Limited Access Dressing for Damage Control in Trauma Patients
The leeching effects of the Limited Access Dressing effectively controls infection, promotes earlier physiotherapy, and helps to control secondary damage to trauma cases.
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What Are the Concerns When Taking Care of a Dementia Patient?
Dementia is a condition that can slowly destroy the minds of sufferers. The affliction is often permanent. Diseases associated with dementia include Parkinson's, Alzheimer's and multiple sclerosis. Victims of dementia slowly lose their memory and ability to think. Caregivers provide care and support
How to Complete PSA Mission Avalanch Rescue
"Avalanche Rescue" is a mission available on the online "Club Penguin" game. The mission requires yop to locate and retrieve four lost penguins. Using a machine that requires three items to create, the process for rescuing the animals is simple. You must teleport to several areas in order to acquir
Wound Healing Outcomes: The Impact of Site of Care and Patient Stratificati
A single clinical team working from distinctly different hospital based wound programs achieve consistent outcomes using a uniform clinical approach to wound care
First Aid CPR Practical Checklist
First aid and CPR can be important in many situations.Jupiterimages/BananaStock/Getty ImagesFirst aid and CPR classes teach important skills that almost anyone is capable of learning. Knowing the basics of first aid and CPR could even help you to save a person's life. In an emergency...
Gastrografin in Prolonged Postoperative Ileus
Is gastrografin clinically useful in shortening the duration of prolonged postoperative ileus after elective colorectal surgery?
Tax Breaks for Flood Areas
In 2011, more than half of the United States experienced storms or flooding severe enough to warrant a disaster declaration by the President of the United States. The IRS has programs in place to assist both individual taxpayers and businesses affected by such disasters. The programs include deadlin
Red Cross CPR Procedures
CPR is an acronym for the procedure called Cardiopulmonary Resuscitation. This procedure is used to bring back someone who has stopped breathing and has no pulse. The Red Cross updates the proper technique so it is important to be up to date with training.
Cures for Heat Exhaustion
Heat exhaustion occurs when the body overheats due to hot weather and sun overexposure. Symptoms may include dizziness, fatigue, excessive sweating, headache, pale and clammy skin, nausea and vomiting, to name a few. To quickly combat heat exhaustion before it develops into a more serious case of he
Benchmarking Outcomes in the Critically Injured Burn Patient
This study serves as a benchmark in burn care, comparing interventions, outcomes and mortality among major burn patients.
First Aid Equipment Training
Certain professionals, such as firefighters and hospital workers, are trained to use first aid equipment. For the average citizen to learn to use first aid equipment, the place to go is the Red Cross, an international organization that deals in all types of disaster care and education. There are cha
How to Wrap a Shoulder
Shoulder injuries are common, especially in athletes. They include damage to the rotator cuff, instability in the shoulder joint and inflammation of the shoulder muscles. Each of these injuries causes pain and tenderness in the shoulder, especially when you try to lift your arm or reach above your h
Heat Exhaustion
Heat exhaustion occurs when a person cannot sweat enough to cool the body. It generally develops when a person is working or exercising in hot weather, sweats a lot, and does not drink enough liquids to replace those lost fluids. Heat exhaustion can be caused by loss of fluid (dehydration) or loss o
Specifications for Commercial Hurricane Shutters
Areas that are subject to seasonal hurricanes strongly encourage, and may even legally require, all residents to install hurricane shutters to their windows and glass doors. Commercial hurricane shutters can be made of many different materials, from wood to aluminum. Each option provides a different
Prehospital Care and In-Hospital Treatment in Acute Stroke
How can prehospital assessments impact the subsequent hospital treatment of acute stroke patients?
Which Patients With Chest Pain Can Be Discharged From the ED?
Discharging patients with chest pain is among the most challenging issues facing emergency physicians. Dr. Amal Mattu provides his take on dealing with these patients.
Symptoms of Heat Exhaustion
Heat exhaustion, a mild form of heat stroke, results after a person has spent several days exposed to high temperatures and has not had enough fluids for his needs. If not treated, heat exhaustion can eventually evolve into heat stroke, which can result in permanent disability or death. Learn the sy
Dexatrim Dosing Instructions
Dexatrim is a medication that can be used to treat two primary conditions. With its primary active ingredient phenylpropanolamine, Dexatrim is applied to issues affecting the head and lungs such as sinus infections, colds and allergies. It is also used to help people lose excess weight. You have to
Over-Prescribing of Antibiotics, Imaging in URIs in EDs
What accounts for the overutilization of antibiotics and imaging studies in ED patients with upper respiratory infections?
Mineral Water & Dehydration
To avoid dehydration, drink at least 64 ozs. of fluids each day. Mineral water is a good choice for meeting that goal. Be wary of added sodium or sugar to commercially-bottled mineral water to avoid retaining fluids or consuming too many calories.