Epidural

Health care-acquired infection (HCAI) is a foremost problem for patient safety and its surveillance. Prevention of HCAI has got to be the first main concern for settings and institutions dedicated to making health care safer. The impact of HCAI implies extended hospital stay, long-term disability, increased antimicrobials resistance of microorganisms, massive extra economic load, high expenses for patients and their families, and excess mortalities ( Boyce J., 2009). In the USA, 10%, or 2…

In What is the Safest Sprint Starting Position for American Football Players?, a research article provided by the Journal of Sports Science and Medicine, authors Bonnechere, Beyer, Rooze, and Serge Van Sint, state that the four-point starting position leads to a higher risk of concussion or neck injury in American football players. They also deduce from their research that there is no influence on the learning process effect in varying individuals (i.e. football players and non-players).…

Working in my first preceptored clinical on Labour and Delivery (L&D) unit helps my learning and growth as a becoming healthcare professional. This unit is very different than other units I have been on before but there is one thing that every floor has in common is to provide client-centered care. Preceptored clinical experience So far, I had five PM shift on L&D and most of the times were crazy busy. I believe I had attend in more than ten deliveries and observed two cesarean sections. The…

Achondroplasia Achondroplasia is a form of short-limbed dwarfism. GENE: The FGFR3 gene makes a protein called fibroblast growth factor receptor 3. The function of the protein from the gene is involved in transforming cartilage into bone. FGFR3 is the only gene known to be related with achondroplasia. There is also a receptor called tyrosine kinase. It negatively regulates the growth plate activity and stright bone growth. All people who have only a single copy of the normal FGFR3 gene and a…

Prior and during my clinical experience, I had some free time to go and read up on some EBP. One article that I came across was about how skin-to-skin can affect both mother and baby. The research article stated many points that I was so excited to share with my patient. I had learned a lot of these points from past lectures, but it was awesome to see it in writing. I learned that skin-to-skin from a mothers standpoint is reassuring. The mother feels her baby’s skin next to hers and it actually…

Running head: INTRACRANIAL REGULATION 1 Intracranial Regulation Name Institution  Introduction Cerebrospinal fluid is a colorless body fluid that is found in the brain and spinal cord. It is produced by the choroid plexuses of the ventricle of the brain. It protects the cortex of the brain providing many mechanical protections. Also, it provides immunological to the brain in the skull. The brain produces about…

prone to high blood pressure because it is hereditary. Six years ago, I was pregnant and had my son four weeks early because I had extremely elevated blood pressure. My blood pressure during labor was 200/100, then my doctor suggested to receive an epidural to stabilize my blood pressure. High blood pressure caused many other problems as well and caused my son to be born prematurely. The experience I had with high blood pressure was horrible and never crossed my mind that multiple family members…

Taking charge of my emotional well-being allowed me to be more present with Adriana, a single teen mother I worked with during an agonizing labor. I massaged her lower back and hips and helped her choose between receiving an epidural or having the natural birth that her culture demanded. Even though we had just met, the work with her was intimate and eye-opening; Adriana taught me that genuine concern transcends barriers and can foster connections between people. Gloria was a…

The documentary, Orgasm, Inc, discusses the evolution of “female dysfunction disorder” and how this had inevitably led to the medicalization of female sexuality. The filmmaker, Liz Canner, begins by explaining how it was in the first place that she came about studying female sexual dysfunction “for nine years” and how this led her in making a documentary exposing the pharmaceutical companies’ roles in making profit by creating and defining the very diseases they “claim” to be able to cure.…

turn down the television” (Abbott, 2006, p. 126). Currently EEG-based neurofeed-back BCIs are not practical; they are not complex enough for everyday use. According to Gharabaghi et al. in a journal called From assistance towards restoration with epidural brain-computer interfacing, EEG-based BCIs are ‘non-invasive’ because of low spatial resolution, “each EEG contact [samples] 105 -108 neurons, a low signal-to-nose- ratio due to signal attenuation caused by the skull, [contaminants from] muscle…