Intensive care medicine

Lenny, a 37-year-old male, was taken to the hospital after feeling a painful pop in the left hip region when his knee hit the dashboard during a car accident. Lenny’s left lower limb was shown to be adducted and medially rotated causing the right limb to be longer than the left. A mass in the lateral gluteal region was also noted with severe pain to follow. The patient is most likely suffering from a posterior hip dislocation. A hip dislocation can damage the bones, ligaments, muscles, vessels,…

The Queen, through her aching coughs manages to ask if the baby would be harmed by her illness. The doctor reassured her and her husband that the baby was not affected and that she herself would return to her normal health in mere days with the new medicine. The doctor instructs the couple to give him a call if the Queen does not feel better in a week. The King helps the Queen take her…

Vitamin E is key for strong immunity and healthy skin and eyes. In recent years, vitamin E supplements have become popular as antioxidants. These are substances that protect cells from damage. However, the risks and benefits of taking vitamin E supplements are still unclear. Vitamin E benefits the body by acting as an antioxidant and protecting vitamins A and C, red blood cells, and essential fatty acids from destruction. Research from decades ago suggested that taking antioxidant supplements,…

Tay-Sachs disease may manifest as blindness, deafness, toneless, mental retardation, dementia, listlessness, seizures and stunted growth. To bad luck of the patient and the parents, Tay-Sachs has no treatment except conservative management like to cover the symptoms to make the patient’s life somewhat comfortable. It may needed by the patient to reach the emergency when he/she has seizures or breathlessness. No known preventive measures have been yet settled except for the genetic testing of…

Computed tomography (CT) is a computerized method that uses a computer to process the data collected from the passage of x-ray beams through the region of interest. The multislice CT (MSCT) means CT that the system equipped with multiple rows of CT detectors to create images of multiple sections. The data obtained from the patient will be transformed into “cuts” or cross-sectional slices of the human body (Romans, 2011). In early 1970, they use a single slice CT scan that contributes too many…

I was awoken to what I know now to be blood and sand. I @%#* felt @$^$# my #@$#% neck hurt and I suddenly unstood it pain in my neck that a collar was attached to causing me to cry. I was in and out of consciousness for three days. When was finally lucid I saw Congradulations you have been born into the world of Ernim. You are level 1 its your birthday you get 5 ability points.Say status for your information say inventory for your storage. I of course wanted to see my information and said…

bleeding used in treatments for the mentally ill. Doctors today treat patients with more care and have more knowledge about their conditions. They do not harm their patients and instead use more mentally stimulating exercises to help them recover such as just talking or giving them puzzles and other brain exercises. They use medication in more severe cases of mental illnesses, but we now have more knowledge of the medicines that we use so they become more safe and help more. We use a similar…

In order to move on to receiving an MD, one must attend four years at Medical school, before going onto three years of residency for a specialty in medicine. After completing these three years of residency, and now there's a pediatrician in the world and are eligible to become certified in pediatrics by passing a test administered by the American Board of Pediatrics. During college, most med students…

“Music Therapy is also used to strengthen nonmusical areas such as communication and physical skills.” (Amy L. Sutton, Complementary & Alternative Medicine Book) Some consider music as a”prescription” that can be used to treat symptoms of mental illness or physical disease. It cannot be…

Imagine being terminally ill patient. Doctors already mentioned that there is no chance of survival. Goodbyes have already said, and you have come to terms with death. Now you are patiently waiting for the illness to kill you. That sounds like a terrible way to die. Many people can agree that they want to die peacefully. Now, what if there was a way for a terminally ill patient to choose how and when to end their lives? Recently, there has a been a controversial topic about whether a patient has…