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Risk Factors That Impact on an Activity of Daily Living (ADL) For a Stroke Patient Name Institution Risk Factors That Impact on an Activity of Daily Living (ADL) For a Stroke Patient Activities of Daily Living (ADLs) are chores that individuals do on a daily basis such as work, training, vacation and personal activities including: washing clothes, bathing and undressing. When an individual is unable to do these activities, they should be helped to make their lives better. My focus is on impact…

A wise American poet, Roger Zelazny, once said “The power to hurt has evolved in a direct relationship to technological advancement.” It is 2016: advancements are endless, especially when it comes to horror films. Think of the famous 1897 horror film Dracula; the blood that looked like blobs of ketchup, the large amounts of makeup on the actors, it all seems so fake now. With advancements in technology producers are able to create horror films with undeniable visual effects. Better visual…

This can be caused by poor venous flow especially in the lower limbs due to either a deep vein thrombosis. Also, increased venous pressure caused by congestive heart failure ( right ventricle), this also causes a reduction in blood flow to the kidney. This then leads to retention of sodium and water, which then leads to the increase in blood volume…

1. What are the hormones detected in the early stages of pregnancy that we measure for a pregnancy test. How long do they stay elevated? Human chorionic gonadotropin (hCG) or a beta subunit (β-hCG) of hCG are the hormones which are detected in early stages of pregnancy. β-hCG production can begin as early as the day of implantation and can be detected in as early as 7-10 days after conception. “The level of hCG increases until it peaks at about 60-70 days of gestation and then declines until…

Preeclampsia and eclampsia were first documented by Hippocrates around 400 BC. He believed that a headache associated with a seizure in pregnancy was considered bad. This was the first documented case where it was considered to be a complication to a mother’s pregnancy. Early treatment for Preeclampsia and eclampsia was to bring the body’s fluid status back to normal. They tried to achieve this through altered diets, purging and blood-letting. It was not until 1739 that doctors and…

Plastic surgery has become one of the prominent necessities for some of the individuals to transform their physical appearances. Over the foregoing few decades, the popularity of plastic surgery has keep increasing because of the increasing level of awareness for cosmetic surgery. Meanwhile not only cosmetic surgery is popular among the people in the world also the other surgeries include many types of reconstructive surgery, craniofacial surgery, hand surgery, microsurgery, and the treatment…

Both computed tomography and magnetic resonance imaging show a distinctive honey-comb pattern within the lymphatic system that helps differentiate lymphedema from other potential cancer-related causes of edema such as deep vein thrombosis [19]. Lymphangiography was used extensively in the past as an imaging technique, but it is associated with inflammation, scarring, and atrophy of the lymph vessels that can further impair lymph transport capacity. [19]. Lymphoscintigraphy, the method…

BAtrial fibrillation (AF) is the most common arrhythmia encountered in clinical practice, particularly in the aged population. Incidence and prevalence of AF have constantly been on the rise over the last decades and expected to double by 2050, partly because of growing aging population. It has been estimated that AF is affecting 8-9% of people aged 80 years or more and 35% of patients with AF are > 80 years of age(1, 2). Epidemiologic studies estimated AF to be in the rage of 1-2% of the…

fact he actually corrected Einstein and Einstein thanked him for it. Hubble also got a wide variety of awards but there was one he couldn’t get because his field didn’t cover it but they changed it after he died. Hubble died in 1953 from cerebral thrombosis its a blood clot that drains the blood from the…

Lack of proper communication across multidisciplinary teams leads to serious adverse effects and medical errors. Furthermore, it results in the inefficient use of healthcare resources. Research indicates that ineffective communication among healthcare professionals is one of the leading causes of medical errors and patient harm (Mason, Gardner, Outlaw, & O'Grady, 2016). The Joint Commission cited communication as the core component of teamwork and the root cause in nearly 60 percent of sentinel…