Pneumonia: the Silent Killer

Exposure turned a mild head cold into pneumonia and worsened other conditions. Pneumonia was third ranking on the long list of killer diseases, after typhoid and dysentery. The diet of the Civil War soldier was somewhere between barely palatable to absolutely awful (Adams 1952). “It was estimated that 995 of 1,000 Union troops eventually

Medicine During the Civil War 1861-1865 When Walt Whitman wrote that he believed the "real war" would never get into the books, this is the side he was talking about (Belferman 1996). Yet, it is important that we remember and recall the medical side of the conflict too, as horrible and terrifying as it was (Adams 1952). Long before doctors and people knew anything about bacteria and what caused disease was the time of Civil War medicine. Doctors during the Civil War (always referred to as "surgeons")

young age. Some at the of 14-15. As the outcome of all of this millions of deaths occur. According to recent news from CNN, people smoke because smoking makes them become very addicted and passionate defiance, never noticing that smoking is a gradual killer,

INTRODUCTION: Influenza, more commonly known as the ‘flu’, is a chameleon like infectious disease, that presents itself with varying characteristics from year to year, due to the wavering identity of the strain. “Like HIV, influenza is an RNA virus, constantly changing its appearance and adept at eluding recognition by the human immune system” (Schneider, 2014). From its inception of 1918, influenza claims an average of 250,000 to 500,000 people worldwide, annually. Little is known of the virus’s

cirrhosis sufferers (Chronic liver, 2011). The fourth group is the toxin-related group which includes alcoholism and the last is the miscellaneous group with ailments such as right heart failure (Chronic liver, 2011). Within these groups there is a silent killer though which raises the risk for that group. That is the toxin-related group because alcoholism leads to cirrhosis and then to hepatitis (Chronic liver, 2011). That group alone takes a person through three groups in one shot. While researching

Diabetes mellitus is a chronic disease that occurs in millions of Americans. It occurs when the body cannot secrete insulin or when the insulin secreted is not effectively utilized. This disease can be silent in the beginning stages yet deadly once the organs suffer severe damage along with the nerves and blood vessels. Type one and type two diabetes are comparable but have many differences which will be discussed. Introduction Statistics list diabetes as being the 7th deadliest disease

eating disease HIV .Human Immunodeficncy Virus or HIV was tested positive in a man from Congo. HIV is the attack by a disease of the body’s immune system essentially decaying it over time. With the simple symptoms of the common influenza HIV is a silent killer with more than 70 million infections globally and more than 35 million deaths (World Health Organisation, 2015). HIV can be transmitted in many different ways, as well as having multiple symptoms and signs. There is no current cure for HIV or AIDS

sprawled across the floor, a normal result of my flashbacks. I hauled myself up and went downstairs to get some breakfast before my cousins, Scarlett, Alex, and Gemma realized I had another flashback. They definitely wouldn’t let me go to find the killers if they knew I kept having flashbacks. Once I got to the kitchen, I realized our chef wasn’t awake to make breakfast because it was 4 o’clock in the morning. I decided to waste a few hours training, so I would be hungry for breakfast. I started

earth for in just a few years. In fact, the earth is badly polluted with “...tens of thousands of chemicals in use today throughout the world” (Noyes and Lema). Unfortunately, some are recorded as unknown or poorly tested. Chemical pollution, the silent killer, brings us a step closer to the destruction of the earth every day. Therefore, humans must take action to stop the overuse of chemical substances because of their tremendous negative impact on organisms’ health, their link to ecological disasters

Pulmonary Embolism a Silent killer Pulmonary Embolism is a life-threatening condition that has most serious manifestation of venous thromboembolism that is leading cause of sudden death. “With massive pulmonary embolism (PE) being the first or second leading cause of unexpected death in adults, protection against PE is critical in appropriately selected patients” (Georgiou, Katz, Ganson, Eng, & Hon, 2015). How does this effect the nursing? If Pulmonary embolism is suspected, nurses goal is to halt