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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...

Elective Surgery and Preoperative Anemia

There is a greater possibility of being transfused if the patient has anemia prior to surgery. There is a greater chance of compli...

Gage, Galton and Biopsychosocial Approach

This research paper concerns the biopsychosocial approach and the case of Phineas Gage and the theories of Francis Galton, which w...

A Case Study, Bariatric Surgery

This research paper described a case study and whether or not the patient's health can be beneficially addressed by bariatric surg...

ACL Reconstruction Surgery, Literature Review

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

The Many Applications of Ultrasound in Surgery

is proving to be much more than a diagnostic medical imaging tool. It is finding more and more applications, in fact, in surgery....

WRONG-SITE SURGERY AND FOLLOW-UP

can add to the scenario from the patient point of view. Again, the point here is not to point fingers (the hospitals legal departm...

Weight Loss Surgeries: A Comparison

than an hour 2. 24 hours in the hospital. 3. Recovery period of 6 weeks. 4. Loss of work time of 1 week. B. Gastric Bypass 1. 2 h...

Temperature Reduction in Perioperative Therapy

meperidine and skin surface warming on shivering." AORN Journal July 2007: 113+. General OneFile. Web. 29 Aug. 2011....

Nursing Care for Elderly Patient

By addressing this need, which includes rehabilitation designed to aid her mobility, nursing intervention can also have a positive...

Tommy John Surgery and Current Research

different populations that can be impacted by the use of this kind of surgery. Researchers have recognized the devastating impa...

A Pre-Operative Nursing Care Case Study

male smoker, who was admitted for surgery for a right inguinal hernia. At 99 kgs and just 153 cm tall, Mr. Taylors Body Mass Inde...

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...

Laparoscopic Cholecystectomy - Case Study

problems?] The pharmacology interventions target the patients different health conditions, such as high blood pressure and high c...

Bloodless Surgery Practice of Jehovah's Witnesses

all available strategies and methodologies to minimize blood loss; salvage as much of the patients own blood as possible; and also...

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...

Overview of the Painful Condition Known as Venous Leg Ulcers

of a pulmonary embolus" are warning signs that his patient may experience venous leg ulcers (RCN Institute, 1998). Complicating f...

1994 Baby Deaths at Canada's Winnipeg Health Sciences Center

In seven pages this paper examines the post heart surgery deaths of 12 babies in this Canadian health care facility in a discussio...

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...

Article on Bypass Surgery Critiqued

which resulted in 47 practices taking part and two of these having two patients. The sample : 98 (75 male) consecutive patients w...

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...

2000 Study 'Gender and Short-Term Recovery from Cardiac Surgery' Reviewed

(2000) reviews several reasons that women could have more difficulty in recovery - greater age at the time of surgery; increased c...

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...

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...

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 ...

Topics in Sociology

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