Stethoscope

Irritable bowel syndrome (IBS) is a communal disorder that disturbs the large intestine in 5-20% of adults. With this gastrointestinal disorder, it would commonly give a person abdominal pain, bloating, cramps, constipation, diarrhea, and gas. Irritable bowel syndrome is classified into four different categories which are IBS with constipation (IBS-C), IBS with diarrhea (IBS-D), mixes IBS (IBS-M), and un-subtype IBS (IBS-U) (Bethesda, 2013). There are patients that have reported discontinuous…

offered as an app for iPhone and android. There are many ways to navigate the Bio Digital Human. One, the user can click on the anatomy explorer, which is located on the left, and click on body systems on or off. The second way is to click on the stethoscope mode where the user can discover visualizations for condition and treatments. Finally, there is the community icon where the user can browse the models that people on the Bio Digital website have saved and…

The first 12 hours of a neonates life is the most critical time in which hypothermia can set in. For 9 months the child is in a warm amniotic sac where coldness is never felt. Once the neonate experiences extrauterine life, the neonate is now at risk for cold stress (Durham, 2014, p. 377). There are four different ways in which a neonate can loose heat; these four are radiation, convection, conduction, and evaporation. Studies have shown that the nurses procedures have a major effect on heat…

The Industrial Revolution is the development of industries on a large scale, and it is filled with factory owners and workers. This revolution had started in the 1800s in Europe and the United States. This revolution was created because they wanted to transform economies and innovations worldwide. “During the early Industrial revolution, Britain stood alone as the world’s industrial giant” (World History- pg. 660). Britain then tried to enforce strict rules that do not let people send their own…

It was my last day of another exciting summer camp season. I stood in the middle of the playground and scanned the room to ensure that all my campers were being safe and playing fair with one another. I began to relax my guard, feeling confident that all was well. At that same moment I heard a piercing outcry of my name. I quickly turned my shift in the direction of the scream and noticed a significant amount of blood running down one of my camper’s face. As I rushed towards her aid, she…

Auscultation using a stethoscope for abnormal sounds, monitoring the blood pressure and the heart rate are the initial simple exam techniques that provide the doctor with clues about the health of the heart. The basic electrocardiogram (also known as EKG or ECG), an electrical…

was a skill that I was not entirely confident in, but I knew it was crucial and something I needed to do; it was essential to put my patient first. I felt for my resident’s brachial pulse, placed the cuff on his upper arm, put the diaphragm of my stethoscope where I felt the pulse, and began squeezing the pump. When I had finished taking his blood pressure, it was very low. I took the blood pressure again, and the second time was just a low as the first. The patient was on an antihypertensive…

Incorrect nasogastric tube placement is becoming a major problem in healthcare. This is evident due to about 1.9% of feeding tubes are misplaced (Sparks et al, 2011) and commonly leads to pneumothorax in one in five people and death in one in thirty-nine. (Taylor, 2014). These errors directly affect the patient causing him or her to accrue a larger bill and longer hospital stay. Neither of which is good. There are several factors that attribute to these errors such as old practices of…

if the client is thinking that a doctor in the U.S. is going to do more harm than good, then the client might be feeling anxious or scared and their behavior might be to leave before treatment, or to pull away when the doctor tries to place the stethoscope on their chest. If the Hmong people think that American doctors eat their vital organs and a Hmong patient is told they need surgery, they may feel terrified and their behavior may be to run out of the hospital shortly after they are told.…

their eyes. ‘If you have any questions Ms Gayde, please ask his nurse, or they can page me.’ The specialist slips from the room with the conscientious trainee in tow. She nods at the right time as he whispers in academic tones and dangles the stethoscope around his…