Essays on Medicine Page 32

Encyclopedia defines hypnosis as,”altered state of consciousness andheightened responsiveness to suggestion; it may be induced by normal personsby a variety of methods and has been used occasionally in medical and psychiatrictreatment. Most frequently brought about through actions of an operator, or”hypnotist”, who engages the attention of a subject and assigns certain tasksto him or her…

Arterial line monitoring is the insertion of a specialized cannula to obtain accurate and reliable readings of the blood pressure, constantly (for every heart beat).  It is very useful for patients admitted to the trauma-care centers, operating theaters or intensive care units to monitor the systolic, diastolic and mean blood pressure, to determine the immediate…

Abstract Background: fatigue is a concept that has different meanings in different areas and especially in nursing. By understanding of this concept, the nurses can manage their patients with fatigue and plan appropriate care for patients that will lead to effective nursing interventions and the desirable outcomes. Purpose: to clarify and analyze the concept fatigue…

Medical Office Management focuses on business factors that affects a medical office. How it affects the objectives and how to achieve them. The objective goals would be to have more clients to increase more revenue. Current Issues in Health Economics analyzes the effects on the national health status. The issues of healthcare and how the…

An insulin pump is a tiny and external device that shows result of small functioning insulin in about 24 hours per day. In a lot of systems, insulin pump is fixed with a thin plastic based tube that consists of a soft plastic needle or in other words “cannula” that is placed underneath the skin…

History, Lab Data The 39 year old white male came into the University Hospital on February 25, 1971.  He stated that he was fine up until three months ago until he had a dull achy pain across his chest.  Four weeks later, he had a sharp pain on his left side, despite it previously improving…

Dr. Scott Augustine, an anesthesiologist from Minnesota, founded Augustine Medical, Inc. in 1987 with the goal of developing and marketing products for hospital operating rooms and recovery rooms. One area of focus for the company is finding solutions for postoperative hypothermia, a condition that affects a large percentage of recovery room patients (60-80%). Hypothermia occurs…

In order to illustrate the predominance of medical explanations, a definition of the medicalisation thesis will be given and illustrated by the case of the treatment of terminally ill patients. The medicalisation of death and dying will be highlighted by a review of sociological literature from both feminist and non-feminist perspectives. The limits of medicalisation…

Introduction Many patients seek to health care to treat their medical problems and they expect to receive high quality of care. Unfortunately, for some patient, instead of receiving high quality of cares, they receive cares that harm them actually or are potentially harmful to them. As in the story of Lewis Blackman, a series of…

This brooding essay is based on my experience as a wellness attention helper in the operative theater working as a circulating nurse for a vascular entree list. It will besides foreground the of import facet of communicating within the theater practicians when working with patients who are under local or general anesthetic. I will research…