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Physiotherapy Management of Total Knee Replacement
By Jonathan Blood-Smyth · 17 years ago
Osteoarthritis is a time related joint degenerative condition, the incidence rising rapidly with age, making it the commonest arthritic condition in the world. It develops in various joints in the human body and in some ...
Medical Interview
By Dan Crowley · 17 years ago
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Gestational Diabetes
By Marlon Dirk · 17 years ago
During pregnancy, women can develop a form of diabetes known as gestational diabetes. In most cases, these women have never been diagnosed with this condition before their pregnancies. Although gestational diabetes places the woman’s pregnancy ...
New Frontiers of Mind-Body Medicine Research
By Troy Centazzo · 17 years ago
Introduction
In this article, I explore the cutting edge of neuroscience and mind-body health. What scientists and researchers, with their new tools and techniques of evaluation and analysis, have discovered recently may leave you stunned. ...
Hospital Trauma (Part 1): Falling and Other Mishaps
By Thomas Sharon, R.n. M.p.h. · 17 years ago
Every hospital has risk assessment and fall prevention protocols, yet every hospital has patients falling out of bed, while walking, during transfer, from a chair, from the portable commode, from the toilet, from a seated ...
Standards of Care in the Emergency Room: The Emergency Waiting Game
By Thomas Sharon, R.n. M.p.h. · 17 years ago
THE EMERGENCY ROOM is the place where most of us enter the health-care system. Many are there with undiagnosed life-threatening conditions when they first arrive. Their survival depends on how fast and accurately the staffers ...
Intervention for Prevention of Bedsores
By Thomas Sharon, R.n. M.p.h. · 17 years ago
How Bedsores Can Be Prevented
Time and attention are the basic ingredients for preventing bedsores. Both are becoming scarcer with the ever-dwindling number of nurses in the workforce. When a person is bedridden, the main ...
Tips on Buying Medicines
By Mohammed Azhar · 17 years ago
Medicines are becoming the need of the hour. There will certainly be no one who may have not taken a pill throughout his life. Things have really become even critical because of the exaggerated pressure ...
Generic Drugs Popular Than Branded Drugs
By Stevie Teever · 17 years ago
Generic drugs are popular than the branded drugs, according to the report submitted by world pharmacist association. You need not be the surprised by this fact because generic drugs are reasonably cheaper than the original ...
Dialysis
By Thomas Sharon, R.n. M.p.h. · 17 years ago
Dialysis is an artificial process that imitates the kidneys. There are two types: (1) peritoneal (abdominal), which requires infusing a special solution into the abdomen and draining it back out, and (2) hemo (blood), which ...
Breathing Tubes
By Thomas Sharon, R.n. M.p.h. · 17 years ago
The act of connecting most people to ventilator machines requires that a plastic tube be placed in the upper airway (endotracheal tube). The presence of the throat tube places the patient at high risk for ...
Hepatitis Becomes A Risk For Patients of Antibiotic Treatment
By Peter Kent · 17 years ago
Hepatitis Becomes A Risk For Patients of Antibiotic Treatment
The antibiotic Ketek (telithromycin), which treats upper respiratory infections, has recently been linked to liver disease among patients. Additionally, in an issue of the Annals of ...
The Life Care Plan
By Thomas Sharon, R.n. M.p.h. · 17 years ago
I have written extensively in the past about inappropriate discharge planning from the hospital. Whether the third party reimbursement is based on cost plus (CP) or diagnostic related groupings (DRG), all hospitals have a financial ...
Seizure Precautions: The Standards of Nursing Practice
By Thomas Sharon, R.n. M.p.h. · 17 years ago
The most immediate concern when it comes to grand mal epileptic seizures is to prevent traumatic injury and/or choking. Because of the uncontrolled violent movements of the entire body, aside from the danger of choking, ...
Importance of personal hygiene
By Bella Mclaine · 17 years ago
Rightly it is said that when the child is born it comes with all those values that parents possess. Of course, it is only parents’ duty to make your child learn healthy habits. Child should ...
C-Diff: The Newest Hospital Acquired Scandal
By Thomas Sharon, R.n. M.p.h. · 17 years ago
The hospital acquired C-diff is a new strain of the bacteria normally found in the human bowels and has become virulent, causing severe diarrhea. Of course the elderly and newborns are the most susceptible because ...
The Battle of the Bedsores: Avoidable versus Unavoidable
By Thomas Sharon, R.n. M.p.h. · 17 years ago
I have always maintained that there is no such thing as an unavoidable pressure ulcer, although now the Federal Government seems to be saying otherwise. Or, are they really? We shall now examine this more ...
Hospital Mistakes, the Root Causes and the Cures
By Thomas Sharon, R.n. M.p.h. · 17 years ago
It has been nine years since the first news of the Institute of Medicine reporting that 100,000 people were being killed unnecessarily in hospitals each year. Moreover, it has been almost three years since Healthgrades, ...
The Standards of Care with Patient Controlled Analgesics (PCA)
By Thomas Sharon, R.n. M.p.h. · 17 years ago
Part I Fall Prevention
During the last fifteen years of hospital care in the
United States we have seen the proliferation of patient-controlled analgesics (PCA) given to post operative patients. PCA is the delivery of ...
Truth in Advertising for Hospitals?
By Thomas Sharon, R.n. M.p.h. · 17 years ago
Failure to Disclose
A number of states have already passed laws requiring hospitals to disclose medical and nursing errors to patients or their next of kin. The Joint Commission on Accreditation of Health Care Organizations ...