mind. Have you ever felt that adrenaline rush through your body increasing the mind’s interest of a topic you were freshly introduced to? I feel that passion over the topic of the human body and the medical world and I become determined to learn more. I am interested in the foreign, universal language of medical terminology and of the hands-on skills of assisting a doctor. I strongly feel the desire to gain the knowledge and skills to become…

Laparoscopy, also called minimally invasive surgery (MIS), band aid surgery, keyhole surgery, is a modern surgical technique designed for the visual inspection of peritoneal cavity, biopsy of its organs and various operative procedures in the abdominal and pelvic cavities. Though laparoscopy was first performed in dogs in the early 1900s by Dr. Georg Kelling, the first successful laparoscopic surgery in humans was cholecystectomy in 1987 (1). During last two decades the laparoscopy has been…

Data for this study were derived from an AAOMS Outcomes Assessment Project study of anesthesia and third molar extractions in private practice oral and maxillofacial surgery offices. A randomly selected sample of 300 OMS were instructed to enter data on all eligible patients they treated during a one month period. This study has two study samples, a surgeon sample and subject sample. The surgeon sample was composed of OMSs randomly selected from the population of AAOMS members between June, 2011…

“So you think, so you become.” When ignorance, and poverty struck a whole nation, and the elite makes a call to god… “Nothing in the world is more dangerous than sincere ignorance and conscientious stupidity.” ― Martin Luther King Jr. Many have witnessed or heard about act of terrors in Haiti on the name of “Zombification,” causing by a group of undercover criminals. It is by itself a broad topic full of stupidity, but this idea is important to introduce what I want to tackle today.…

anxious), procedure types (dentoalveolar, pathology, other), anesthesia level grouped as MS or , DS/GA, anesthesia time, monitoring techniques (capnography, blood pressure, pulse oximetry, pericardial stethoscope, pretracheal stethoscope, electrocardiography (ECG), monitoring chest movement, electroencephalogram (EEG), temperature), other monitoring method (yes or no),…