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"Apocalypse Then: A History of Plague." World Book Science Year. 2009. eLibrary. Web. 14 Dec. 2015. When the disease swept like a brush fire across Europe in the 1300's, people called it by other names: the Great Mortality, the Pestilence, or the death. Yersinia pestis—the bacterium that causes plague. We know the fleas can transmit the bacteria to people by leaping onto—and biting—warm human skin after their rat hosts die. The scholars still debate the exact origin

Radiologic Technologists, play a very important role when it comes to stopping the transmission of these infections. Radiologic technologists come in close contact with patient’s every day. This means that anything from a portable chest x-ray to a barium enema could

a scope. Feedback: INCORRECT A scope is not used to visualize the colon during a barium enema. C) A barium-based dye is injected intravenously, followed by abdominal scanning. Feedback: INCORRECT Barium is not injected via the intravenous route, and scanning is not part of the procedure. D) A digital exam is performed after the barium is removed by an enema. Feedback: INCORRECT A barium enema does not involve removal of this substance. Points Earned: 0.0/1.0 Correct Answer(s):

screening occur earlier. There are several ways to diagnose the cancer. In a colonoscopy, the doctor inserts a small, flexible viewing tube into the rectum. Any polyps that are found can be removed and sent to a pathologist to be examined. A barium enema involves patients drinking a white substance containing barium that helps the intestines to show up on x-rays. A blood test that tests for tumor markers of colon cancer may also be performed. Treatment Surgery is often the initial treatment for the

Usual Adult Dose for Ulcerative Colitis 100 mg rectal suspension (retention enema) nightly for 21 days or until clinical remission occurs. Difficult cases may require 2 or 3 months of treatment. Clinical symptoms should subside within 3 to 5 days; discontinue use if no improvement within 2 to 3 weeks; some patients may require 2

ensure that the patient maintains a healthy weight and diet. Besides food, the patient has to have sufficient fluid intake to stay hydrated and prevent constipation. If the patient is constipated, nurses should take note and administer laxatives or enema when necessary to prevent faecal

preformed? • Fecal Microbiota Transplant (FMT) is a procedure in which fecal matter, or stool, is collected from a tested donor, mixed with a saline or other solution, strained, and placed in a patient, by colonoscopy, endoscopy, sigmoidoscopy, or enema. • The purpose of fecal transplant is to replace good bacteria that has been killed or suppressed, usually by the use of antibiotics, causing bad bacteria, specifically Clostridium difficile, or C. diff., to over-populate the colon. • C. difficile

The use and practice of medicine has greatly evolved through time. Many physicians in the past, especially in the Elizabethan era, did not possess knowledge and skill that modern physicians need to have. It took trial and error for people to fully understand the practice of medicine, which takes time. In the Elizabethan Era, medical practices proved to be ineffective because doctors lacked education, treatments were deleterious and good hygiene was not practiced. Primarily, the lack of education

of his horse, he still drank several pots of coffee a day, normally at meals and while relaxing in the evenings, but when he was on the back of his horse it was water out of his canteen because he didn’t want another bout of constipation or another enema tube stuck up his butt.

Europeans often thought Native Americans on one hand vicious cannibals, with no social organization, but on another hand pictured Indian society as being orderly, advanced, and civilized. There are three famous sixteenth- century pictures. Showing that Indians were civilized people. Life among the Eastern Woodland economy looks in the first painting very civilized. The Eastern Woodlands economy seems stable for the men making canoes. Their religion looks to be a dance ritual for their gods. As their