A survey of the recent strategies for the dietary control of diabetes in the Middle East INTRODUCTION Significant changes in the political and socio-economic climates have been the hallmark of the last decade in the many of the countries in the Middle East especially those located in the territories of the Arabian Gulf. These changes…
Methods for Postoperative Hypothermia Rewarming
Lauren E. Boyd and Letitia Hedges Abstract Perioperative hypothermia has the potential for multiple adverse effects and must be taken seriously to effectively treat and prevent harm to surgical patients. This review’s objective focuses primarily on postoperative hypothermia and the specific interventions needed for rewarming or raising core body temperature within the normal range. The…
Ethical Decision Making in Smoking Cessation
According to University of California, School of Medicine (2010), Autonomy is the “personal rule of the self that is free from both controlling interferences by others and from personal limitations that prevent meaningful choice.” Although Mrs. Cheng is a cancer patient with only one month to live, nowhere is mentioned that she could be of…
Mobile Radiography Procedure Reflection
Introduction: I will be reflecting upon my experience of a mobile radiography procedure using the ‘John’s Model of Reflection’. This framework allows the person to identify what they want to achieve using a series of five questions before entering the clinical environment and from the outcomes that meet or did not meet certain standards; an…
Complications Of Skeletal Traction Health And Social Care Essay
In the last two decades, there have been major changes in the management of lower limb long bone fractures, surgical management has become the norm. Skeletal traction is now rarely used as the definitive form of management. Most of the patients admitted to our hospitals have skeletal injuries, and these patients have prolonged length of…
Nutrition and the Healthy Ageing Process
With the European region having a huge aging population, the continent experiences a huge life expectancy among its people. As time passes, many countries in Europe experience huge populations of older people. The long life expectancy has a negative effect on most individuals since they suffer from disability and ill-health towards the last fifteen to…
Breastfeeding: Advantages and Disadvantages
This essay is potentially vast in its scope as the advantages and disadvantages of breastfeeding can vary enormously depending on which authority one chooses to consult. (1) We shall therefore take an overview and present the generally accepted arguments in this area. There is a substantial evidence base for the benefits of breastfeeding for not…
Evaluating School-Based Life Skills Training to Prevent Smoking
Background/Significance According to research, cigarette smoking is detrimental to the human body being linked to causing multiple chronic conditions including heart disease, bronchitis, and chronic obstructive pulmonary disease (USDHHS, 2014). Ninety percent of smokers have begun smoking before the age of 19 with an estimate of more than 400,000 premature deaths annually (Centers for Disease…
Social Communication Interventions for Individuals with Traumatic Brain Injury
In the scope of acquired disorders there are multiple treatment approaches and intervention that utilize restorative and/ or compensatory strategies to help the individual attain a higher quality of life. Many acquired disorders treatment approaches focus on interventions for cognition, language, social communication, dysphagia and physical deficits (Papathanasiou & Coppens, 2017).These treatment approaches can be…
Impact of Nutrition Transition on Food and Nutrition System
IMPACT OF THE NUTRITION TRANSITION ON FOOD AND NUTRITION SYSTEM OF INDIA Student: Thara Baby Akshai Babu 1.0 INTRODUCTION One of the largest food producing country in the world is India (Singh et al, 2012). But 21% of the total population is under nourished (Singh et al, 2012). About 300 million people struggle for meeting…