These doctors care for the elderly. They can treat people in their homes, doctors' offices, nursing homes, assisted-living centers, and hospitals. Hematologists These are specialists in diseases of theblood,spleen, and lymph glands, likesickle cell disease,anemia,hemophilia, andleukemia. Hospiceand...
The Human T Lymphotropic Virus (type 1 and type 2), or HTLV-1 and HTLV-2 is fairly common in certain areas of the world like Japan, the Caribbean, Africa, parts of South America, eastern Siberia, and the Pacific islands and less common (fewer than 1% of the population has it) in o...
Composite overwrapped pressure vessels are designed to contain fluids that operate under high pressures. In addition to internal pressure, the design needs to account for out-of-plane loading in the form of low-velocity impact. In this study, a numerical analysis of four models of composite over...
“Understanding Medical Surgical Nursing” by Linda Williams and Paula Hopper1.A variety of different feeding tubes exist, with each one used for a specific treatment.The main purposes for feeding tubes include removing gas and fluids from the stomach, providing nutrition and hydration, promoting ...
Type 2 diabetes mellitus (T2DM) is a globally prevalent chronic condition. Individuals with T2DM are at increased risk of developing complications associated with both macrovascular and microvascular pathologies. These comorbidities reduce patient qualit
To reflect real-world patterns of breast cancer care, the probability of receiving specific types of systemic treatment was based on data from the National Comprehensive Cancer Network as previously reported and, for newer therapies, expert opinion.25,26 Efficacy of systemic therapy was based on ...
Medical and nursing interventions that are considered inappropriate, such as blood tests, intravenous fluids, or a routine turning regimen, are stopped. We investigated physicians' and bereaved relatives' perspectives on end-of-life decision-making practices during the last three months and the last ...
There is growing evidence that fluctuations in brain activity may exhibit scale-free (“fractal”) dynamics. Scale-free signals follow a spectral-power curve of the form P(f ) ∝ f−β, where spectral power decreases in a power-law fashion wit
Many ICUs have patient management systems which collect the patients’ physiological parameters, record nursing activities, and other interventions (such as the administration of drugs and boluses of fluids). This information, typically collected at specified time periods say every minute or hour, is ...
ACSM suggested for athletes a water intake plan of about 500 mL of fluids 2 h before exercise, followed by an interval hydration during exercise every 15–20 min, especially in ultra-endurance sports at high humidity and temperature. Indeed, a condition of water deficit negatively impacts sport...