Energy production in the heart

Energy production in the normal healthy heart depends principally on oxidative phosphorylation, as glycolytic metabolism is capable of generating no more than 5% of the ATP that is required for normal contractile performance (264). As a result of this strong dependence on oxidative metabolism, increases in cardiac activity require an almost instantaneous parallel augmentation of … Read more

Ethics – nursing case study

Ethics are standards of behaviour which nurses act on when caring for patients (Tschudin, 1986; Edwards; Holland et al, 2008, Kozier et al, 2008. Conflict between ethics and moral dilemma is enshrined in the NMC (2015) code ethics their role as nurses and duty to the patient who want to know the truth and the … Read more

Anti-NMDA Encephalitis

While reading the first part of Susannah’s memoir, I thought that she did a great job at illustrating the progression of her symptoms and their effect on her life and relationships. One part of her experience that stood out to me was way some of the doctors and technicians handled her diagnostic process. On one … Read more

Intravenous cannulation in pre-hospital care

This essay will be evaluating intravenous cannulation in pre-hospital care. Intravenous cannulation (IV) is a clinical skill used in pre-hospital care, where a small catheter is placed into a vein, allowing for direct access into the cardiovascular system (Scales, 2008). IV cannulation plays an important role in the pre-hospital setting, as it provides clinicians a … Read more

Treatment of Asthma

Section 1: Pathophysiology of Asthma According to Austen (2013), asthma is best defined as ‘a disorder characterised by reversible bronchospasm with wheezing, the symptoms occurring in short-lived paroxysms’. Primarily, the lungs and airways are effected by asthma, particularly the bronchial smooth muscle, which undergoes contraction (ibid). Asthma can further be described as a limitation in … Read more

Spirituality and nursing

Spirituality is at the core of nursing professional identity (Hensel & Laux, 2014). It was reported that nursing students perceived high personal levels of spirituality (Shores, 2010). However, it is essential to include spirituality in nursing curricula to meet the demands of the profession (Wallace et al., 2008), as nursing students experience stress to meet … Read more

Sociology in healthcare

Overtime, sociology has played an essential role in the aid of healthcare policies and procedures, along with playing a fundamental role in one’s understanding of health inequalities. This paper explores how sociology has played such a role in healthcare, whilst including discussions regarding the influence of social structures and inequalities in the health of an … Read more

Apotemnophilia phenomenon

Paste your essay in here…To have informed consent, patients need to be in possession of relevant facts and also of their reasoning faculties. A mental disorder such as body integrity identity disorder would imply that one lacks their reasoning faculties. Inability to make rational decisions due to lack of consciousness or the inability to think … Read more

Personal statement – medic

In a universe so vast and unpredictable, the chance of me being here is infinitesimally small. Appreciating the rare chance of life that I have been granted has lead me to make the very most of it and use it to better the world and those around me. This is why I want to be … Read more

Clinical features and outcomes of IPI

This is the first study which described the clinical features and outcomes of IPI in pediatric LSBPTx recipients in a large pediatric multivisceral transplant cohort in the United States. The risk of developing IPI in our cohort was in line with previous report in renal transplant (asplenic) patients (1% per year) in the early years … Read more

Sickle Cell Anemia

Introduction to Disorder: Sickle Cell Anemia is a disease in which someone carries abnormal hemoglobin (Hemoglobin S). Hemoglobin is a protein in red blood cells responsible for carrying oxygen throughout the body, however when people produce Hemoglobin S, it causes the red blood cells to distort into a crescent shape and become fragile, this interrupts … Read more

Managing pain by distraction: an effective method in both healthy subjects and fibromyalgia patients

Pain is the primary reason for people to visit a doctor (Mantyselka et al., 2001). Pain is defined as “an unpleasant sensory and emotional experience associated with actual or potential tissue damage, or described in terms of such damage” (Merskey, 1986, p. 210). It is functional as it warns us of potential damage to our … Read more

Salivary gland malignancies

In the last twenty years, the management of salivary gland malignancies (SGMs) has evolved significantly. Intensity modulated radiation therapy, aggressive facial nerve preservation, and microsurgical free tissue flap reconstructions have become de facto standards of care [11] as results of more refined preoperative imaging, surgical techniques, and radiation protocols [6]. Nevertheless, patient outcomes have not … Read more

Tuberculosis

Context: Brief Introduction of Tuberculosis Tuberculosis (TB) is a disease caused by the bacteria Mycobacterium tuberculosis. It can affect the brain, kidneys or spine, but most commonly affects the lungs. It is an airborne disease, meaning that it is spread through the air from an infected person to another person. Before the introduction of antibiotics, … Read more