learning about complex cases such as jaundice, and breathing difficulties in newborns, I understand the treatment options and complications. I also learnt why it is important to withdraw fluid from a nasal feeding tube to correctly identify the tubes location. After observing a caesarean section on a high risk lady who suffered obstetric cholestasis, and assisting with her recovery following a spinal block, I was able to monitor and observe her and baby. I also recovered a lady
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is capable of affecting any number of physical, mental, and behavioral problems in the human body. http://www.medicalnewstoday.com/articles/182287.php Starting at infancy, this disease portrays weak muscle tone (hypotonia), poor growth, troubles feeding, and delayed development. The most common feature of Prader-Willi is the feeling of constant hunger. This symptom is not present at birth, but usually apparent at around the age of two. This constant feeling of hunger and need to eat is from the person
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PAEDIATRICS - NUTRITION NUTRITIONAL VULNERABILITY OF INFANTS Reasons for Vulnerability * Low Nutritional Stores: * Newborn infants (particularly preterm) have poor stores of fat and protein * The smaller the child, the less the calories reserve and shorter period of withstanding starvation * High Nutritional Demands for Growth: * Nourishment required is greatest in infancy due to rapid growth * At 4 months, 30% of infant’s energy intake used for growth
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Running head: FAMILY HEALTH ASSESSMEN Family Health Assessment Open-Minded, Family Focused Questions: I interviewed my dad on all11 Functional Health Patters. Values, health perception: 1. Do you have any past medical history like surgery or chronic illness? 2. Do you use tobacco, alcohol or drugs? 3. Are you taking any prescription/nonprescription medications? 4. What religion are you? 5. Is there any religious restrictions or practices? Nutrition: 1. Are you in any kind of diet
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Treatment of Premature Infants Psychology 210 November 12, 2013 Premature babies are babies born before 37 weeks. For some babies they are born closer to their due dates and suffer from little to no consequences of being born preterm. Preterm infants is another word for premature that is defined as any infant born before their due date. Where as the term small-for-date refers to babies that are born at the desired due date
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the woman’s ovum join together, and a new organism, combining the genetic material of both, is created. Within hours, this organism, now called the ZYGOTE (P336)-A fertilized ovum (or egg) moving down the fallopian tube. Then it divided into 2-4-8 and so on, travel down the fallopian tube to the uterus in 2 to 4 days. –HCG (human chorionic gonadotropin) increase in woman body, enable to determine of pregnancy through urine. Within two weeks the test is more reliable. Conception may occur, however woman
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According to the CDC, every year 1 in 9 babies are born prematurely. My cousin Lillian was that 1 in 9 babies born in 2010. Lillian was born at 31 weeks and 6 days. Her first 44 days alive were spent in the NICU. Lillian was fortunate enough to be in a top-notch medical facility surrounded by a medical team that specialized in neonatology. With the accessibility of both practical and cost effective health, 3 out of 4 babies can be saved. Having a birth weight of merely 3.9 pounds, weight gain was
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insufficient and should not be allowed. The main reason as to why animal testing should be banned, is because it is cruel and inhumane. The Humane Society International has found out that the animals used in experiments are being subjected to force feeding, water and food deprivation, lengthy periods of physical restraints, the animals are being inflicted with burns and other wounds to study the healing process, they are forced to suffer a great amount of pain to study the effects and the remedies for
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Keeshia Whiteside Advance Directives and Living Wills Health care advance directives are legal documents that communicate a person's wishes about health care decisions in the event the person becomes incapable of making health care decisions. There are two basic kinds of advance directives: living wills and durable powers of attorney for health care. * A living will expresses, in advance, a person's instructions or preferences about future medical treatments, particularly end-of-life care
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United Church of Christ: The Church affirms individual freedom and responsibility. It has not asserted that hastened dying is the Christian position, but the right to choose is a legitimate Christian decision. Mainline and Liberal Christian denominations: Pro-choice statements have been made by the United Church of Christ, and the Methodist Church on the US West coast. The 'Episcopalian (Anglican) Unitarian, Methodist, Presbyterian and Quaker movements are amongst the most liberal, allowing at
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