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Anorexia Nervosa Cardiac Arrest
1,295 wordsKaren Anne Carpenter was a famous singer / drummer. She is part of a brother / sister duo. Karen was unhappy with her appearance. She started eating less and exercising more. She used laxatives and over the counter drug to vomit. Around 1975, her anorexia became severe. She was constantly under the public eye. In 1983, she died from Cardiac Arrest due to anorexia. She died in her parent house in Downey, CA. There is no single cause for eating disorders. It may have occurred because of Social pre...
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Anorexia And Bulimia Eating Disorders
1,931 wordsEating disorders are sweeping this country and are rampant on junior high, high school, and college campuses. These disorders are often referred to as the Deadly Diet, but are often known by their more popular names: anorexia or bulimia. They affect more than 20 % of females between the age of thirteen and forty. It is very rare for a young female not to know of someone with an eating disorder. Statistics show that at least one in five young women have a serious problem with eating and weight (B...
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Website N P Cardiac Arrest
906 wordsThe Importance of Learning CPR The average person may think he is able to perform CPR, but mastering this vital skill can save a life. What is CPR? CPR is an abbreviation of cardiopulmonary resuscitation. According to Nemours foundation Website, CPR is a combination of rescue breathing (mouth-to-mouth resuscitation) and chest compressions. Why is this skill so important? When a person cannot breathe or a persons body cannot circulate blood adequately, cardiopulmonary resuscitation can restore ci...
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Terminally Ill Assisted Suicide
2,623 wordsDying With Dignity Coping with death is an extremely difficult and individual problem, both for a sick dying person and for people around. This situation is very special, and it is always in close relation with many individual variables: psychological, emotional, social, ethical or moral, etc. For example, in some cases doctors consider it to be morally better not to inform the patient about his or her extremely bad conditions and high probability of lethal end. So, the last days of such person ...
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Coronary Artery Disease Coronary Heart Disease
5,798 wordsINTRODUCTION In todays society, people are gaining medical knowledge at quite a fast pace. Treatments, cures, and vaccines for various diseases and disorders are being developed constantly, and yet, coronary heart disease remains the number one killer in the world. The media today concentrates intensely on drug and alcohol abuse, homicides, AIDS and so on. What a lot of people are not realizing is that coronary heart disease actually accounts for about 80 % of all sudden deaths. In fact, the num...
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High Blood Pressure Low Self Esteem
2,343 wordsBulimia Eating Disorders Eating Disorders Bulimia is an illness characterized by uncontrolled episodes of overeating usually followed by self-induced vomiting or other purging. Alternative names for Bulimia are Bulimia Nervosa, Binge-Purge Behavior, and also Eating Disorders. In bulimia, eating binges may occur as often as several times a day. Induced vomiting known as purging allows the eating to continue without the weight gain; it may continue until interrupted by sleep, abdominal pain, or th...
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Cardiac Arrest Life Time
558 wordsThe Longman dictionary of American English defines life as, the force that enables us to continue. Life in my eyes is the interval of time between birth and death. Throughout life you will be placed in situations, and put to the test of time. There will be times when you are joyous, and times when you are sorrowful. This is the period of trial and tribulation. Face the fact life is hard. Being an adolescent, a person is premature to the world. The value of an inexperienced adolescent is meaningl...
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Cardiac Arrest Blood Pressure
434 wordsThe resuscitation after severe hemorrhage is a very delicate process which involves many biological factors with a very small time window. To successfully revive a victim of severe exsanguination, one must work quickly within the golden hour time limit. In this time period, there are various trauma that must be avoided; cardiac arrest, hypotension, hemorrhagic shock, and hypothermia to name a few. This article encompasses the current technology for resuscitation as well as future possibilities f...
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