Essays on Health Page 53

Your patient is a 75 year old male admitted through the Emergency Room w/ cough, SOB and fever, Chest x-ray revealed left lower lobe pneumonia. Past Medical History: Congestive Heart Failure (CHF), Chronic Obstructive Pulmonary Disease (COPD), hypertension, Diabetes Mellitus –Type 2, Gout, chronic renal insufficiency. Allergies: PCN Current medications: Avandia (rosiglitazone) 2mg BID Glucophage…

Patrick Patrick Dismuke was a young African American boy, at the age of fifteen when the story starts, and a regular patient at Hermann Hospital. Patrick was born with a severe case of Hirschsprung’s disease, a disorder of the digestive tract, and was unable to digest his food. Throughout Patrick’s life, he spent more days…

Rakesh Sharma has lived with his family in Fremont for 17 years, and currently serves on the Planning Commission. Rakesh is a product of public education with doctorate degree in Clinical Biochemistry from Jawaharlal Nehru Medical College. In 1977, Rakesh and his wife, Ranjana (a Family Physician) left for Japan where he worked at the…

Introduction Sensitivity analysis is used to determine how “sensitive” a model is to changes in the value of the parameters of the model and to changes in the structure of the model. In this paper, we focus on parameter sensitivity. Parameter sensitivity is usually performed as a series of tests in which the modeler sets…

Abstract While everyone talks about the role and importance of health care continuum, its essence and definition are being changed and shaped under a variety of social, economic, medical, technological, and cultural factors. Statistically, more than 1.5 million Americans use the benefits of home-based care daily (Fox & Raphael, 1997). On the one hand, home-based…

Your next patient is a 17 year old high school student. He is an avid video game player. After a complete history and physical exam, you find him to be healthy with a IBM of 24. 5. A. Even though he is in the upper limits of a IBM range, the patient is healthy but…

INTRODUCTION In every nurse’s career, thenurse is faced with many legal or ethical dilemmas. One of the professionalcompetencies for nursing states that nurses should ” integrate knowledge ofethical and legal aspects of health care and professional values into nursingpractice”. It is important to know what types of dilemmas nurses may faceduring their careers and how…

Such a workflow perspective that is based on the continuity of care model provides a framework required to Identify and support an Interconnected trajectory of care events affecting handcuff communication. To this end, we propose a new methodology, referred to as the clinician-centered approach that allows us to investigate and represent the entire clinician workflow…

Health Promotion in the Community It is a fast-paced life, living in New York City; you can sometimes neglect different aspects of your health and well-being. I took “My Health Survey” on the New York City Department of Health website, which I found interesting. In “My Health Survey,” my results did not reveal any major…

Malaria parasites have been with us since the beginning of time, andfossils of mosquitoes up to thirty million years old show that malarias vectorhas existed for just as long. The parasites causing malaria are highly specific,with man as the only host and mosquitoes as the only vector. Every year,300,000,000 people are affected by malaria, and…