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Preventing Adverse Effects Decision-making support tools built into web-based EHR systems help prevent adverse events associated with drug allergies and negative drug interactions caused by food or other medications. Expeditious access to drug contraindications, patient history and pharmaceutical information enables providers to make faster decisions when prescribing or administering medication at the point of care. From a broader perspective, pertinent information recorded in a patient EHR can…

Steroids Should Not Be Used By Athletes “I have been using steroids so that I can make myself better. I want to apologize for all of this, and I am sorry for disappointing you all in so many ways." (“Jones Admits to Steroid Use” Gale, Opposing Viewpoints). Marion Jones admitted this before the Athens Olympics in 2000. Imagine being the person who had to admit to the whole world on national television that he/she cheated in a sport. People should not use steroids because they are not good for the…

Jim Rohn once stated, “Take care of your body. It is the only place you have to live.” The human body is made up of trillions of cells that grow, reproduce, and die constantly. Our cells are directed by DNA, which can be damaged at times during replication due to copying errors and environmental agents such as smoke. In most cases, the DNA will eventually be repaired or the cell will die on its own. However, there are cases where the cell with damaged DNA will continue to reproduce and not die…

Critical care is a component of acute care, and it aims to treat patients who require high or constant levels of monitoring and support. These patients are often in life threatening positions, and are cared for in Critical Care Units (CCUs). Patients who enter critical care can be split into two groups, planned and unplanned admissions. A planned admission may be a patient undergoing an intricate elective surgery who requires one to one monitoring peri-operatively. Unplanned admissions can be…

Diethylstilbestrol In 1938, a biochemist named Sir Edward Charles Dodds succeeded in creating the first synthesized estrogen, a feat that scientists had been trying to accomplish for many years. Between 1940 and 1971, a drug called Diethylstilbestrol (known as DES) was prescribed by thousands of physicians to pregnant women to prevent different types of complications associated with pregnancy, including miscarriages and stillbirths (Abboud, 2015). DES is a synthetic form of estrogen that…

1. Identify what type of hospital you have selected and discuss why this is important in relation to their market (patients, community, competition, and government agencies). Opened in 1979, Shady Grove Adventist Hospital operates as part of Adventist Healthcare delivery system that includes hospitals, home health agencies and other health-care services. Adventist HealthCare has its headquartered in Rockville, Maryland. It operates as a faith based, not for profit hospital. It operates as a…

Every living creature has gone through ossification, or in other words bone formation. A different word that is also used interchangeably with ossification is osteogenesis. These words mean the beginning of bone formation (Marieb & Hoenh, 2016, p.183). From the placenta the human body begins to prepare bone tissues for the future of its development. The normal bone goes through a long process of construction. Once a child is born its bones start forming and growing until early adulthood this is…

According to the Chairman of Food Science, Dr. George Borgstrom, in order to produce one pound of beef, 2,500 gallons of water are needed. Since, most people consume meat and meat by-products (dairy, cheese, and eggs), this statement by Dr. Borgstrom reveals that people are not educated about the major effects of animal husbandry. The government constantly suggest that humans should reduce water usage by taking shorter showers, checking faucets and pipes for leaks, and turning off the water…

at the Methodist Hospital who is suffering from a severe stroke, which left him in a coma and permanently paralyzed. Earlier, he was diagnosed with rheumatoid arthritis, angina, diabetes, congestive heart symptoms, gallstones, and cancer of the prostate. Shortly after receiving this news, Elmer fell into the stroke, and was admitted into the Methodist Hospital. Although Dr. James A. Duncan stated that Elmer Beard’s visit would be short, his visit to the hospital stretched from 36 hours to…

over a longer period. One health issue is that obesity in children can progress to their adulthood and pose more problems like osteoarthritis, cancers, diabetes, and heart disease. The cancers associated with obesity include cancers of the cervix, prostate, ovary, thyroid, gall, blood, pancreas, esophagus, endometrium, kidney, colon and breast among many others. Such health concerns especially for children and their adulthood in future are a sign that obesity should be dealt with in children as…