Intravenous therapy

EMLA and Intravenous Access This study was completed by Schreiber et al (2013) to see if the alleged vasoconstrictive effects of EMLA cream make it more difficult for healthcare workers to initiate intravenous access in children. The article begins by discussing pain from venipuncture and venous cannulation and how local anaesthetic cream such as EMLA can be used to reduce the pain; however, 16 out of 58 clinicians interviewed believed that using EMLA cream on young children made achieving…

Guillain-Barré Syndrome Guillain-Barré syndrome (GBS) is not something that many people have dealt with or even heard of for that matter. According to the CDC, there is somewhere between 3,000-6,000 cases of GBS per year in the United States. That amounts to 1-2 people out of 100,000 per year (CDC, 2009). For me, Guillain-Barré syndrome is something that I have known about since I was eight years old. Not only was I aware that it existed, I thought it was going to take my dad away from me.…

Introduction Pompe Disease is also referred to as GAA Deficiency, Glycogenesis Type II, and Glycogen Storage Disease Type II. It is a lysosomal storage disorder that must be passed down by both parents due to the fact that it is a recessive mutation in genes (Type II, 2014). As a lysosomal disorder, Pompe Disease is the inability of lysosomes to breakdown glycogen into glucose and causes the glycogen to build up inside the lysosome (Pompe, 2010). The glycogen build up has specific effects on…

Gruener 2010, p. 972). Medical Management: Unfortunately CIM does not have a specific medical therapy. According to Chawla & Gruener (2010, p. 971), treatments are mainly supportive and symptomatic. First, neurologic assessments must regularly be performed to document any unexpected neurologic changes. Second, vascular management for prophylaxis for deep vein thrombosis; respiratory therapy is necessary to minimize risk for pulmonary infection. Third, integumentary protection…

society with detailed knowledge on how to treat and prevent ailments that plague American society. I originally pursued a career in physical therapy because it provides patients with noninvasive alternatives to increase physical health and well-being. My interest developed further after experiencing this field from the perspective of a patient and a physical therapy aide. I witnessed interactions that demonstrated the importance of cultural competence and effective communication skills. For…

for mobility as well as trained to perform specific task to help people with disabilities and accompany them in almost any location. According to the Division 17 website there are many ways animals are beneficial to humans such as for psychiatric, therapy, companionship, emotional support and so much more. Some of these categories don’t consist of any training while others do. Animals are prescribed by the mental health provider to assist and as crazy as it might sound medication might not be…

al., 2014). Gabriels et al. (2012) did a pilot study to evaluate the effects of equine therapy on self-regulation behaviors, adaptive skills, and motor skills of school age children to adolescents diagnosed with Autism Spectrum Disorder. This study had 42 participants that were split up into groups of three to four to participate in the riding lessons. The lessons were focused on the individual’s therapy and their horsemanship. The instructors set individual therapeutic and horsemanship…

I believe that Mr. Rachels would agree with my argument above. In his article titled “Active and Passive Euthanasia,” he explains two scenarios; a case involving a patient with incurable throat cancer, and another involving a baby with Down’s syndrome and a easily treatable intestinal blockage. Though these arguments cover a wide range of cases, they don’t appear to apply to Ms. Reese’s case. Throughout James Rachels’ discussion of the morality of active versus passive euthanasia, he fails to…

assistance of a doctor, the patient is administered to either surgery or physical therapy depending on which option the patient chooses. Both the options in almost all cases do help improve the pain of the patient, but the question is which option is responsible for the most improvement…

Hans Strupp and Lester Luborsky were “examining similar features of treatment process, therapist characteristics, and the role of technique vs. relationship factors in effecting outcome’ (Samstag, 2007, p. 296). Rogers client-centred approach to therapy was in stark contrast to “Freudian psychoanalysis where man was understood as being controlled by unconscious forces that operated outside of awareness” (Samstag, 2007, p. 295) and “Skinner’s radical behaviourism which sought to understand…