prevents enough oxygen from getting to the lungs and into the blood. ARDS can be caused by any major injury to the lung. Some common causes of ARDS are breathing vomit into the lungs (aspiration)‚ inhaling chemicals‚ lung transplant‚ pneumonia‚ septic shock (infection throughout the body) and trauma. ARDS leads to a buildup of fluid in the air sacs. This fluid prevents enough oxygen from passing into the bloodstream. The fluid buildup also makes the lungs heavy and stiff‚ and decreases the lungs ’ ability
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in the same way at the same time. September 11th 2001 - 9/11 - changed all that. Perhaps it hasn’t changed anything permanently‚ but at least for that day and its aftermath‚ it forced us all to experience and feel the same things. We all felt the shock‚ and horror‚ and fear‚ and overwhelming anger. September 11th has come to stand for that point where we were shocked out of our old patterns and into a new world‚ where the past became the present‚ where illusion became reality‚ where friends became
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Seligman (1975) theory was that humans associate with one thing or another that trigger the process. Due to this he undertook an experiment (Seligman’s experiment)‚ he would ring a bell and then give a light shock to the dog. A few time after the dog has been shocked‚ the dog reacts to the shock as though it already been shocked. As for the second part of the experiment‚ Seligman put each dog into a large crate‚ segregated through the middle with a low fence This means that if the dog preferred to
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unintentionally by following authority. In his experiment people had to give shocks to another person‚ who was actually an actor‚ whenever this person failed to answer a question correctly. The voltage of the shock would increase with every wrong answer. 65% continued giving shocks until the end‚ giving the actor a deathly shock while they have been seeing him screaming from the pain and getting sicker and sicker with every shock. Variations of the experiment show that the more authority the experimenter
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ASSIGNMENT # 1 1. Adam Smith‚ 77 years of age‚ is a male patient who was admitted from a nursing home to the intensive care unit with septic shock secondary to urosepsis. The patient has a Foley catheter in place from the nursing home with cloudy greenish‚ yellow-colored urine with sediments. The nurse removes the catheter after obtaining a urine culture and replaces it with a condom catheter attached to a drainage bag since the patient has a history of urinary and bowel incontinence. The patient
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protected my reputation and my selfishness has got the better of me‚ preventing admitting the truth about that night. Instead of love and trust‚ I have brought happy never after for the young lovers. The exact moment still flashes before me‚ the shock in Hero’s sweet‚ innocent eyes as Claudio aggresively shoved her like she was dirt. Her heart sunk into the ground just as my selfishness got the better of me. I still reminisce the memories of the young lovers‚ the way they dreamed into each other’s
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Hypotension In physiology and medicine‚ hypotension is abnormally low blood pressure‚ especially in the arteries of the systemic circulation. It is best understood as a physiological state‚ rather than a disease. It is often associated with shock‚ though not necessarily indicative of it. Hypotension is the opposite of hypertension‚ which is high blood pressure. Blood pressure is the force of blood pushing against the walls of the arteries as the heart pumps out blood. If it is lower than normal
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Explore how DBC Pierre displays his ideas to shock the audience in Vernon God Little. Vernon God Little‚ written by DBC Pierre‚ is a satirical novel based around a massacre at a high school in Texas in which some of the students got possession of a gun and murdered some of their teachers and fellow students. The novel is about a boy called Vernon who is best friends with the main killer‚ Jesus. Vernon is framed as an accessory to murder and the story line follows the down fall of his life. There
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the audience to make out that as the King was killed nature itself recoiled is shock to the terrible crime that had just been committed‚ as the tale is also a play the stage directions add up to create a far more tense and dramatic effect as to emphasise the power of nature’s reaction making the scene ever more shocking for the audience. The Pardoners Tale conveys strong notions of horrific lies of deceit in order to shock the reader and lead them to the truth about the church and the corruption of
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9 Nubain is the drug of choice for all head injuries requiring analgesia a. TRUE b. FALSE 10 Respiratory support with high concentrations of O2 must be a consideration with head injured patients a. TRUE b. FALSE 11 Patients with unexplained shock and a frontal or lateral impact injury must be suspected of aortic disruption a. TRUE b. FALSE 12 The diagnosis of an open pneumothorax is by rapid bilateral chest auscultation a. TRUE b. FALSE 13 Serious chest injuries impair the process
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