UNIT 4 Study Guide For BLOOD COLLECTION I. Capillary Blood Collection A. Assemble equipment. 1. Gauze or cotton balls. 2. Alcohol swabs‚ or 70% alcohol. 3. Sterile blood lancet. 4. Three capillary tubes (anticoagulated and plain). 5. Pencil and paper. (In hospital you would have a requisition slip). 6. Gloves. B. Select and prepare the site. 1. Massage the finger to increase circulation.
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BELOW THE KNEE AMPUTATION Below the knee amputation (BKA) is surgery to remove all or part of your foot or your leg below the knee cap. A below the knee amputation is a surgical procedure when the bottom part of the leg is removed with an incision below the knee. This is also known as a trans-tibial amputation. This procedure is recommended when a patient has a severely diseased or damaged lower leg that cannot be treated. Below-knee amputation is usually performed for extensive high-grade soft-tissue
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Blood lactate profile report Trained -v- Untrained The purpose of this test was to determine individuals‚ (trained and untrained) lactate threshold and subsequently interpret the results. This will allow for a comparison in how training affects the accumulation of blood lactate by using the results from the trained versus the untrained individual. When the rate of lactate production exceeds the rate of uptake‚ lactic acid accumulates in the blood volume‚ and then we see the onset of blood
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Administer medication and monitor effects 1. Identify current legislation‚ guidelines policies and protocols relevant to the administration of medication. The Medicines Acts 1968 and various amendments cover the legal management of medication. While I as a cae assistant am not expected to have detailed knowledge of the legislation‚ I do need to be aware of the legal difference between types of drugs and the legal framework that would allow me to handle medicines on behalf of my residents. The
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and/or updated 1959 3. Describe the nature of the food selection guide Is visions for Australians to have the best cardiovascular health in the world and its mission is to reduce suffering and death from heart‚ stroke and blood vessel disease in Australia 4. What nutrition message does the guideline promote It aims to help Australians eat foods healthy for their hearts and to prevent suffering from heart related diseases‚ and to have the best cardiovascular system in the world
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harmful effects on animals. These deterrents can include toxins‚ increased volume of urine‚ or even affect water balance but they include a wide variety of physiological consequences (Dearing et al‚ 2002). Lumbriculus have a dorsal blood vessel that pumps blood from the posterior to the anterior‚ the tail to the head‚ of the worm using muscle contractions (Halfmann and Crisp‚ 2011). This peristalsis can be viewed very easily through their thin‚ transparent skin. Lumbriculus also diffuse moisture
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Blood for Sale Case Study Blood for Sale Ethics Phil-245 I found the article called Blood for Sale very intriguing. Many questions arose from this on my mind. The most obvious is‚ how ethical is it to sell blood to people who need it? The other issue that bothered me is‚ how ethical is it to underpay and overcharge for that blood? My initial reaction to this was complete disbelief. I found it hard to understand how anyone could do some of the things mentioned until I reread the article
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residents in Singapore. Design: Cross sectional study‚ quantitative study‚ convenience sampling. Setting: Merpati Road‚ Macpherson‚ Singapore. Participants: Two hundred and ninety two individuals aged 18 and above. Measurements: Blood pressure using Dinamap Automatic Blood Pressure Recorder‚ height and waist circumference using measuring tape‚ weight using weighing machine Results: Among 289 participants (115 male‚ 174 female)‚ there were 1/4 of participants are at risk of developing cardiovascular
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But it may be linked to a slight rise in high blood pressure‚ researchers say Coffee drinkers can take heart from a series of studies presented this week at American Heart Association conferences in San Francisco. For example‚ coffee drinkers appear to have a lower risk of hospitalization for abnormal heart rhythms. And there’s no indication that having a few cups every day increases the risk of atherosclerosis‚ the thickening of blood vessel walls that can lead to heart attacks and other
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obese (17%)‚ cardiovascular system problems (15%) and increases cholesterol in the blood (15 %).Besides‚ according to research by British scientists‚ if the children watch TV more than 2 hours per day‚ they will have asthma risk twice higher than other children who watch TV less than 2 hours per day. The scientists discovered when the children spend hours eyes on TV screen or computer‚ their retinal blood vessels will be narrowed . The final harmful is that children watch TV to much can only
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