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    significant cost to the economy. Therefore, it is imperative to raise awareness and prepare clinicians with the knowledge and guidance to embark on the global movement towards improving quality of care and outcomes for patients with severe sepsis and septic shock. Defining Sepsis: In 1991, The Society of Critical Care Medicine and The American College of Chest Physicians held a meeting with the aim of establishing distinct…

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    significant cost to the economy. Therefore, it is imperative to raise awareness and prepare clinicians with the knowledge and guidance to embark on the global movement towards improving quality of care and outcomes for patients with severe sepsis and septic shock. Defining Sepsis: In 1991, The Society of Critical Care Medicine and The American College of Chest Physicians held a meeting with the aim of establishing distinct definitions regarding sepsis and its associated sequelae. Subsequently,…

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    Sepsis: A Case Study

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    Sepsis is the leading cause of death for hospitalized patients. It is estimated, that 1.6 million hospitalized patients are treated for sepsis annually. Sepsis is the leading cause of hospital mortality, and has an associated cost of 400 billion dollars per year in the United States (Lopez-Bushnell, Demaray, & Jaco, 2014, p.9). Sepsis is characterized as an overwhelming infection in the body that disrupts homeostasis by causing profound inflammation and a cascade of symptoms that leads to…

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    Evaluate Milgram's Theory

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    Milgram (1974) used this perspective to explain the behaviour expelled by the participants when continuing to administer increasingly severe shocks, even after the ‘learners’ protesting and once the experimenter had exclaimed that they would take responsibility, allowing the ‘teacher’ to take an agentic shift from autonomy (Reicher & Haslam, 2012). Nissani (1990), suggests that the human cognitive…

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    body as she performs like a pro. The way her body was moving with the music was good, she had some upper body strength the way she was climbing that pole like her life was in danger. “You know she started here last month.” Sky tells me and I’m beyond shock. “The trick is to have fun and let go of yourself and become someone you always wanted to be.” I glance over at the crowd to see Nino right in front of the stage. I gasp. “What’s…

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    Sepsis: A Case Study

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    will affect any age or gender. It is cunning, quick to manifest itself, and life-threatening, it is septic shock. Sepsis is a crafty syndrome that most people may not even realize they have until a family member realizes they are acting different and takes them to the emergency department. First it starts with an infection, then early sepsis, which if not treated it turns into septic shock. Sepsis is defined by the Surviving Sepsis Campaign as a “life-threatening organ dysfunction caused by a…

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    Peroxynitrite Essay

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    In the first 3 types, perfusion is changed as a consequence of cardiac output decrease, whereas distributive types of shock are related to a primary dysfunction of the resistive component of the cardiovascular system. In vasoplegia, vascular tone is reduced and there is a noticeably depressed constrictive response of arterioles to vasoconstrictors, and is a main cause is septic shock (Levy et al., 2010). Sepsis-induced vasoplegia is a component of a generalized circulatory dysfunction that…

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    activation process relies on memory cues, or mental “tags,” created most effectively through emotional experience. For this reason, the power of advertising lies in the premeditated association of symbols with emotion, which serves to reflect societal values and link them to previously unrelated products. The efficacy of an advertisement is contingent upon the emotion it evokes that is then, in turn, linked with the product. These sentiments reflect both inherent and elicited human desires for…

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    Mental Capacity Case Study

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    Septic Shock Affecting Mental Capacity The assignment is to support an insight into a safeguarding issue where the patient is self-neglecting due to the lack of circumstantial mental capacity to take a decision. I have chosen the Gibbs’ reflective cycle (Oxford Brookes University, 2016) to comprehend and reflect the scenario. The Gibbs’ reflective cycle will enable to follow step by step; focusing on the description of the issue, how I felt about it, initial evaluation and the analysis of the…

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    Prosthetics

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    These limbs are made with springs, shock absorbers, some having a graphite foot or dynamic foot, and a force sensor. Most runners in the Paralympics have the hook limbs, that curve up like a hook for the nice rotation when running. According to the dispute over prosthetics, the report on the limbs was that they use 25% less energy than natural legs. This means that the springs and shock absorbers take the pressure away from the upper legs. Another report that…

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