Severe acute respiratory syndrome

Introduction Unit managers are men or woman who manage and lead in a nursing unit. Unit managers have many responsibilities of which scheduling, prevention of absenteeism as well as maintaining a cross infection free environment is just a mere few of them. In this assignment I will learn in detail about the above mentioned topics. PART A Guidelines used to ensure fair scheduling of nursing staff Scheduling Scheduling can be defined as the way in which shifts and divisions of shifts are…

flu symptoms are much less severe. The availble treatments for inluenza viruses: Firstly,Rest and sleep until the patient become fully recovered from the illness. Secondly, avoid dehydration by drinking lots of fluid…

Nowadays, a healthy lifestyle is presumably popular among the society. There are many things lead to healthy lifestyle such as foods, exercises, hereditary diseases, etc. Healthy lifestyle affects daily activities. Therefore, even without us realizing, it affects ours too. There are many ways society affects our lifestyle. For example, witnessing our friends who are on diet may attract us to follow them too, especially for women. Or perhaps, we have developed some habits to live healthy life…

diagnostic criteria are met. In order to meet systemic inflammatory response syndrome (SIRS), two of the four are needing: fever (100.4°F) or low temperature (96.8°F), tachycardia (>90), respiratory rate greater than 20, or a PaCO2 < 32 mm Hg, a white blood cell count > 12,000/mm>3 or < 4,000/mm>3, or > 10% bands. The definition of sepsis is two out of the preceding four criteria, plus a present or suspected source of infection. Severe sepsis is diagnosed when the…

The Chinese pangolins (Manis pentadactyla) are mostly found in Taiwan and southern China in a wide range of habitats such as limestone forests, bamboo forests, broad-leaf and coniferous forests, grasslands and agricultural fields (Chao Jung-Tai 1989, Gurung 1996). It is one of eight species of pangolin, and they are all on the decline. The IUCN reports that the number of Chinese pangolins has declined rapidly over the past fifteen years, and this species is critically endangered nowadays due to…

opinion and why I believe this shouldn’t be allowed. To start, I would like to point out exactly what influenza is and why it is dangerous. The official definition of influenza: An acute contagious viral infection, commonly occurring in epidemics or pandemics, and characterized by inflammation of the respiratory tract and by the sudden…

SARS as a disease that was spreading fast through the contact of the mucous membrane, the Public health of Ontario must had to face many challenges, because not had preparation and a plan to respond to the outbreak immediately, by the overcrowding of the health facility, inadequate controls to prevent transmission of the disease, the lack of laboratories to carry out an effective investigation about the disease and its causes to allowing avoid major risks. (Arnold, 2009) An emergency department…

Spillover is not just a regular book about diseases. In this book, the author, David Quammen, dialogues about a multitude of zoonotic diseases, which are pathogens that can be transmitted from an animal into a human. There are eleven diseases that the author primarily discusses: Hendra, Ebola, Malaria, SARS, Q-fever, Psittacosis, Lyme disease, Herpes B, Nipah and HIV/AIDS. All of these are viruses, with the exceptions of Q-fever, Psittacosis and Lyme disease, which are bacterium. All zoonotic…

Capecitabine, an oral 5-fluorouracil (5-FU) analogue, is a commonly used chemotherapeutic agent (antimetabolite) of the pyrimidine analogue family. It is a basic cytostatic agent used in therapy of solid gastrointestinal cancers (as adjuvant therapy as well as in treatment of metastatic disease); besides, it is also widely used in therapy of metastatic breast cancer. Myocardial infarction is a rare adverse effect related to capecitabine therapy. We present case report of a female patient with no…

Citizen Being a citizen to me means the goals, hopes, and the responsibilities of those that live in a particular city, state, or nation. A citizen upholds the law of where one lives. One has rights to live and prosper, where one feels at home, and a sense of belonging. This is not the legal definition of a citizen but what being a citizen means to me. My definition and the textbook definition are quite different in many aspects. The definition of citizen according to Merriam-Webster is a…