Communicable Diseases Communicable diseases spread from one person to another or from an animal to a person. The spread often happens via airborne viruses or bacteria, but also through blood or other bodily fluid. The terms infectious and contagious are also used to describe communicable disease. Examples: 1. HIV/AIDS AIDS (Acquired immune deficiency syndrome or acquired immunodeficiency syndrome) is a disease caused by a virus called HIV (Human Immunodeficiency Virus). The illness alters
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Chapter 1 Nursing Images throughout History 1) The angle of mercy 2) The handmaiden 3) The battle-ax 4) The naughty nurse 5) The military image A. Nurses on the battlefield * Hospitalers – specialized soldiers who at the end of battle returned to the outposts to care for the sick and injured * Army nursing service – organize nurses and hospitals and coordinate supplies for the soldiers during the Civil War * Clara Barton a.
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Memorandum on Transplantable Organs DATE: July 20, 2014 TO: Broad Member of ACB Hospital FROM: Mrs. Carolyn Smith SUBJECT: Transplantable Heart Organ ===================================================================== While I am the Chief Surgeon at ACB hospital occasionally moral decisions necessitate those of us to consider undeniable considerations in contradiction of ‘others, such as the good of a unique person versus the good of’(Internet , 2013) numerous, a heart has become accessible
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hormones-regulatory chemicals (proteins or lipids) secreted into the blood stream and affects target cells. * Target Cells: -A variety of cells with a specific receptor for a hormone that initiates or inhibits selective cell activities. * Response Time: LONGER * Duration of Response: LONGER LASTING (mins to days and weeks) 17.2 -Endocrine Cells: 1. Derived from epithelium with connective tissue framework 2. Have extensive blood supply to facilitate rapid uptake of hormones 3. Two
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Carissa Hughes A&P 2 Unit 5. Case Study 1. Case Studs: Cari’s Story A. How could an infection in Cari’s nasal passages and pharynx spread into her sinuses? The infection in Cari’s nasal passages and pharynx was able to spread into her sinuses due to the sinuses being a drainage area for the nasal passages. B. What is the cough reflex? Describe the process that Cari’s respiratory system is using to clear her lungs by coughing. The cough reflex is used to clear sputum and irritants that
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Radiation Effects at the Tissue and Organ Level * Response to irradiation- measures the radiosensitivity of tissue or organ * Loss of moderate number of cells- does not affect function of organs * Loss of large number of cells- display clinical result * Severity of change depends on dose and thus amount of cell loss * Repairable damage- moderate dose to localized area * Death from damage to most sensitive system- comparable dose to whole organism Short- Term
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Chapter 33: Animal Nutrition * Nutrition: food is taken in, taken apart, and taken up * Herbivores (plants or algae) vs. Carnivores (other animals) vs. Omnivores (All) * Most animals are opportunistic feeders – eat outside their standard diet when their usual foods aren’t available * Animals must eat * But, to survive and reproduce balance their consumption, storage, and use of food 33.1: AN ANIMAL’S DIET MUST SUPPLY CHEMICAL ENERGY, ORGANIC MOLECULES, AND ESSENIAL
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and coordinate the body functions (coordination of nervous). Will be responsible for sensory input, integration of data and motor output. 2. Cardio vascular system (CVS): is composed of heart, blood, and blood vessels wish includes arteries, veins and capillaries. It role is to allow flow of blood and nutrients throughout the human body, defend the body, thermoregulation 3. Respiratory system (RS): is composed of nose, lungs, trachea, alveolar, bronchi, bronchioles, sacs, and alveoli. It
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is also a necessary to maintain a healthy body and mind. By doing the right exercises every day you will be making your heart stronger and bigger. You will also be making your blood vessels more elastic which will help the blood flow more easily through the body which will lower blood pressure. Exercise will also improve blood flow to the brain which will allow the brain to work more efficiently. Sometime when we don’t consistently do something it seems more difficult to do. For example if a kid
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veins will fill to the anterior border of the sternocleidomastoid muscle. With the patient sitting at a 45 degree angle venous distention normally should not extend higher than 2cm above the sternal angle. Altered patient: decreased blood volume (low cvp) increased blood volume, heart failure, vasoconstriction (high cvp) • Neuromuscular irritability-healthy adult: assess for increase or decrease neuromuscular activity = negative response. Altered patient: patients with hypocalcaemia or hypomagnesaemia
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