First Blood

Orbital Cellulitis Orbital cellulitis is an infection in the eye socket (orbit) and the tissues that surround the eye. The infection can spread to the eyelids, eyebrow area, and cheek. It can also cause a pocket of pus to develop around the eye (orbital abscess). In severe cases, the infection can spread to the brain. Orbital cellulitis is a medical emergency. CAUSES The most common cause of this condition is a bacterial infection. The infection usually spreads to the eye socket from…

pump machine, such as the neurocognitive impairment, the systematic inflammation, the long recovery time, and the high operation cost of the heart-lung machine, drove the development of off pump coronary artery bypass (Rose, 2003). The first successful Off-pump CABG was performed in the 1964 by Kolsov (Olearchyk, 1988). It involved placing bypass graft that provided…

As the pregnancy progressed the situation stated to get worst because the pregnancy, as the blood volume expanded and the heart’s pumping ability had to double Dicken’s heart could not tolerate this. Instead of cutting open her chest, cardiologist decided to use a minimally invasive procedure. Five months after the procedure, Jasha was born without complications. It was a first in the northwest and perhaps in the U.S. The hospital says the procedures is rarely performed on pregnant…

It is known to be a self – perpetuating inflammation of an unknown cause hepatitis, and this then goes to the liver associating with autoantibodies. (Friedman 70) There are known to be two types of autoimmune hepatitis. The first type of autoimmune hepatitis is characterized by SMA, it’s the most common type in the U.S. Now, the second type of autoimmune hepatitis is very well commonly affected to children. Autoimmune hepatitis usually has basic diagnostic tests. This disease…

Although my eyes were swollen and I can barely see, I still had a vision that the doctor was a beautiful white tall young lady. The other doctors came in to try and help my situation. They started sucking on my blood and spitting to remove the poison. My body couldn’t handle the loss of blood. I was getting into a coma, and there was no way…

Like the legislation in may of 1983 the U.S. Congress passed the first bill to help fund AIDS research. It gave $12 million to the U.S. Department of Health and Humans Services ( ))). People also started to make a difference like the San Francisco General Hospital opened ward 5B. All the workers that worked…

for my phone to se if that holds any answers. Its on the edge of the window sill, infrount of my window that is wide open, footprints of blood leads from my window to my bed. My mind is racing, but I snatch my phone and the texts instantly pop up between Blair and I. I finish reading when a shiny object on the nightstand catches my eye. A knife covered in blood. Vivid images squeeze their way into my mind and replay what had happened only hours…

to moderately sized pneumothoraces.4 A chest tube is used to re-expand the effected lung by attaching to the Heimlich vale and remains in place until the lung is properly inflated.5 The chest tube is effective “in about 85%-90% of patients on the first episode of PSPs,” however the use of a chest tube increases the chance of recurrance.4 Surgical interventions are generally not considered until the second episode of PSP. The preferred innervation is the thoracoscopy or VATS (video-assisted…

Discussion The ideal treatment option for UPJO would be minimally invasive with a low complication and failure rate. Management of UPJ stenosis has been significantly influenced by many minimally invasive techniques, including percutaneous ureteroscopic, endopyelotomy, cutting transvesical balloon dilatation as well as laparoscopic pyeloplasty. All of these procedures were introduced with the aim to obtain the standard of open dismembered pyeloplasty providing long-term success rates between 93…

Paraphimosis Paraphimosis is a serious condition in which the fold of skin that stretches over the tip of the penis (foreskin) becomes stuck when it is pulled back. The condition keeps blood from flowing away from the penis tip, causing swelling that gets worse and worse. Paraphimosis needs to be treated right away. CAUSES This condition may be caused by: A foreskin that is tighter than normal. Leaving the foreskin pulled back after a procedure, such as after the placement of a…