Kidney stone

I. Introduction A. Attention-getter: How do you feel when you have to wait for something you really, really want? What if it was something you literally couldn’t live without? According to an article written by The National Kidney Foundation in 2005, “Nearly 10% of the patients currently waiting for liver transplants are young individuals under the age of 18.” That was us last year. Now could you imagine that was our little siblings and cousins or some neighborhood child you see running around…

techniques to increase condensation rate in thermal desalination (i.e. use of nuclei to increase water vapour condensation in industrial scale), and conceptual design of new desalination technology based on anatomy of loop of Henle in marine mammals kidney were some other mentioned ideas for last phase of this research project. Finally the last discussed idea selected to investigate in detail as the last topic of this research as a separation based technologies. Salt and water management in…

Educating the Public on Organ Donation in Order to Yield a Higher Output of Organ Donors in California For those of us who have gotten our driver’s licenses, we were asked if we would like to be an organ donor. The State of California, by default, registers each person as a non-donor and upon receiving a license people can decide to “opt in” and become an organ donor. Yes, this system does work and it has for over 4 decades, but it has a significant drawback. There are over 123,000 people…

When Would You Administer Mannitol? Mannitol is a diuretic. It has many uses. It is most commonly used to increase urine production and flush the kidneys. It can, also, be used to decrease swelling and pressure inside the eye or around the brain. Another use is the elimination of toxic substances, such as aspirin, barbituates, bromides, and carbon monoxide from the body. First, mannitol can perform all of these functions because it is a diuretic. This means that the addition of it to…

Acute infectious prostatitis – This type of prostatitis is a condition that caused by bacteria, which can be treated by antimicrobial medications. This condition develops unexpectedly and its common symptoms are fever and chills, which are extensive. That is why a visit to the nearest urology clinic or emergency room so that the urology specialist can provide essential diagnosis and treatment as well as hospitalization. Chronic infectious prostatitis – This type of prostititis is caused by a…

In this article, Susanne Lundin talks about the trading and trafficking of organs, and explains why people would want to buy them or sell them. Moreover, to make us understand better the situation the author tells us how the Ethernet is an active tool for trading organs, how the trading and trafficking works, and from where this is all coming from. First, Lundin tell us how people are trading organs on websites. Some people announce their organs on sale via service exchange websites, explaining…

Every year between 700 and 800 adolescents ages 11 - 17 undergo a type of organ transplant.But before they must go through this surgery, they are the ones making the decision to go ahead with it.One example of this poor policy is Courtney Montgomery, who had been battling heart problems her whole life.She refused to undergo a heart transplant to save her life, as a result of past transplants which were temporally and didn’t remove the problem, she had given up hope.Believing she made the right…

to enter the bloodstream which can lead to kidney damage (Miller, n.d). • Creatine Kinase (CK) o Is an enzyme released by damaged muscle. CK is used to diagnose and follow muscle disease (Miller n.d). • Aspartate transaminase & alanine transaminase o Elevated levels of may be due to damaged muscles or overworking the muscles (Sjogren 2007). • Creatinine o A product of o A breakdown produce created by muscles. Normally removed from the body by the kidneys (Miller n.d). • Risk factors include:…

The kidneys create and process approximately a liter and a half of urine every day (Port, 2015, p. 599). Inside the kidney, there are more than a million cells that make urine called nephrons. Contained in each nephron is a glomerulus and the job of the glomerulus is to filter the blood. When the glomerulus are…

poll in the American Psychological Association’s journal Health Psychology, 95% of Americans support organ donation, but only 40% of eligible Americans are actually registered as organ donors (Wood, Janice). In 2014, 4,761 patients died waiting for a kidney transplant, and 3,668 people became ineligible for transplants because they became too sick (“Organ Donation and Transplantation Statistics”). Based off of data collected by Donate Life America, 24% of patients on the organ transplant list…