Anesthetics such as isoflurane and propofol, high-strength GABAergic medications[21], and/or barbiturates are the most common form of medication used to induce a coma. The sedative is continuously administered every couple of hours to keep the patient unconscious in an attempt to minimize brain ...
Gas is air that collects in your digestive system (stomach or intestines). Bloating is the tight, full feeling you get from too much gas.What are common causes for gas and bloating?Swallowing air while you eat, drink, chew gum, or smoke cigarettes Certain foods such as pasta, beans, ...
Tonsils are the lumps of tissue on both sides of the back of your child's throat. Tonsils are part of the immune system. They help fight infection. Tonsillitis may be caused by a bacterial or a viral infection. Recurrent tonsillitis is tonsillitis that happens at least 5 times in 1 ...
(a) What is lactation? (b) What are the benefits of breastfeeding? What is the nurse's role in maintaining a culture of safety? What is ADME in pharmacology? What different types of anesthetic are there? Can you give any personal experience, and explain how t...
There are three types of exposures your therapist can guide you through: imaginal, in-vivo, and interoceptive exposures. Imaginal exposureinvolves bringing to mind your obsessions or feared situations. These types of exposures can be writing or recording stories that intentionally trigger your anxiety,...
Named entity recognition is used to perform a semantic extraction of words and phrases mentioned from unstructured text that are associated with any of the supported entity types, such as diagnosis, medication name, symptom/sign, or age.Text...
The hydroxyl groups of these molecules confer antioxidant activity, but they are not the only factors in determining the potency of their activities. There is a single hydroxyl group para-substituted in an aromatic ring that is linked to a side chain conjugate. This substitution allows the ...
This commentary on the article by Shulman et al. examines what we understand by 'medication errors', what we mean by 'computerized physician order entry (CPOE) systems', how we measure errors, and what types of errors we are 'reducing' with CPOE systems. As the research of Shulman and ...
As the word benign suggests, BPH does not indicate severe diseases like cancer or other malignancies. However, it can cause some discomfort, as we will explain below. Figure 1: Enlarged prostate. What are the symptoms of BPH? Enlarged prostate symptoms can be subtle and as a result, remain...
Certain allergies can strike at any time of year. Seasonal allergies, on the other hand, occur at times of the year when certain types of outdoor allergens are predominant. “You can have both,” says Dr. Bassett. And about two-thirds of people with seasonal allergies actually have year...