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    This is exacerbated by the rotation of the table with the patient’s head away from the anaesthetic machine. The endotracheal tube must be well secured in a position that facilitates surgical access. There is the potential for damage to the head and neck from the robotic arms. The eyes must be protected. A mouth guard, used to provide surgical access, also protects the teeth…

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    then you will be redirected to the article Noninvasive Ventilation written by Guy Soo Hoo that states “Noninvasive ventilation (NIV) refers to the administration of ventilatory support without using an invasive artificial airway (endotracheal tube or tracheostomy tube).” Now if you are a person that likes to look at books to get the answer, then David W. Chang wrote in Clinical Application of Mechanical Ventilation that “noninvasive positive pressure ventilation is a technique of providing…

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    Double Effect

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    patient A for example. Patient A has condition X and needs a G-tube to stay alive. A is not conscious and therefore cannot give informed consent. A does have a health care agent and the agent gives permission to the clinician. So, A is given a G-tube. After two months of not getting better, the agent asks the clinician to withdraw the G-tube, knowing that withdrawal will lead to A’s death. After some discussion, the clinician withdraws the G-tube and A dies. Here the doctrine of double effect…

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    Doctor Robert W. Sears, author of The Vaccination Book: Making the Right Decisions for Your Child, once said, “With the growing mistrust of vaccinations... more and more parents are saying no to vaccines. Illnesses that are very rare right now, that most parents don’t have to fear...” Vaccines have been used for decades, and have continued to change and advance as the scientific field has gained more knowledge on defeating a multitude of diseases and sicknesses. The question is how are vaccines…

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    During Patient Hand-Overs' World Health Organization 1(3) Royal college of Physicians (2017) Improving teams in healthcare Resource 3: Team communication. London: RCP S. Farrow, C. Farrow, N. Soni (2012) 'Size matters: choosing the right tracheal tube' The Association of Anaesthetists of Great Britain and Ireland, 67(11), pp.…

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    Pathophysiology Q 1.1. Chronic obstructive pulmonary disease is the name applied to two related diseases, emphysema and chronic bronchitis. Chronic obstructive pulmonary disease is characterised by abnormal inflammatory obstruction of the airways, lung parenchyma, (respiratory bronchioles and alveoli) and pulmonary blood vessels (Brown, 2013). Research shows that COPD is being recognised as an inflammatory disorder of the large and small airways characterized by remodelling and emphysematous…

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    Safe Anaesthesia Essay

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    Introduction: The delivery of safe Anaesthesia to patients today has developed alongside the increasing complex surgeries and operations that are carried out on patients as and when required, either for pre-planned operations or for acute medical emergency and trauma cases. Pre-operative meeting and assessment of the patient by an Anaesthetist (Medical Practitioner) ideally weeks before the planned surgery is essential for safe Anaesthesia to be delivered. Providing an adequate…

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    Safe Care Model

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    Safe care needs NP’s to take decisions & actions against situations of risk that threaten the safety of patients and the possible occurrence of incidents that can be from the slightest, that may often go unnoticed, to serious adverse events & consequences which can result in disability, injury, or death. Analyzing incidents in systemic ways based on reflective & systematic models, where errors are investigated from the insecure act of the NP towards decisions at managerial level, replaces a…

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    Total Knee Arthroplasty My emotions were all over the place the night before preparing for the OR. I was worried about getting there on time, being able to find the OR, and most of all what surgery would I be observing. The morning of came very quickly and I was up and ready to go. When I first arrived to the OR tunnel my anxiety had come down a lot, and I seemed eager and ready to go. Once I got changed out into the OR scrubs, I then had the option to pick which surgery I wanted to…

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    Suddenly, the patient’s oxygen saturation was dropped. Quickly, I administered bronchodilator and put comfortable position. Patient condition was deteriorating, so duty doctor took decision for intubation. A new Resident Doctor inserted endotracheal tube (ET) tube with guidance but unfortunately it went on wrong place (esophagus). Patient’s…

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