Extracorporeal

During the past few shifts, I have been astonished, and thankful about how often the nurses, doctors, and respiratory therapists have been providing me with learning opportunities. I feel this is because they have observed my enthusiasm and willingness to learn. For example, I asked a nurse if I could observe her giving care to a 24-week old preemie with necrotizing entercolitis. This nurse explained, that because of this baby’s immature age, she had to cluster the baby’s cares, and monitor this

Acute respiratory distress syndrome is a disease process that requires specific, intensive care to increase the odds of patient survival. Due to the rapid and significant decline in a patient’s ability to maintain their respiratory status, ventilation techniques in treating acute respiratory distress syndrome are specific and unique. Multiple techniques have been studied extensively and a few stand above the rest in changing the mortality rate. High frequency percussive ventilation and high frequency

course of the first week of college, I became sick. I was coughing up blood, seeing double vision, and having trouble walking. When I arrived to the hospital in a taxi, I was immediately put on two life support systems: a tracheostomy and ECMO (extracorporeal membrane oxygenation). I had Acute Respiratory Distress Syndrome and Acute Interstitial Pneumonia. I wasn’t aware of my diagnoses at the time because I was drugged so heavily, but I knew that I was dying. I remember asking an ER doctor if I was

Cassie Gremillion OB Project Week 3 CLTCC-Alexandria  Index Spontaneous Abortion……………………….3-4 Umbilical Cord Compression …….................5-6 Premature Rupture of Membranes ………….7-8 Uterine Rupture ……………………………..9-10 Uterine Inversion ……………………………11-12 Hematoma of Episiotomy ……………………13-14 Meconium Aspiration Syndrome …………….15-16 Infant of a Diabetic Mother …………………..17-18 Source ………………………………………… 19 Spontaneous Abortion Definiton Non-induced embryonic or fetal death or passage of products

For nearly half a century ultrasound has been used in the clinical setting for medical diagnosis. It is the most common imaging modality of obstetrics and gynecology and to this day, there has been no evidence showing harmful effects of ultrasound at the clinical exposure levels. There has been research into the possible biological effects of ultrasound and while ultrasound is still generally seen as a safer form of diagnostic imaging, it is still important to understand what those biological effects

The two huge questions that haunt many heart and lung transplant patients and surgeons alike are; can a fake, mechanical heart or lung be placed into a patient and not only work for years, but also detect abnormalities while doing so? And how long can a viable for the patient heart or lung live out of the donors body with the separation from the lungs that provide a constant oxygen supply as well as a disconnection from the vein-born blood that the heart most famously pumps? As may be expected, the

Acute renal failure is the sudden loss of the kidneys ability to function; affecting more than 100,000 people in the United States alone each year (NIDDK, 2008). This paper will discuss the basic pathophysiology of acute renal failure, including its cause, disease mechanisms, symptoms, some of the treatments and pharmacological therapies. Pathophysiology Acute renal failure (ARF) is the rapid loss of kidney function occurring when high levels of uremic toxins accumulate in the blood

Stem cell research, through its ethics, methods, and funding, has caused great controversy over the past several decades. Scientists, medical specialists, religious groups, spiritual groups, the government and the public have devoted a major interest in this subject. Some portray stem cell research as a dangerous, inhumane study whereas others see it as a growing beneficial factor for opportunity of the advancement of the medical world. Stem cell research has been proven to aid various diseases

Dr. James Hardy performed the first human lung transplant in 1963, although the patient only lived 18 days.1 The first successful long-term lung transplant was performed in 1983 in Toronto. Recipients of the first lung transplants were plagued by infection, rejection, and most significantly, bronchial anastomotic dehiscence.2 However with advancements in bronchoscopy, ventilation perfusion screening, echocardiography and radiological imaging, there are other post-surgical complications which have

. upper ureter may be unable to be passed spontaneously. Lithotripsy, sometimes called extracorporeal Shockwave lithotripsy (ESWL) uses ultrasound to deliver energy to break up the large stone into smaller stones and debris that then can be passed or captured by ureteroscopy. Patients with a large stone that fills the whole kidney (staghoni calculi) may require removal using a special instrument inserted through an incision in the skin directly into the kidney (percutaneous nephro lithotomy). *