The Tubes

My friends and I consider ourselves to be very spontaneous and adventurous. It was one cold week in February of 2016, when a group of about 6 of my friends (including me) all decided that we wanted to go to Vermont for the weekend to ski and snow tube. Considering this would be my first trip with no parental guidance at all, I was apprehensive about asking my mom. On the way to drop me off after school one day, my best friend Tony told me to tell her that he was going too so then she’d say yes…

In these camps “the death rates were so high, from malnutrition, typhus and exhaustion that the disposal of corpses became a serious problem.” (THE CAMPS) The treatment in transporting and caring for the victims is probably one of the main factors in the dehumanization of people during Holocaust. The victims were treated inferior simply because of their nationality. The Nazi’s made it a point to degrade these people in every way possible by taking away their rights and free will.…

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…

Restriction Mapping of Plasmid DNA Preparing 5 Eppendorf Tubes All tubes contain 1 μL of the plasmid DNA, and 2 μL of 10X buffer #2. Tube 1 is the control so there is no enzyme added only 17 μL DI water. For tube 2 the DNA is mixed with 0.5 μL of BamHI and 16.5 μL of DI water, to see total number of base pairs from the linear DNA. In tube 3 DNA is digested with 2 restriction enzymes, which can give the relative distance between the two enzymes. To be more specific, 0.5 μL of Bam HI and EcoRI…

1. Introduction Steel and Tube is a New Zealand owned company with over 60 years of trading history. Steel and Tube are the leading suppliers of steel product and steel services of New Zealand. The company’s distribution and service network is spread in 40 locations in all over New Zealand and is listed among the top 50 companies on the New Zealand Stock Exchange in terms of market capitalisation. Steel and Tube contributes to New Zealand’s economy in all sectors. The supplies range from…

Enteral tube-feeding is a nutritional support method administered to a patient when his or her gastrointestinal tract is operational but unable or reluctant to take enough oral diet. However, this method is cost-effective, but it’s not as simple as it appears. Enteral tube-feeding encounters a number of complications that occur in the process, which ranges from metabolic, gastrointestinal and mechanical problems. The gastrointestinal complications may include nausea, vomiting, diarrhea,…

This week in clinical, I was assigned a patient with a nasogastric tube. A NG tube is very painful for the patient if it is slightly moved, so I was a little nervous taking care of this patient. I walked into to the room and met with the patient and his wife. I began to ask him questions about his past medical history, his medications, and current state of being. I then took vital signs. After finishing vital signs, I realized that his pulse was 54 bmp, which is very low. So, I discussed this…

The x ray beam from an x ray is modified to suit the needs The x-ray beam given off an x-ray tube may be changed to suit the needs of the use by changing the following: Tube Voltage (kVp): The alteration of tube voltage affects both quality & intensity. It affects quality because of the maximum photon energy that is determined by the tube voltage. Thus, the higher the tube voltage,…

NTD or neural tube defect is a congenital malformation resulting due to the failure of the neural tube to close during embryonic development. NTD is caused because of disturbance in the one carbon metabolism pathway. Deficiency of nutritional factors like folate, Vit B2,B6,B12 , involved in one carbon metabolism. Many loci on genes which have been associated with one Carbon metabolism has been identified and associated with risk on NTD. B vitamins and other dietary factors interact with one…

intubation but often have difficultly during advancing the nasotracheal tube into the trachea, differences in pediatric airway structure relative to adults are thought to be the reason of this problem. The modified pediatric Magill forceps (modified by Farrukh and his colleagues) added anteroposterior firm grasping of the nasotracheal tube enables us for elevation and downward rotation of the nasotracheal tube which makes the tube in line with the axis of the trachea facilitating its passage…