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    The importance of vision in sports is a subject that triggers everyone’s awareness for the past couple years .In fact, with the increasing of people playing sports as a recreational activity or at a professional level, it is becoming more relevant than ever to stress the type of eye injuries that can happen while practicing a sport and the best way to protect ourselves. Whether it’s basketball, football, baseball or any type of sports human in general, is more exposed than ever to eye injuries. According

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    victim; Administer up to 5 back blows using the heel of your hand- * Take the bottom part (heel) of your hand and deliver 5 separate forceful strikes between the person's shoulder blades. * Keep the back blows separate. Try to dislodge the object with each one. * Look for improvement after each one. Perform 5 abdominal thrusts (Heimlich manoeuvre). * Get behind the victim. * Wrap your arms around his waist. Make sure you wrap your arms below the rib cage. * Take the underside

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    In 2008, security at an airport in Cairo captures a man attempting to smuggle priceless Egyptian artifacts, including two mummies of a cat and an ibis. (BBC News 2008) In 1999, authorities in Thailand found over 700 artifacts, many of them almost a thousand years old, hidden in a sculptor’s house in a town called Ayutthaya. Many of them are related to Buddhist practices and structures, and are thought to have been stolen from important sites. (Akanond 1999) Even more recently in 2015, due to the

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    Eye Injury Overview One of the most common damages is caused to eye is in cornea and is called the traumatic pathology. The exposed location of the cornea justifies the frequency with which it undergoes damage. It should however be specified that the cornea is protected from the eyelids, which are ready to close instantly not only at the time of the trauma, but also only in anticipation of the same (blink reflex). Causes The lesions of the corneal tissue can be caused by several factors such as:

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    Its advantages are: it can often be carried out without dismantling the equipment, it is more effective since all parts will be reached, the damage caused by chemical cleaning is minimal and generally less than that due to conventional mechanical cleaning, the damage induced could enhance corrosion or fouling during subsequent operations, it reduces the time required and it often generates much less materials. Meanwhile, the disadvantages are: it chemically

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    be divided into three anatomic parts: the external, middle and inner ear. The tympanic membrane is part of the middle ear and is commonly known as the eardrum. The tympanic membrane is a really thin layer of tissue that is difficult to permanently damage because of its toughness. On observation, the Tympanic membrane is clear and reflect light. To observe the Tympanic membrane, one need to do a posterior, lateral and upward traction of the ear pinna for adult, but for the pediatric population, you

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    Most people that have a disorder involving HSAN have some form of lose between pain and temperature. Most of the time when you can't feel the pain and it is linked to CIP you have some form of nerve damage if you have felt it before or if you haven't felt it before have some form of brain damage affecting the train of thought to the

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    imaging is now the standard of care for a person who has sustained a significant head injury to determine if a skull fracture has occurred. A CT image will determine whether there is hemorrhaging or a blood clot forming, brain swelling, or even if a foreign object has penetrated the brain.

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    happen from food that is bought from your local grocery store. This includes dairy products that were not properly refrigerated, canned goods that have damaged seals, and fresh produce. If a product that you buy has an undeclared allergen or foreign object in it, you can even go after the manufacture that prepared and packaged the food. Family Members of Accident Victim Even if the injury did not happen to yourself, you could still receive compensation from the guilty party. This is common in situations

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    The organization, People for the Ethical Treatment of Animals or PETA strictly enforces that “Animals are not ours to eat, wear, experiment on, use for entertainment or abuse in any other way”. This is an American animal rights organization based in Norfolk, Virginia and led by Ingrid Newkirk. PETA is also known to be the largest animals’ rights organization in the world (“About PETA”). Four areas in which animals suffer most extrusively for extended periods of time are predominantly focused on.

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