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ALCOHOL ADDICTION
Alcohol Addiction
Alcohol Addiction
Introduction
Alcoholism is a chronic, frequently progressive and sometimes fatal disease marked by impaired control over alcohol use despite adverse effects from its consumption. Dependence on alcohol, tolerance of its effects, and remissions and relapses are common. Psychological features include preoccupation with alcohol use and denial of ...
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Anaesthesia
Anaesthesia
Introduction
Local anaesthetic can be defined as a drug which reversibly prevents transmission of the nerve impulse in the region to which it is applied, without affecting consciousness. There are many drugs which exert local anaesthetic activity in addition to their main clinical uses, but this tutorial will focus on those ...
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Heart Disease and Heart Attacks
Introduction
A heart attack, known in medical terms as an acute myocardial infarction, refers to the death of heart tissue following the rupture of atherosclerotic plaque in the wall of a coronary artery that causes a blood clot to block the flow of blood and supply of ...
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Alzheimer's disease
Introduction
Alzheimer's disease is an incurable degenerative disease of the central nervous system characterized by progressive loss of mental abilities (memory, speech, logical thinking). The risk of developing Alzheimer's disease increases after age 65. Despite the fact, that relatively few people suffer from this disease is a major cause of ...
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Childhood Celiac Disease
Childhood Celiac Disease
Celiac disease, also known as gluten-sensitive enteropathy is a condition where a person's immune system makes antibodies to gluten (Mahan & Escott-Stump, 2008). It is an inherited disease and many cases remain undiagnosed because symptoms mimic many other gastrointestinal conditions. Only about three percent of people ...
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Yoga
Introduction
Yoga is an Indian philosophical theory, a series of mental and physical exercises such as Yama, Niyama, Asana, Pranayama, Pratyahara, Kriya, meditation and asceticism covers. The term Yoga can both association and integration mean, and in terms of harnessing and tightening of the body to the soul to the collection ...
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THE DOCTOR-PATIENT RELATIONSHIP.
The Doctor-Patient Relationship
The Doctor-Patient Relationship
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The special nature of the relationship between doctor and patient has been appreciated since antiquity (Laín Entralgo). As much a part of sickness and medicine as the diseases that make people ill, this relationship makes a sick person a patient and a medical ...
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PATIENT SAFETY
How Patient Safety Can Be Improved Through Simulation?
How Patient Safety Can Be Improved Through Simulation?
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Patient safety is crucial for the healthcare professional as this will help them to deliver quality services. Lindquist, Gleason, McDaniel, Doeksen & Liss (2008) mentioned the fact that caring for patient increases the level ...
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MEDICINE AND HEALTH
Nursing and its Responsibilities
Nursing and its Responsibilities
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With Medicine, accountability is an important aspect especially since handling of patients is a risk with many new nurses and staff. The Nursing and Midwifery Council holds staff personally responsible for their actions with respect to nursing duties, hence as a professional, ...
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MENTAL HEALTH NURSES
Mental health Nurses Can Empower Service Users
Mental health Nurses can empower service users
Introduction
With the beginning of the new century, in spite of excessive policy reforms and good practices; empowerment of services users of mental health nurses is still a minor activity. This is however, acknowledged as good ...