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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...

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...

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...

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....

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....

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...

Presurgical Anxiety Concept Analysis

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

Laparoscopic Cholecystectomy - Case Study

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

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...

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...

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...

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...

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...

Deep Wound Infection and Blood Glucose Levels: A Proposed Study

infections can, of course, relate to a number of factors. The type of care needed can vary both according to the type of wound an...

Deep Wound Infection and Blood Glucose Levels: A Proposed Study

not just in adverse impacts to the patients themselves but also in significant societal costs. Wounds that are improperly cared f...

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...

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...

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...

Low Anterior Sigmoid Resection

and Cox, 2001; p. 375). The ascending colon, which is approximately six inches long, extends upward to the hepatic flexure....

Police Personality: Unique Traits Or Socialization And Experience?

and processes that are beneficial to understanding what has occurred and why. This leads directly to the final stage in the Kolb ...

Congestive Heart Failure

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

Case Study/ICU Wound Mgmt

(Cardozo, 2003, p. S35). Within a few hours of being admitted to the ICU, Jacks condition was evaluated using the Waterlow risk as...

Nursing Method of Adaptation

Iin five pages the adaptation nursing method is explored from different perspective and possible implementations with emphasis upo...