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The treatment of Attention-Deficit Hyperactivity Disorder, ADHD, is a controversial issue between healthcare professional, patients, and parents. As of today, the most common treatment is stimulants. When prescribing stimulants, doctors have to create a specific plan for each patient. They do this because every Attention-Deficit Hyperactivity case and every patient is different. One patient’s symptoms may be completely different than those experienced by another patient. Patients who have…

Introduction/Background Pulse oximetry (PO) is the one of most commonly used non-invasive medical device that evaluates the patient’s oxygen saturation in the peripheral arteries (SpO2). Thus, it alerts healthcare professionals and allow early detection of hypoxaemia in patients that requires prompt treatment. PO has become an essential tool that widely used in monitoring patients’ clinical conditions in intensive care, perioperative care, emergency care, acute and sub-acute healthcare…

Heartfelt health services can provide an opportunity to the current nurses to take online courses. Medline University is providing some 40,000 online classes every month to the nurses and is well known for inculcating good skills in nurses through online sources. There are about 600,000 users on their platform that can choose out of 250 online registered…

Children are active, curious beings and as they develop and grow they find ways to become more active through recreational activities and sports. Through the years, the intensity and aggression within sports have increased, leading to more recreational and sports related injuries. During the last ten years, emergency department visits for concussions and mild traumatic brain injuries in children and adolescents have increased (Graham et al., 2013). This increase has led to approximately…

Introduction Subclinical or “mild” hypothyroidism (SCH), which is defined as elevated thyroid stimulating hormone (TSH) levels with free thyroxine concentrations within the reference range, is a very common disorder that increases with age and affects up to 18% of the elderly, with a higher prevalence in women compared to men (Baumgartner, 2014). Subclinical hypothyroidism is often diagnosed when thyroid tests are ordered for non-specific symptoms such as depression, weight gain, or fatigue.…

As life stressors continue to increase in everyday society, anxiety levels and generalized anxiety disorders also increase. In the United States, anxiety is one of the most common mental illnesses and impacts over 40 million adults; as one in 10 Americans take antidepressants to treat this disorder, it is essential that individuals have other forms of treatments or modalities besides medications (ADAA, 2015). One modality that continually keeps growing in popularity for mental health is yoga.…

Wound management requires a skill and time in acquiring a fulfilling task. In fact, complicated wounds that are either acute or chronic can be seen in most surgical wards. Through the significance of the literature review, five articles will be explored in identifying their aims, relationship, differences and its relevance to the nursing standard. In Yao et al (2012), their retrospective cohort study was conducted to determine the efficacy of negative pressure wound therapy (NPWT) in comparison…

Mitochondrial Origin and Endosymbiosis Numerous biological processes depend on the generation and recycling of ATP to maintain homeostasis and carry out vital roles within a cell. Without mitochondria, the generation of ATP via oxidative phosphorylation would not occur. Cellular energy metabolism generates the most ATP within the mitochondria and during oxidative phosphorylation. Comparison of the different endosymbiosis theories, evolutionary time frames, mechanisms, and genetic testing can…

Risk Factors for Perpetrators Numerous risk factors are involved. The World Health Organization reports scores of child abusers encompass the same characteristics. These include: having been maltreated themselves as a child, difficulty bonding with their newborn, having unrealistic expectations of their child, misusing alcohol or drugs, being involved in criminal activity, and experiencing financial difficulties (WHO, 2016). A lack of parenting skills may play a part in parents abusing their…

throughout the body to warm themselves when in the cold scenarios, the antibodies destroy the red blood cells. As the cells are destroyed, the part of red blood cells that carries oxygen, hemoglobin, is released into the blood and passed in the urine. (Medline) Characterized by the premature destruction of healthy red blood cells by autoantibodies, Paroxysmal cold hemoglobinuria is a rare type of anemia. Thus, PCH belongs…