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Overview of Laparoscopic Surgery

the body and guide the instrument inserted through the other tubes. With these tiny tools, the surgeon can perform minor -- and in...

Transamerica, a Film Review

This film review pertains to Transamerica (2005, directed by Duncan Tucker), which is the story of Sabrina "Bree" Osborne, a trans...

Cardiac Surgery in Africa

This paper discusses a documentary film that follows eight Rweandan children as they go to a hospital for cardiac surgery. The chi...

ACL Reconstruction Surgery, Literature Review

This research paper pertains to anterior cruciate ligament (ACL) reconstructive knee surgery. Literature on this topic is reviewed...

Topics in Sociology

their breasts enlarged, while Oriental women may have their eyes reshaped, and Jewish and Italian women have rhinoplasty (nose sur...

Senior Citizen Surgery Patients and Risk Assessment

planning for postoperative care (Dunn 36). For example, if a patient suffers from poor lung function, that patient is at greater r...

Adding MRI to the Orthopedic Practice

for its lack of market-changing competition (Porter and Teisberg, 2004), but competition exists nonetheless, if only indirectly. ...

Plastic Surgery, Footbinding, and Violence Targeting Women

broken properly (Ping, 2002, p. 3). The practice existed in China for over 1,000 years, and spread from the imperial dynasty to ...

Surgery and Hypothermia

messages that initiate either warming or cooling responses to these deviations (Nicoll, 2002). Due to the fact that hypothermia ...

Cosmetic Surgery for Men

accessory that can make a man appear to be more "attractive powerful and masculine" (Fraser 77). Considering this new focus on co...

Role of Nurses in Knee Replacement Surgery

degrees of restricted motion (Swank and Lehnert 631). Computer-assisted systems (CAS) have been developed to aid surgeons in obtai...

Post Colon Rectal Surgery and Early Feeding

following review will demonstrate, there are very positive effects for patients who have elective colon rectal surgeries who are f...

Obesity, Surgery for Weight Loss, and Their Psychological Impacts

may bear little resemblance to the overweight person from before. Many who have weight reduction surgery also feel that they are...

Presurgical Anxiety Concept Analysis

like presurgical anxiety (Murphy, 1996). The total care coordinator identifies possible high-risk patients and supports the proce...

Adolescents and Pediatric Perioperative Nursing Interventions

an adolescent client (Wallis, 2004, p. 59). Data on the development of abstract reasoning skills, as well as of the "recognition o...

JCAHO Protocols and Wrong Site Surgery

site, taking into account "left/right distinction, multiple structures, and levels (as in spine surgery)" (Ritsma, 2004, p. 4). JC...

Congestive Heart Failure

the kidneys are not capable of disposing "sodium and water" (American Heart Association, 2007); this is what cases the edema (Amer...

Mirror, Mirror on the Wall: The Cosmetic Surgery Addiction

physician Enrique Morselli back in 1891 as dysmorphophobia, BDD has been defined as "the fear of having a deformity" (Hunt, Thienh...

A Diabetes Overview

In nine pages diabetes and its various aspects are considered regarding illness management including medication alternatives, non ...

Strategies For Marketing Cosmetic Lasers

This paper examines the marketing strategies utilized by a company selling cosmetic lasers for surgery and hair removal. This sev...

Total Knee Replacement Surgery and Prosthetics

In thirty pages this paper discusses total knee replacement surgery, its reasons, success rates, and also considers the different ...

Partial Left Ventriculectomy Use, the Batista Procedure

In sixteen pages this paper examines how heart transplant surgery can be replaced by the partial left ventriculectomy known as the...

Competent Patient Care Following Bypass Surgery

In three pages a post bypass surgery patient whose blood pressure is dropping and condition is deteriorating is the focus of this ...

Motivation for the Purchase of Cosmetic Surgery

are extremely important. The purchase of plastic surgery is undertaken by men and women, but the main target market remains women...

Prevalence of Depression in Cardiac Surgery Patients

by Johansson, Dahlstrom and Brostrom (2006), they found 10 studies that examine4d the relationship between depression in HF patien...

Plastic Surgery in Contemporary Society

will not cover elective surgery, and so, those on the lower end of the economic spectrum cannot get a tummy tuck after their fifth...

Cosmetic Surgery in California

to essentially look younger than they are because in Southern California age is not considered attractive. Even men are turning to...

A Child’s Voice/Holistic Perspective

and the spirit says, "Ahhh, everything feels much better now" (Wooten, 2005, p. 510). Another factor in her relationships with c...

Period and its Impact on the Incidence of Deep Wound Infection in Diabetic Individuals Undergoing Open Heart Surgery

Researchers have identified nutrition as a significant factor in wound healing. In fact, it has been argued that nutritional elem...

Personal Perspective on LASIK Surgery Pros and Cons

with adults at least age 21 who experience only minor visual distortion and who have no other eye problems (Cray et al., 1999). B...