SBI4U ISP Part II: Genetic Technology Research Paper Embryonic Stem Cell Use Abstract: Researchers discovered that embryonic stem cells could be originated from early human embryos. This discovery has raised a series of ethical and public-policy questions that are now being confronted by multiple international organizations, nations, cultures, and religious traditions. This essay surveys policies for human embryonic stem cell research in four regions of the world, reports on the recent debate
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Standard Terminologies in Nursing In home care, Congestive Heart Failure (CHF) is a prevalent diagnosis, encompassing at least fifty percent of our total patient census. ‘Standardized nursing terminologies play a significant role in defining nursing care’ (Park, 2013). I will show how NANDA, NIC and NOC apply to CHF, the elements involved and how it can improve the patient. The purpose of this paper is to show the main nursing diagnoses, interventions and outcomes of NANDA, NIC and NOC (NNN) and
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Chagas disease, the parasitic infection caused by Trypanosoma cruzi, is found mainly in Latin America, where it is mostly transmitted to humans by the feces known as “kissing bugs”. The Triatoma or “kissing” bug. Image/CDC in 2013 the number of cases of Chagas disease in the United States to be somewhere between 300,000 and 1 million. The United States is ranked 7th among nations for the amount of cases. In Texas, approximately 45% of the collected kissing bugs have tested positive for T. cruzi
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between hospitals’ performance on HQA quality indicators and mortality for Medicare enrollees admitted for acute myocardial infarction, congestive heart failure, and pneumonia.” Exhibit 3 below shows the resulting adjusted odds ratios of mortality for three separate HQA measures. The three measures are for AMI (acute myocardial infarction), CHF (congestive heart failure), and pneumonia. Each of these three measures was categorized into quartiles: the 1st quartile category includes the lowest 25% of
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they transition to alternate levels of care may reduce readmission by 50% (Service, 2008). The intent of this proposed paper is to take a look at hospital readmissions rates in correlation with the patient being elderly and having a diagnosis of heart failure and assess what can be done to positively change these statistics, which increase the quality of care we as healthcare professionals provide to our patients. A Rationale for Selecting the Issue or Problem of Interest Hospital readmissions can
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Pharmacological action of ramipril Introduction Angiotensin converting enzyme (ACE) inhibitors are used for the treatment of cardiovascular disease in people with diabetes. Ramipril is a second-generation ACE inhibitor, and is prescribed in patients with diabetes for several clinical indications including the management of hypertension, following myocardial infarction (MI), in chronic heart failure, in diabetic nephropathy and in patients with increased cardiovascular risk, where it has been shown to reduce
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The Pharmacology of Aliskiren, and its Safety and Efficacy in the Treatment of Hypertension Kiandra Arnold PHM 813, Summer 2015 Hypertension is a common condition in which blood pressure in the arteries is elevated. A number of conditions can cause blood pressure to spike, but in hypertension there is a chronic elevation of blood pressure. There are two types of hypertension; primarily (essential) and secondary hypertension. 90-95% of patients have essential hypertension, which is a form with
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diomyopathy Topic presentation on Cardiomyopathy Topic presentation on Cardiomyopathy INDEX S.N | CONTENT | PG.NO | 1 | Introduction | 5 | 2 | Definition Cardiomyopathy | 5 | 3 | Classification | 6 | 4 | Risk Factors
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most of her life she had been healthy. She had five living children and had lost one during childbirth, but all had been happy and healthy. She hadn’t been on any sort of medication until the last 18 years after she had been diagnosed with congestive heart failure. Being a former nurse she had lots of knowledge on the subject, and I’m certain that she knows far more than I do in regards to the subject. Her general idea on health is being able to proceed with her day as she needs to. In the past
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This scoring system is broken down into seven risk factors that are assigned a specific score. These risk factors are then summed up to a possible maximum score of 9; higher scores suggest a higher risk of stroke. The seven risk factors are Congestive heart failure,
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