Sepsis

Over 200 years ago a medical student by the name of Edward Jenner successfully created the first vaccination ever. In the following years scientists engineered a variety of vaccines following Jenner’s model and by 1970 international vaccine programs, such as the World Health Organization, had created a smallpox vaccine that eliminated the disease worldwide. Since the implementation of vaccines, questions of safety have arose, especially from parents concerned with the health dangers of…

United States develop some sort of superbug and at least 23,000 of them die as a result.” (Maron). According to Professor Matt Cooper, director of the university of Queensland Centre for Superbug Solution, In Australia 170 people die from bacterial sepsis per week.People should know exactly what superbugs are and be aware of the connections and issues that result from them. Superbugs are bacteria that can live in the human body and are able to resist…

to study biological and disease processes, as well as drug metabolism” (“Cruelty Free International”). These devices can accurately represent a human lung, kidney, and gut. Cell cultures have helped scientists have a better understanding of cancer, sepsis, and kidney disease. The second kind of test is called a vitro test which is the testing of human tissue. “In the lab, researchers culture cells or tissues obtained from human volunteers, surgical operations, biopsies, and post-mortem specimens…

Pro-Choice activists declare that it is their women’s rights to do what they want with their body. But one thing they are not seeing is what choice does the child living inside of them have? Even if you do not believe abortion is murder, it still demeans the value of human life. Abortion is simply an inhumane way to discard of one’s responsibilities; it is a deliberate termination and expulsion of a human pregnancy. Many women across the country do not even know how an abortion is processed.…

Subcultures and Social Trends: The Transhumanists – The Singularity and Modern Cyborgs http://s25.postimg.org/s6106wapr/binary_1536617_180.jpg It is estimated that somewhere around the year 2045, a technological singularity will occur- the point at which artificial intelligence outstrips human capacity; only it’s not quite the story as James Cameron portrayed it in his groundbreaking movie *The Terminator*. Rather, it would seem the singularity is closer to The Borg from the Star Trek Next…

THE ECONOMIC IMPACT OF MEDICAL ERRORS IN HEALTH CARE ORGANIZATIONS The issue of an efficient healthcare service delivery by the National Health Service (NHS) and other healthcare providers has consistently occupied the first position amongst other objectives to be maximized by the government, healthcare organization, and the patient, this is due to several factors such reduction in cost of service delivery; increasing competition amongst healthcare service providers; quest to raise life…

age 5. The maternal mortality rate in Haiti is 350 deaths per 100,000 births, where as in the United States it is 12.7 deaths per 100,000 births. This is a major issue because most maternal deaths are preventable as they are often due to eclampsia, sepsis and post-partum hemorrhage. Also, mothers that die in childbirth may be leaving behind other children. Children without mothers are about 10x more likely to die prematurely. There is a myriad of factors that contribute to the high rates…

keep it down to get metabolized. Added to this, Izabella struggles with her status in school as a special education student. Her cognitive disorders are believed to have been a result of her earlier hospitalizations (severe thrombocytopenia, severe sepsis, kidney failure, pneumothorax, and many more problems). Also, she had an oxygen saturation of only 20% due to the three times that she coded and needed CPR, which lead to her brain damage. From this, we have to spend extra on everything from…

MYCOCEPT (Mycophenolate mofetil) is the 2-morholinoethyl ester of mycophenolic acid (MPA). CHEMICAL NAME: 2-morpholin-4-ylethyl (E)-6- (4-hydroxy-6-methoxy-7-methyl-3-oxo-1H-2-benzofuran-5-yl)-4-methylhex-4 enoate. STRUCTURAL FORMULA: Fig: Mycophenolate mofetil MOLECULAR WEIGHT: 433.50g/mol APPEARANCE: Mycophenolate mofetil, is a white to off-white crystalline powder. SOLUBILITY: It is slightly…

The intrauterine device included an “ill-designed removal string [that facilitated] Pelvic Inflammatory Disease (PID) and sepsis (blood poisoning).” The predicament culminated into over 300,000 lawsuits filed against the company that promoted the device. Since then, doctors have innovated the IUD into a more successful mechanism, with minimal conflicts. According to an online…