Equivalent dose

My name is Jurxia Delgado. I am a nurse that cares and deals with adults. As an adult nurse, I would have to work with different kinds of adults such as the elderly and young with a range of health conditions varying from injuries to illnesses and diseases. As a nurse I have many roles and responsibilities which includes checking the client’s progress and well-being and with the help of doctors together we decide what care and treatment the patient will receive. Also, as an adult nurse I have…

1950’s. Canadian scientist James Till and Ernest McCulloch and their experiments on mice are what discovered this type of cell. Till and McCulloch created an experiment to test the radiation sensitivity of bone marrow. They did this by giving mice a dose of radiation that would kill them within 30 days unless they received a bone marrow transplant that had not been treated with radiation. The…

Eligible patients were randomly assigned to receive either gefitinib (at a dose of 250 mg per day orally) or standard chemotherapy. The standard chemotherapy is paclitaxel (at a dose of 200 mg per square meter of body-surface area, given intravenously over a 3-hour period) and carboplatin (at a dose equivalent to an area under the concentration–time curve [AUC] of 6, given intravenously over a 1-hour period), both administered on the first…

Types of errors include inaccurate prescribing, administering the wrong medication, giving the medication using the wrong route or time interval, administering extra doses or failing to administer. (Potter, Perry, Stockert, & Hall, 2013). 22% of medication errors occur in the administration stage; use of bar-code technology and smart infusion pumps may have an impact on reducing those errors (Tzeng. Yin, & Schneider…

in radiotherapy failed so badly that they distributed lethal doses of radiation to the patients, thus killing them. Before this, software developers were not a crucial part of the software design timeline. The first language that allowed programs to be written, thus potentially creating the software engineering discipline, was called FORTRAN and was developed in 1957. FORTRAN was not like the languages that are used to program computers now, as it used punch cards. Punch cards were the program,…

heart attacks and strokes and 140,000 deaths worldwide. Human volunteers testing a new monoclonal antibody treatment at Northwick Park Hospital, the UK in 2006 suffered a severe allergic reaction and nearly died. Testing in monkeys at 500 times the dose given to the volunteers totally failed to predict the dangerous side effects"…

Some nuclear power plants benefit humans by creating a needed supply of electricity. They are usually built near water to remove the heat the reactor produces. The way that this happens is the power plants heat water to produce the electricity. With the steam that’s produced from the heated water, large turbines begin to spin that essentially generate the electricity. The nuclear power plants use the heat that is produced during nuclear fission to heat the water. A nuclear fission is when…

starting 10 years after exposure and persisting lifelong ? Obesity is associated with an increased breast cancer risk in postmenopausal women who have not used hormone therapy ? Alcohol consumption is associated with increased breast cancer risk in a dose-dependent fashion: the greater…

or vinyl and come in various lead equivalencies (Howeron & Iannucci, 2012). If used as a secondary barrier to absorb scattered radiation an apron with lead equivalency of at least 0.25mm should be used. Lead aprons shall be at least 0.5mm of lead equivalent for fluoroscopy but can be higher to the range of 1mm of lead equivalence. (Howerton &Iannucci,…

Part 1: adverse reactions 1.1 Introduction (QT prolongation) The toxicity of antipsychotic drugs is considered a good example of specific gender differences in Adverse Drug Reactions (ADRs) in a dose-dependent manner [1]. This adverse effect is induced cardiac arrhythmia known as torsade de pointes (TdP) (delay of cardiac repolarization), are associated with the following drugs such as; chlorpromazine, mesoridazine, pimozide and thioridazone, which increase the risk of QT prolongation. It…