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Bowel cancer is the second leading cancer in Australia with over 90 % of whom over 50 years old (Bowel Cancer Australia, 2014). Every year, over 17,000 people are newly diagnosed with bowel cancer (Cancer Council Australia, 2015). The most common treatment for all stages of bowel cancer is removing the cancer and forming a stoma which may help people to maintain the maximum function of their digest system. Depending on the patient’s situation, the colostomy can be reversed to recover the function

PENETRATING CRANIOCEREBRAL INJURIES INTRODUCTION Traumatic Brain Injury is a large subset of the global public health epidemic of trauma. It is estimated that 1.7 million people sustain traumatic brain injury (TBI) in the United States of America (1). In a study by Crandon et al, published in the West Indian Journal of Medicine in 2007, 857 patients were admitted to the University Hospital of the West Indies over a four year period with TBI. Of that total only eight percent (8%) were due to penetrating

Saturday December 7th, 1991 (11.08 a.m.) As Booker flicked through the pages of a gossip magazine, he unconsciously fell into a synchronized rhythm with the audible ticking of the wall clock. Each page turned was another second passed, and he had just about exhausted all the reading material in the waiting room of his local doctor. Tom had been in the examination room for nearly an hour and throughout the interminably long wait, the muscles in his neck and shoulders had become increasingly taut

Assessments of Chronic Pain and Mental Impairment Introduction The objective of performing an assessment is to make a judgment or diagnosis based on the collected data about the patient (Jarvis, 2012). Two important assessments are pain and mental health. This paper will cover both assessments of a female adult patient with chronic pain and an elderly adult patient with mental impairment. Both patients’ health assessment histories, SOAP notes, and summaries of findings will be discussed. The nurse

Chronic kidney disease (CKD) is a long-term condition characterized by presence of kidney damage or a decrease of glomerular filtration rate (GFR) less than 60ml/min/1.73m2 for 3 months or longer periods (Levey, Bosch, Lewis, 1999). Kidney disease always being neglected as it was asymptomatic in the early stage. Chronic kidney disease was divided into 5 stages and according to its severity. The staging system is based on the estimated GFR and remaining kidney function. In each stages of chronic kidney

Historically, health care professionals believed rural populations had a health advantage. They frequently sent tuberculosis patients and others into the country for fresh air and a change of scenery (Lourenço 2012). However, as the scientific understanding of disease expanded and urban population and political power grew, these advantages diminished. Today, staggering disparities exist across the globe in the health status of rural populations compared to their urban counterparts, both between and

INTRODUCTION Cancer is a serious public health issue worldwide, due to its increasing prevalence. Annually there are more than eight million new cases of cancer in the world, however there has been significant progress in the treatment methods. Of the total cases, around 40% of patients will receive curative benefit from surgery, radiation, chemotherapy, or a combination modality (1). The choice of cancer treatment will depend on its location, extent, relationship with neighboring anatomical structures

This literature review will assess the value of magnetic resonance (MR) and computed tomography (CT) in detecting pathologies associated with vertigo. The common two types of vertigo peripheral and central vertigo are defined. Previous studies suggest that both MR and CT are good options for detecting semicircular dehiscence syndrome related peripheral vertigo. Although the accuracy rates of MR and CT are comparable in detecting acute intracranial hemorrhage, MR has an overall higher diagnostic yield

location of the disease; for instance, some may experience more of one symptom than another. Many common symptoms include, persistent diarrhea, abdominal pain, fever, rectal bleeding, anal leakage, weight loss, abscesses (a localized infection), fistulas (abnormal tube connecting two hollow organs such as the vagina and the colon), anxiety and depression. Many less common symptoms that would affect 1 in 3 people would be joint, skin and eye inflammations [1]. This disease may also lead to other related

Urinary incontinence (UI) is one of the important underreported problems that leads to serious impact on physical, psychological and social well-being. According to research urinary incontinence guideline panel UI is defined as involuntary loss or leakage of urine which occurs when bladder pressure surpasses urethral pressure (Porth, 2014). With a knowingly higher incidence in females than males, this syndrome is a combination of age related changes and pathology of genitourinary system (Workman