Stethoscope

New York Boxing Tournament. My supervisors, Dr. Beatty and Dr. King, instructed me to record a boxer 's heart rate, blood pressure, and facilitate the boxer when the doctors were ready to give a check-up before their fight. The cold touch of the stethoscope on a well-structured body pumped with adrenaline was an all too familiar sight for me, since I too am a boxer. Because of my experience, I knew how to instruct each boxer to stay in an orderly line despite their anxiety for their upcoming…

2.1. The left ventricle and interventricular septum The heart has two inferior chambers, called the right and left ventricles, respectively. These chambers are the “pumps” that expel blood into the blood vessels and keeps it flowing through the body (Rizzo, 2016). The left ventricle is a cavity that has thick muscular walls that contains the papillary muscles as well as the chordae tendinae that attaches the atrio-ventricular valve leaflets to the papillary muscles (Leeson, Augustine,…

be gone on her errands, I picked the lock on her door, slipped on vinyl gloves and snooped. Not much in the living area. A utilitarian sofa. No phone to tap. No radio. No television. A black leather bag sat by at the front door, filled with her stethoscope and medical paraphernalia. A guitar lounged against the wall. I opened the case and groaned with lust. A Ramirez. As good as the Herman Hauser ruined when I killed Chabat. I ran my fingers over the strings. Badly out of tune, the guitar hadn’t…

Re-education in nursing techniques can improve PPE compliance In Texas, October of 2014 an outbreak of the Ebola virus created a nationwide scare among healthcare workers (Chevalier et al., 2014). The virus infected two nurses in Texas and created a media frenzy with a spotlight on healthcare workers use of personal protective equipment or PPE’s (Beam et al. 2015). Nurses are typically the front line of defense in treatment of patients regardless of potentially deadly infections and illness.…

Humans live life by fulfilling goals, plans, or finding a purpose no matter how small or grand it may be as a way of giving their life some meaning. However, this idea is challenged and placed to the test in Franz Kafka’s short story, “A Crossbreed”, and in Rosario Ferre narrative, “The Youngest Doll” when human like beings are dehumanized and treated as objects of possessions under the care of men. In , “A Crossbreed,” Kafka introduces a sheep-cat hybrid who resembles human beings as it appears…

My Journey to the Nursing Field I was born and raised in Lima, Peru. I come from a humble and very poor family. Ever since I was little, I was always intrigued by the medical field. There was something about the white coats, stethoscopes and the kindness the healthcare professionals always offered that grabbed my attention. I often saw myself playing pretend or a nurse with my dolls. I was always the first one to attend for anyone in need or medical care. I just loved to put band aids on…

were inside. I led the way clearing the store with my ax. In the storeroom was a zed that looked like he had been living there before turning. Bashing them is harder when there’s no room for maneuver but he went down finally. Yuri started working on the big door to the loading ramp and the others followed me back inside. The shopping crew grabbed carts and I started pointing. Somewhere along the line we quit looking at sizes and just started grabbing all the jeans, all the shirts and all…

Introduction Coronary Heart disease is the expression that defines the blocked or interrupted of the heart's blood supply by a build-up of fatty substances in the coronary arteries. Over time, the walls of the arteries are stuffed with fatty deposits, which is called atherosclerosis and the fatty deposits are called atheroma (BBC 2013). Coronary Heart Disease (CHD) is a major killer in the UK as well as worldwide. It’s the cause of more than 73,000 deaths in the UK. Each year around 1 in 10…

laboratory. To measure air composition for O2 and CO2 levels (FiO2/FiCO2) a Quantek Instruments Model 902D O2/CO2 Headspace Analyzer was used. Additionally, a Choice Med MD300 C2 pulse oximeter was used to measure SaO2, a 3M Litman Classic II SE stethoscope in combination with a Mabis Aneroid sphygmomanometer were used to collect the subjects’ BP and a Polar FT1 heart rate monitor and telemetry strap combination were used to collect HR…

IT seems incredibly obvious to write a novel about two of humanities core afflictions. Food and sex. The drive towards both are integral to human survival. Most wars are raged over them. Eating a crumpet, syrup dripping down your wrist. You ask me, What is this? I respond. That is what is keeping you alive. “Has it ever occurred to you that food is intensely social? There is so much to think about before you eat. The origins of food…the social politics of its production.” The social…