MEDLINE

(CNS). This includes the “special senses” of touch, smell, hearing, taste, sight and as well as pain. Most disorders or disease starts gradually from the symptoms of numbness, pain, burning and tingling, sensitivity to touch and gets worse over time (Medline Plus, 2014). Although symptoms of neuritis are similar to neuralgia and neuropathy,…

this region, or blood disorders such as leukemia. A bone marrow biopsy will provide information to help determine the stage of cancer for individuals diagnosed with cancers such as lymphoma. According to Medline Plus, “[lymphoma] begins when a type of white blood cell...becomes abnormal” (Medline…

It is fascinating to apprehend the fact that nearly every component of my past, present, and future nursing career revolves around the evidence-based practice. Conversely, Parkosewich (2013) emphasizes that the primary aspect of our nursing profession today should be answering clinical questions by evidence-based practice and research. Currently, as a professional diabetes educator, one of the most challenging aspects of teaching is to convince patients to consistently self-monitor their blood…

practice InfoPOEMs Inc. guideline summaries and Griffith's Five-Minute Clinical Consult; subscribers also receive Daily POEMs via e-mail. SUMSearch http://sumsearch.uthscsa.edu/ A search engine that gathers evidence based clinical information from MEDLINE, DARE and the National Guideline Clearinghouse. The University of Texas Health Science…

is similar to type I although people with type IV often need braces or crutches to walk. Life expectancy is normal. There are other types of OI, but they occur very rarely and most are considered subtypes of the moderately severe form type IV. (Medline, 2016) While researching this for this article assignment I can across different inspiration stories of patients living with this disease. Some people with this rare disease have defined all the odds and have chosen not to “live in a bubble…

I am debating in whether to write about the pancreas or Idiopathic thrombocytopenic purpura. Both are very interesting. However, I know much more about the function of the pancreas. Such as it producing insulin and lowering blood sugar levels in the body. Also, how its dysfunction creates diabetes. I would like to write my informative essay on the pancreas because type two diabetes runs in my family. I want to understand how the pancreas dysfunction creates diabetes. How its impairment cause an…

primarily used for larger literature works. There was heavy usage of MEDLINE searches that were used to facilitate this article. In order to recognize all pertinent primary studies, computerized MEDLINE searches were used to produce a comprehensive list of descriptors. There was also a search for the reference lists of previous evaluations of major depression to categorize any accounts that were not located while performing the MEDLINE quest. A…

fluid and blood vessels are pushed away from their usual positions inside the skull (Medline plus, 2016), this causes several severe effects such as loss of consciousness, seizures and death as blood vessels in particular can become compressed, causing brain bleeds which further increase the pressure on the brain, causing cells to burst (and stop functioning) or be so compressed that they become greatly damaged (Medline plus, 2016). If we have too little water in our bodies, the blood will beome…

Nursing & Allied Health Literature) is a bibliographic search database, which contains references to articles from over 2,900 journals as well as a great number of government documents, dissertations, and standards of practice articles (Chapman, 2009). MEDLINE is the National Library of Medicine journal citation database. As one of the world’s largest search…

Based on what seems to be the nervous system symptoms of the 11-week-old infant, my suspicion is that the infant has Infant Botulism, which is an illness that affects infants from 3 weeks up until 6 months of age. American Family Physician mentions that about 90 percent of infants with botulism are younger than six months. Infant botulism is acquired by swallowing botulism spores and is potentially life-threatening. These spores are from a bacteria known as Clostridium botulinum, which is found…