another human was in 1924. The main area that is affected with this plague is the lungs. It is caused when the bacterium, yersinia pestis spreads around the lungs. The symptoms include; coughing, pains within your chest, having a fever, vomiting, nausea, feeling cold (chills), diarrhoea and having less oxygen coming into your lungs. This type of plague is spread by the air, ie.; breathing, coughing and can spread to another person if they are within a six foot radius. It can also become present…
Head injuries are becoming increasingly talked-about, primarily due to concussions and their link to NFL players, but it is a serious injury that deserves attention. A head injury is any trauma, mild or serious, to the scalp, skull, or brain. A head injury can either be closed or open. A closed head injury is a hard blow to the head from an object, but the strike did not break the skull. An open head injury means a hit with an object that broke the skull and entered the brain. Head injuries…
experience a heart attack. You are also 62% higher to have a stroke and 73% higher to have angina. Angina is chest pain caused by reduced blood flow to the heart muscle. The symptoms of migraines could include things like eye pain, sensitivity to light, nausea, vomiting and severe pain IQ which could be on one side of the head. This pain on the side of your hide could be described as a pounding sensation. However, some people may only experience a few of these symptoms or possibly just the…
1. The purpose of staging A.S is so that he knows the extent of how much the cancer has spread. 2. Hodgkins normally starts in the lymph nodes and usually moves to another set of lymph nodes. It can go to nearby organs. Stage one signifies that it is found in only one area either one lymph node or organ. 3. The difference between Hodgkins disease and non-Hodgkin lymphoma is that there is a presence of giant cells called Reed- Sternberg cells, which are crippled germinal center B cells. 4. The…
Swimming is fun for both parents and children. However, there are things that you will have to do in order to keep your kids safe while swimming. Below is a list of safety tips for parents: Supervise Your Children At All Times Children who are between the ages of one and four are at the greatest risk of drowning. That is why it is important to supervise children at all times while your child is in the water. Children who are under the age of five should be within arm's reach of an adult at all…
at risk for: CX Pouch stretching, Band erosion, Breakdown of staple lines, Leakage of stomach contents into the abdomen, and Nutritional deficiencies causing health problems. Gastric bypass surgery also may cause dumping syndrome symptoms include nausea, weakness, sweating, faintness, may cause diarrhea after eating, gallstones, anemia, osteoporosis and metabolic bone disease. The more extensive the gastric bypass surgery, the greater the risk for complications and nutritional deficiencies.…
The information provide by my client for this assessment of being diagnosed with Kidney Disease is viewed by using the Biopsychosocial Model. The biopsychosocial model consists of the biological, psychological, and social factors of an individual. In this case, the focus of the biopsychosocial model is my client, Richard and his health condition: Kidney Disease. The biological factors are based on Richard’s Kidney Disease, and the symptoms he experience. At first, when Richard was young, he was…
the food leaves the stomach and goes to the small intestine. Gastric emptying studies are used for checking patients who are experiencing signs of slow and, less commonly, rapid emptying of the stomach. Some signs to watch for are low energy levels, nausea, and heartburn. During a gastric emptying study, the patient eats a meal where the food in the meal and the drink in the meal are combined with a little radioactive material. Then a scanner is put over the person’s stomach to watch the…
for their first time, education around pain medication can inform the patients that most analgesics and opioids have well-known interventions and this may encourage safe administration of pain medications. These interventions include antiemetics to nausea, laxatives to constipation or alternative therapies to…
Radiation Therapy What is Radiation Therapy? Radiation therapy is one of the most common, innovative and successful forms of cancer treatments of the modern world. It can successfully treat and cure approximately 50 unique forms of cancer1, utilizing alpha, beta and gamma radiation to destroy or damage cancer cells2. This helps prevent the rapid multiplication of the destructive cells, with minimal impact upon the somatic cells surrounding the cancerous area, and treats both primary, and…