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Person To Person Blood Transfusion
655 wordsThe purpose of this paper will be too show how AIDS is a serious disease in the world today. AIDS, (Acquired Immune Deficiency Syndrome) is a complicated illness, caused by a virus that is passed from person to person. "The disease was first recognized in 1980 among homosexual men and injection drug users in New York and California. " Several years after it was recognized, AIDS has become a worldwide epidemic. "By 1995, 477, 900 Americans had developed the disease, of whom 295, 500 had died, and...
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Sickle Cell Anemia Sickle Cell Disease
2,028 wordsThere have been many researches and tests done on the genetic causes of Sickle Cell Anemia and how it develope's, as well as its effects on the circulatory, muscular, and respiratory systems, as well as its effects on the joints and other systems of the body, and the complications associated with them. Most of the research has been done to explore on the reasons why it mostly effects the African-American community and people who are from the West Coast of Africa. It has also been known that Sick...
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Bodily Fluids Liver Damage
705 wordsHepatitis is the term given to inflammation of the liver. Hepatitis is most commonly caused by viruses, but is usually accustomed to individuals who drink heavily for a many number of years. Hepatitis can cause your liver to become inflamed, swollen, and tender. If the infection is severe and prolonged without treatment the liver may become scarred, causing cirrhosis of the liver. The complications of hepatitis and cirrhosis are liver failure and cancer. Usually resulting Although there are many...
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Physician Assisted Suicide Terminally Ill Patient
764 wordsPhysician-assisted suicide presents one of the greatest dilemmas tothe medical profession. Should someone who is mentally competent, but deemed terminally ill, be allowed to engaged physician-assisted suicide? According to the First Amendment of The Constitution of The United States, one haste freedom to petition the government for a redress of grievances. The Fourteenth Amendment states, The State cannot deprive any person of life, liberty or property, without due process of law; nor deny any p...
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Effects Of The Aids Virus In 20th Century
1,939 wordsImagine what it would be like to contract a virus that causes the immune system to fail and slowly kill. Try to think what it would be like to have to live each day knowing this disease, which has no cure, is slowly and painfully taking over. Its almost impossible to imagine, but for millions of people in the United States that is the reality they are forced to live with everyday for the rest of their lives. Anyone who has had unprotected sex, a blood transfusion, or has used I. V. drugs is at r...
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Preceptorship Goals Blood Transfusion Care
282 wordsPreceptorship Goals As Im a nursing student and will be doing my preceptorship at a hospital with my preceptor being a Registered Nurse, my preceptorship goals will be as follows: To start as many IVs as possible to enhance my skills in providing competent and compassionate care to adults and children. IV care will include placement and maintenance of PICC and / or midline catheters, peripheral IV insertion, and blood administration, to mention a few; To take part in blood transfusion to enhance...
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Aids Patients Sexual Intercourse
1,584 wordsAIDS, or the Acquired Immune Deficiency Syndrome has been one of the most threatening diseases of the 20 th century. Ever since it has been discovered in 1981, it has been constantly infecting men, women, adults, newly born children, homosexuals and heterosexuals. In definition AIDS is an extremely serious disorder that results from severe damage to the body? s defense against disease. Even though AIDS was born in an era of sophisticated medical and surgical developments, it still remains incura...
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Made A Mistake Blood Transfusion
398 wordsThe material Im discussing in my contemporary issue is a poem called Lost. It is one of many poems from the book My Country. it is about a person being alienated from the surrounding people and hes got a disease called AIDS. Lost is a poem about a person being alienated because he or her has got a disease. It shows the way people treat you differently when youre different to them. The poem describes how this person made a mistake of trusting people and getting a blood transfusion made the person...
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Red Blood Cells Washington D C
1,157 wordsDr. Charles Richard Drew Dr. Charles Richard Drew was a pioneer as a medical physician who made a drastic contribution to the medical surgery practice called the blood transfusion. Even though he was the inventor of the procedure, he did not benefit from it financially and, ironically, died from not getting the very thing he invented. Charles Drew was born in 1904, in Washington, D. C. He was the eldest of five children, Elsie, Joseph, Nora, and Eva. Elsie was born when Charles was two, Joseph w...
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Risk Of Contracting Blood
1,543 wordsThe Safety of Blood A five-year old girl is riding down the street, on her way to her best friend? s house. She doesn? t have a care in the world and is quietly humming to herself. Suddenly a car whips around the corner and swerves to avoid the child, but he looses control and squarely hits the girl, causing the her to fall and get trapped between the car and her battered bicycle. A main artery in her leg has been severed and blood fills the gutter of the street. As she gets rushed to the hospit...
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