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Empyema is a disease causing pus and fluid, from the infected tissue, to collect in a body cavity. The word Empyema is derived from the Greek word empyein, which means pus-producing (suppurate). Empyema is commonly used to refer to pus collection around the lung (pleural cavity), known as Empyema Thoracic. However, similar collection can also…

Argumentative Essay Getting Older A lot of people say that getting older is sad and difficult for old people which is true but at the same time they have lots of opportunities to enjoy this stage of life. That is why there are some advantages and disadvantages that needs to be discussed. On the plus…

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…

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…

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…

“Diverticulitis is a condition in which diverticuli in the colon rupture. The rupture results in infection in the tissues that surround the colon” (MedicineNet, 2010, para. 1). Or at least that’s what MedicineNet. com states that it is. Sometimes what we find on the Internet isn’t as reliable as what we may think. Doing research…

History of UseBayer Corporation, a research-based pharmaceutical company with major businesses in health care and life sciences, sponsored the study. Bayer manufactures Cipro (ciprofloxacin HCl) Tablets, Cipro IV (ciprofloxacin) and Cipro (ciprofloxacin) Oral Suspension. Cipro Tablets and Cipro IV is the leading fluoroquinolone antibiotic worldwide. It has been available to fight serious urinary and respiratory…

HIV and Aids affect more than roughly thirty million people worldwide. Race, sex and age have nothing to do with who can get this disease, however, the race with the highest number of infected people happens to be Caucasian males ages 25-44. About forty-five percent of the 641,000 AIDS cases in the U.S. have been…

The Wound, Ostomy, and Continence Nurses Society (WOCN) has developed a guideline for patients with lower-extremity neuropathic disease (LEND) who are at risk of or already have wounds. The purpose of this guideline is to provide consistent, evidence-based information to improve patient outcomes and stimulate further research on wounds (WOCN, 2012). This study aims to…

    The Tuskegee Syphilis study was conducted from 1932 to 1972. There were 399 participants who had syphilis, and 200 in a control group who were not infected. The participants were primarily poor, illiterate African-American sharecroppers who were not told of their true diagnosis; rather, they were invited to join the study and given free…