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An independent 72-year old man , MR. Allan, presented to the emergency department with progressively increasing shortness of breath (SOB) over the past few months .Initially shortness of breath was exertional , but increased to shortness of breath at rest. He had an ongoing cough for one week. My essay will begin with a review of his presenting condition, patient history and symptoms on arrival to Intensive care unit. I will also look at the patient investigations and assessment findings. MR…

Deciding to move to a rest home is a major decision that involves many factors to consider. A different emotion is experienced both by the family and the patient itself. But the main aim here is to improve the quality of care for the aged persons. Providing holistic care, managing safety for all the residents and treating them with great dignity. We choose one of the private rest home here in New Zealand as the existing health sector organisation. A 75-bed capacity institution rendering…

Animal Agriculture: The Leading Cause of Climate Change Food by means of animal agriculture is – and probably always will be – an extension of our lives. Even before recorded time, humans have been raising livestock for means of survival and personal use and have only embraced this process as time progressed because it is our main source of food. We’ve adopted methods of artificial selection and gene manipulation to raise a more desirable superpopulation of livestock that environmental…

The Specimen Reception – where I spent most of my day-to-day work – is part of the Lab-Med group that is situated in the Central Pathology lab, and is made up of the biochemistry laboratory, the haematology laboratory – which includes cryobiology and coagulation, the microbiology lab, the histopathology lab – which includes cytopathology, the immunology lab, cancer molecular diagnostics, and transfusion medicine, as well as the Irish mycobacterium reference lab, and the national MRSA reference…

ACKNOWLEDGEMENT It is my pleasure to thank all those who helped me and made my project work a success. I would like to thank my parents who made this research possible and for extending their moral support and patience. I like to thank the Principal of our Institution, Prof. Parvardhavardhani Gopalakrishnan as well as the Project coordinator, Prof. Y.G. Tharakan, for all the patience and guidance provided to me throughout the dissertation period. I take this opportunity in expressing the…

Benzene is the simplest aromatic hydrocarbon that is represented with the formula C6H6. It was discovered in 1825 by a British scientist, Michael Faraday, who extracted it from crude oil by applying pressure, and named it “Bicarburet of hydrogen”. However, its chemical synthesis did not start until in 1843, Charles Mansfield, discovered a method to extract benzene from coal tar. Since its industrialization, benzene is produced and used in many industrial processes. Today, plastics, resins, dyes…

URINARY TRACT INFECTIONS Abstract UTI is one of the most common infection to affect people all around the world in today's world, putting a huge load on the health care system cost wise. Because this problem is so common and so significant in routine clinical practice, a high level of diagnostic accuracy is essential. The urinary tract infection (UTI) which involves urethra, bladder or kidneys can be infected, the majority of UTI are not serious and can be treated by antibiotics but if not…

Located in northeastern Alberta (Pasqualetti 2009, p. 248) are the “largest oil-sand deposits in the world” (Pasqualetti 2009, p. 250). The Alberta oil sands provide a necessary resource that is valuable to the Albertan and Canadian economies. The oil sands have received ample attention in recent years from the media and from various environmental agencies and groups due to “growing concern about a range of environmental impacts” (Jordaan 2012, p. 3611). These concerns are not without merit, as…

which are all made up of neurons. http://www.msnucleus.org/membership/html/k-6/lc/humanbio/4/lchb4_3a.html Cardiovascular system The cardiovascular system is made up of your heart, your blood vessels (arteries, veins and capillaries) and about 5 litres of blood that the blood vessels will transport through the body and is powered by the heart. Its purpose is to pump blood that sends nutrients and oxygen to the body's organs and tissues.…

Apparatus • 1x hot plate • 1x electronic scales • 4x 100mL beaker • 4x glass stirring rod • 4x thermometer • 1x chemical spatula • 500mL of deionised water • 500g of sugar (sucrose – C12H22O11) • 100g of salt (NaCl) • 100g of copper sulphate pentahydrate (CuSO4•5H2O) Method 1. Fill a 100mL beaker with 50mL of water and then weigh it using electron scales and take note of the mass. Place the beaker on the hot plate, but don’t turn the hot plate on. 2. Place a thermometer in the beaker of water…