Posted by Ann Brown | March 10th, 2010 in Burns Care | No Comments »
Burns are always accidents associated with carelessness and improvidence. To avoid burns taking into account the following recommendations:
§ Do not leave children unattended in places where there is fire (cooking, space heaters, fireplaces)
§ Do not leave containers on the floor with boiling liquids.
§ Do not let the reach of children hot irons.
§ The handles of pans should be placed toward the wall.
§ Do not leave flammable within reach of children.
§ Do not leave burning candles or shining at night when no images and saints this at home.
§ No tank or gasoline stoves alcohol when they are burning.
§ Do not stoke the fire of fires, fireplaces and barbecues with flammable substances.
§ Do not let children play with matches, cigarettes or lighters.
§ Never let children handle fireworks.
§ In case of thunderstorm not protected under the trees.
Other recommendations of the Colombian Red Cross:
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Posted by Ann Brown | March 8th, 2010 in Burns Care | No Comments »
Burns are a specific type of soft tissue injury and its adjacent structures, produced by physical, chemical substances, radiation and electrical current. The severity of the burn depends on the temperature of the medium that cause and the time he was the victim exposed. Another serious factor is the location of the lesion in the body, length, depth, age and health status of the person.
1. Physical Agents:
* Plates or stoves, coal or firewood.
* Boiling liquid (water, oil, soup, etc.).
* Vapor
* Llamas
* Cold (temperatures below zero)
2. Chemicals:
* Oxidants (sodium hypochlorite)
* Acids (hydrochloric, sulfuric, acetic)
* Caustic (soda, lime, potash)
* Corrosives (phosphorus, sodium metal)
* Adherents (tar, neme)
3. Electricity:
* Electric shock with different voltages
4. Radiation
* Sun Rays
* Infrared
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Posted by Ann Brown | March 6th, 2010 in Nursing In Alzheimer | No Comments »
Recent studies have shown that between 40 and 50 per cent of patients with depressive mood, and 10 to 20 percent, symptoms of depression. The deterioration appears to be greater in cases in which Alzheimer’s disease is associated with depression.
In patients in whom depression is primary, concerned only with the active cognitive processes that require a volunteer effort of the patient. In contrast, Alzheimer’s disease, the disorder is widespread and affects both active processes such as automatic. Through a series of psycho-neurological tests are divided into cognitive impairment in both conditions and thus contribute to a more accurate diagnosis.
With regard to treatment of disease, use medications to improve intellectual function. These drugs, called cholinesterase inhibitors, increase levels of acetylcholine, which helps to restore communication between neurons. Ténica are also used in psychotherapy.
Experts recommend that patients maintain regular contacts with family and friends continue their intellectual pursuits.
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Posted by Ann Brown | March 4th, 2010 in Nursing In Alzheimer | No Comments »
The duration of the Alzheimer’s disease may be 8 to 12 years. In the first 2 to 3 years, symptoms are subtle and the disease may go unnoticed. The most important risk factor is age, since the brain, over the years, is presenting structural and functional changes. Y-neurons-nerve cells are very sensitive to the effects of aging, then, over time, modifying the quantity and form. In fact, after 50 years of age, you lose about 5 percent of neurons for 10 years.
Specialists believe that there are genetic factors that increase the risk of this disease which affects about 4 million people in the United States amount is estimated, will amount to 14 million within 40 years.
Currently, the certainty of the diagnosis of Alzheimer’s disease is about 85 percent, and only confirmed by postmortem analysis of the patient’s brain.
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Posted by Ann Brown | March 2nd, 2010 in Fitness and Physical Activites | No Comments »
A broad and strong torso contributes greatly to the impressive image and muscular symmetry, to develop harmoniously all the muscles that are part of the rib cage is therefore essential to achieve this.
Of the wide range of fitness movements, the pull over is one of the most complete exercise for opening the chest and make it bigger. With this exercise mainly works the chest, but they also become triceps, serratus anterior and latissimus dorsi muscles that determine the extent of the torso.
However, its realization is not easy and we need to know well the execution technique to prevent injuries while exercising.
First we must look at our back, and prevent bowing of the same while we perform pull over, something very common if we do not focus on technique.
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Posted by Jutawan Terkenal | February 28th, 2010 in HIV and AIDS | No Comments »
HIV infection occurs when an individual moves to another a sufficient amount of virus. The virus is found mainly in people infected blood, semen, vaginal secretions and breast milk. Can be transmitted to others through wounds, punctures, sores in the skin, vaginal or anal mucosa mucosa.
So we know that the most common routes of transmission are:
- The penetrative sex without a condom with infected people, both same and different sex.
- Share syringes, needles and other instruments in the injecting drug use.
- Pregnancy from an infected woman, the child may be born with HIV because the mother can pass to her child during pregnancy, childbirth or breastfeeding. The frequency of transmission of 1 in 3 or 4. Some of these HIV-positive babies are due solely to the mother’s antibodies and can become negative by 15 months. Those who do not become negative develop the disease of AIDS.
- The serum derived transmission today is invaluable for the rigid health checks.
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Posted by Jutawan Terkenal | February 26th, 2010 in HIV and AIDS | No Comments »
The HIV antibody test ELISA (Enzyme-immunosorbent).
Absolute CD4 lymphocyte count (less than 200 in case of illness).
PCR for HIV.
The test for HIV infection in an individual was created with a technique of “ELISA” (enzyme-linked immunosorbent assay). It is done in a few hours and is very sensitive in identifying HIV-positive. Most commercial tests are compared for their quality and reliability with a more sophisticated technique called “Western blot” that characterizes each marker to improve its performance.
Also performed the cell counts to determine the involvement of the immune system, and since 1995 he began to develop a technique (PCR, English acronym Chain Reaction Polymerase) that can measure the amount of HIV virus in the blood , which in turn is a reflection of the amount of virus that exist throughout the body.
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Posted by Jutawan Terkenal | February 24th, 2010 in HIV and AIDS | No Comments »
In applying PCR for HIV frozen blood samples from 10 or more years before he saw people who had very few viruses (viral load low) only 10% had developed AIDS, while people who were very much virus (high viral load) tests had developed AIDS and died mostly. Were available until 1995 a series of drugs called Reverse Transcriptase Inhibitors Viral (Retrovir, Videx, HIVID) which, individually or in combination. had a powerful little effect, and also about HIV transient, making delay the onset of AIDS in an infected person maximum 2 years if used in the delayed phase of AIDS death in 1 or 2 years.
This is because the virus can become resistant to these drugs because this changing (mutating) every time they played (replicates), of course, those who have large amounts of virus have higher rates of replication (and resistance) and the prognosis is worse than in the case of having few viruses. He was also with the previous drugs was achieved on average by 10 or dividing by 50 the amount of virus in the blood, which, in someone who had. for example, 300,000 viruses per milliliter, Read the rest of this entry »
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Posted by Jutawan Terkenal | February 20th, 2010 in Alcohol and Drugs Abuse | No Comments »
Excessive drinking, combined with poor nutrition, can lead to liver and heart disease, impairment of the nervous system and severe damage to the brains (Korsakov’s disease). The national platform of Korsakov, psychologists are concerned about the growing number of young patients-Korsakov. “It used to be a disease of people between forty and seventy years. Today comes to us in many thirtysomething. ”
It says drs HM Slingeland, Korsakov, psychologist and member of the Atlant Care Group in Apeldoorn. “Young people are a big risk, especially the boys and girls every weekend and drink a lot of hamburgers and live in the holidays with dozens of liters of alcohol to under sail. The danger is that they live this way much bad food and drink well beyond the holidays. A number of young people so you can expect them to term increased risk of Korsakov. ” How many patients Netherlands-Korsakov at the precise moment counts, Slingerland can not say. “The figures range from the thousands to ten thousand. It is a wide margin. It appears difficult for a national picture. The increase is evident, but not to support with hard numbers. In the home situation and the homeless circuit is still very much hidden. ”
Professor Verbaten Korsakov’s syndrome can not be earlier than average in the fortieth year of life are diagnosed. “To get Korsakov, you must make it very fur. Usually detected at an older age, usually following a lengthy career alcohol. That does not mean that alcohol consumption by young people is harmless. Young people during four weekly one years or more than fifteen glasses drinking alcohol, damaging their brains with all the associated risks to their cognitive abilities. I suggest this is without the ability to contain many health ailments. Thus it increases the risk of esophageal cancer by twenty percent or more. “
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