Child and growth development theories influence the way we assess paediatric patients and helps to improve communication between practitioner and patient using age appropriate concepts. Understanding cognitive development theories will benefit nurses, providing competent paediatric care in all medical situations. A ten-year-old girl has presented to the emergency department with suspected ruptured appendix. Presentation of acute appendicitis is the most common cause of emergency abdominal surgery
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group to work with. Substance abusers as a sub-group are a bit more intensified simply because they are typically mentally ill as well as struggling to manage their addiction. The state of Massachusetts, in particular, there is a growing epidemic of opioid addiction and overdose deaths; consequently, this crisis requires taking action in each of the following four key areas: Prevention, Intervention, Treatment, and Recovery Support (Executive Office of Health and Human Services, 2015). Drug addiction
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pamphlet “Identifying Neonatal Abstinence Syndrome (NAS) and Treatment Guidelines” to inform the general population about NAS. The pamphlet listed some of the most common drugs including barbiturates, cocaine, heroin, marijuana, methamphetamine, opioids, sedatives, and selective serotonin reuptake inhibitors (SSRIs). The pamphlet also discussed the general symptoms of NAS and it broke them down into three categories. The first category was neurological symptoms which included irritability, increased
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such as medical treatment and research. As noted below, its major effects included updating the Paris Convention of 13 July 1931 to include the vast number of synthetic opioids invented in the intervening thirty years and a mechanism for more easily including new ones. From 1931 to 1961, most of the families of synthetic opioids had been developed, including drugs in whatever way related to methadone, pethidine, morphinans and dextromoramide and related drugs; research on fentanyls and piritramide
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Opioid addiction is on a steady increase not only in adults but youths also. In 2013, the National survey on drug use and health estimated that with in the past year 24.6 million people ages 12 and older (9.4% of population) live with substance abuse. 46 Americans die every day from an opioid drug overdose that’s almost 2 deaths per hour, 17,000 annually. In 2014, drug overdose was the leading cause of death. In 2012, killing more than motor vehicle accidents. With these statistics I do feel
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the membrane preparation region of the brain and it also functions as a neurotransmitter. Once activated, the receptor releases methionine-enkephalin and antinociception (4). Methionine-enkephaline is commonly referred to as opioid growth factor and is a naturally occurring opioid with a short duration of pain relief (6). According to Merriam-Webster dictionary, antinociception is defined as being the action of blocking the detection of painful stimuli. It has been found that animals, such as rats and
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22 Ramamoorthy KG et al./Journal of Acupuncture and Herbs 1 (2015)22-31 Acupuncture for Prophylaxis of Intrathecal Morphine Induced Itch in Elective Caesarean Delivery: A Randomized Controlled Double Blind Study Karthik Ganesh Ramamoorthy FCARCSIa*, Mohammed Ibrahim MRCSb, Nasir Z. Ahmad FRCS, MMScc, Kevin Bailey FFARCSIb, Paul O’ Connor. FFARCSIb a. Department of Anaesthesia, Fortis Malar Hospital, Chennai, India b. Department of Anaesthesia, Letterkenny General Hospital, Letterkenny
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Justin Tonter Professor Smith English 1A 8 July 2014 Why We Should Legalize Cannabis While more and more people are supporting the legalization of cannabis, there are still many who are on the fence about the issue. Even though I do not smoke marijuana, I am all for legalization as I believe the positives that come from it outweigh the negatives by a great deal. So far we have seen two states legalize marijuana for recreational use, the two being Colorado and Washington, and the positive
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Inroduction to biochemistry 03 December 2012 MARINOL Tetrahydrocannabinol, aka THC, aka delta-9-tetrahydrocannabinol This drug was not manufactured to cure anything, “It makes very ill people feel better”. Most people who suffer from disease also from the accumulation of the experience of suffering. Cannabis seems to be a treatment mostly for symptomatic relief from many neurological functions including pain. It is not usually curative. Since pain accompanies most disease processes at
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Learning Experience Christie Taylor-Huisman HUM/114 November 28, 2014 McCormick Marijuana: Why It Should Be Decriminalized Nearly twenty thousand people die from prescription medication overdose in the United States each year. By federally decriminalizing medical marijuana, these statistics can be changed. Prescription drugs, and over-the-counter medications are the leading causes of accidental overdose related death in the United States. Logistically speaking
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