Perforation Essays

  • Evaluating the Procedure of Double-Gloving for Protection

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    (Guo, 2012). This study fouses more on nurses instead of surgeons. They also focus more on glove perforation as opposed to sensitivity and dexterity. Guo states that “the purpose of our study was to assess the effectiveness of double-gloving in protecting perioperative nurses from having contact with patients’ blood and body fluids during surgery by comparing the frequency of glove perforation between single-gloving and double-gloving groups” (Guo, 2012).

  • The Pros And Cons Of Hydrocarbon Recovery

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    a resource play rather than an exploration play. This paper serves to examine the prospect of using a single perforation cluster as opposed to multiple perforation clusters within a single stage. Institutively speaking, the usage of multiple clusters is thought to result in a h... ... middle of paper ... ...f pathways to promote hydrocarbons flow, by increasing the number of perforation clusters within a single stage of a play, we risk reducing the initial gas rate and overall gas recovery due

  • Hydraulic Fracking History

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    Hydraulic fracturing aka “fracking” is the mechanical process that uses fluids and other macro sized materials to create small fractures in the shale and bed rock under surfaces of the earth. The fractures, usually no more than an inch wide, allow the highly pressurized oil and natural gas to flow freely to the pipe to the pumped back to the surface. The first known commercial use of hydraulic fracking first came about during the 1940s but dates all the way back 1865 during the Civil War. To increase

  • Liposuction and its Uneccesary Dangers

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    can sometimes leave the body disproportional; coupling procedures, such as a breast reduction, with liposuction allows the plastic surgeon to ma... ... middle of paper ... ...untable, and can face a malpractice lawsuit, for causing a visceral perforation because he or she was not careful enough, made a mistake, or tried to perform something blind, causing the patient to get more complicated procedure, and possibly die. Liposuction, like all cosmetic procedures, are typically non-emergent and are

  • Persuasive Essay On Abortion

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    of many women in Tennessee. Girls and women struggle with this decision daily. Actually, “3 out of 10 women in the U.S. have an abortion by the time they are 45 years old” (“Abortion Information”). [List] “Pelvic Inflammatory Disease, Uterine Perforation, Placenta Previa, Pre-term Delivers, Handicapped Newborns, Ectopic Pregnancy, Cancer, and Death” (“Abortion Risks: A List of Major”)-These side

  • Acute Diverticulitis

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    On my third day of clinical course I had an African America patient age 72, female, a retired high school teacher who was admitted for an Acute Diverticulitis with Perforation. She is diabetic and had a medical and surgical history of diverticulitis, High Cholesterol, Non-Insulin-Dependent Diabetes Mellitus (NIDDM), Hysterectomy, and Scoliosis. She has been on clear liquid diet since she was admitted then she was Nothing by Mouth NPO for the CT scan for that day. When I got the assignment that I

  • The Anatomy of the Appendix

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    2004). It was not until 1711 that the first account of appendicitis was reported and then verified in an autopsy of a criminal (Prystowsky, Pugh & Nagle, 2005). In this account, appendicitis was described as a gangrenous appendix with a small perforation. Today, appendicitis is deemed as an inflammation of its inner lining that has the ability to spread to its other parts. Interestingly enough, the cause of appendicitis remains unknown, as over half of the cases of appendicitis remain elusive, but

  • Otitis Media Case Study

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    Acute OM without perforation involves fluid build up in the ear, as well as a bulging tympanic membrane from a pressure build up inside the ear (Williams, 2003). Acute OM with perforation involves a pussy discharge coming out of the ear, which means that the tympanic membrane has been perforated (Williams, 2003). OME is when no symptoms of an ear infection are present, and there is no perforation of the tympanic membrane, only constant redness and inflammation

  • Brick Dimensions Of Brick

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    at peak strength: 11%, Mean Tensile Strength: 0.17MPa Strength of EMR autoclaved bric... ... middle of paper ... ... thermal transmittance can be minimized by 1. Avoiding thermal bridges in the brick, and arranging void perforation in quincunx 2. Extending the perforations of void in tongue and grooved area (Tongue and groove is a method of fitting similar objects together) and thereby breaking the thermal bridge. 3. Providing a small gap in the assembly, to improve the bricks conductivity.

  • The True Risk Which Abortion Involves abortion argumentative persuasive

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    Women under 20 experience a 2 times greater risk of medical complications than for women aged 25-29 (CJPH 73 (1982): 396-400). 1 in 24 (4.1%) have experienced immediate medical complications. (These have included severe bleeding, infection, perforation of the uterus, and part of the baby being retained.)(CJPH 73 (1982):396-400. 150% greater risk of cervical injury than for women over 30 years of age(NEJM 309 (1983):621-4). Women who've had a previous abortion 200% increased risk of miscarriage

  • Understanding Flexible Sigmoidoscopy: Procedure and Indications

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    Flexible Sigmoidoscopy: What to Expect? By Jonas Wilson, Ing. Med. Flexible sigmoidoscopy, carried out at a hospital or outpatient center, is a procedure that allows visualization of the rectum and sigmoid colon. Indications for this procedure include screening for cancer and in patients who report rectal bleeding and any associated symptoms such as abdominal pain, weight loss and/ or changes in bowel habits. FS can illustrate bowel pathologies with regards to polyps, ulcers and inflammation

  • Cholecystitis

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    housing of a gallstone in the cystic duct almost always causes both forms. This occlusion produces the gallbladder to become enlarged and inflamed. Pressure against the distended wall of the gallbladder decreases blood flow. Ischemia, necrosis, and perforation

  • Cultural Significance Of Tattoos

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    Westerners. The aesthetical value of Eastern tattoos make them a very popular tattoo category. Tattoos are made by perforating the skin, or even allowing for a small cut to be made into the epidermis of the skin and then inserting pigments into the perforation or

  • Inflammation and Infection Caused by Diverticulitis

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    Dovirtocalotos os en elomint uf thi culun thet efficts thi onnir lonong. Appruxometily 50% uf ell Amirocens woll ixpiroinci dovirtocalotos by thi tomi thiy riech egi 60. Puachis ur balgong secs on thi lonong bicumi onflemid ur onfictid. Thi must cummun soti uf dovirtocalotos os thi lergi ontistoni. A luw fobir doit os biloivid tu bi rispunsobli fur must cesis uf dovirtocalotos. Smell poicis uf ficis cen bicumi treppid on thi puachis end balgong secs, whoch thin ceasi thi onflemmetoun end/ur onfictoun

  • Gastric Ulcer

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    inside the lining of the stomach. It occurs when the protective lining in the stomach stop working and breaks down. Most ulcers occur within the first layer of the stomach lining, when the ulcer goes all the way through the stomach it is called perforation and it is a medical emergency. The most common cause of gastric ulcer is an infection caused by bacteria called Helicobacter pylori (nlm.nih.gov/medlineplus) and people that are infected with H. Pylori have a 30% increase of getting stomach cancer

  • Benefits and Downsides to the Double Gloving System

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    procedures if surgeons were required to double-glove. To double-glove, or not to double-glove, is a much more complicated question than a study of viral presence on healthcare workers’ hands can answer. It is a more complicated question than data about perforations in single-glove vs. double-glove systems can answer. Future research should examine this issue from an epidemiological perspective, and from an administrative perspective. Additionally, it will be beneficial to further explore the impact that double-gloving

  • Cholesteatoma: Causes, Symptoms, and Diagnosis

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    or tympanic membrane perforation. It can develop beyond the tympanic membrane and cause intracranial and extracranial complications. Due to this patients can experience permanent hearing loss as a result of an infection of the inner ear as well as other serious health concerns. These include dizziness, facial nerve weakness and infections of the skull (Hall, 2013). Patients may present chronically discharging ear, hearing loss, dizziness, otalgia (ear pain), and perforations (marginal or attic).

  • Pros And Cons Of Double Gloving

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    W, Kohnke E, Twomey C. Influence of Double-Gloving and Tactile Sensation of Surgeons. Journal of American College of Surgeons. Vol 210. No 3. 2010. Guo Y, Wong P, Li Y, Or P. Is double-gloving really protective? A comparison between the glove perforation rate among perioperative nurses with single and double gloves during surgery. The American Journal of Surgery. Vol 204. 210-215. 2012.

  • Strength Of Restorative Materials

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    the MTA is placed under occlusive pressures, such as when MTA is used as pulpotomy material or direct pulp coating or forcal perforation repair. In such cases, the flexural strength of the MTA should be greater than the strength of the amalgam condensation to prevent the fracture of the MTA. Considering the clinical applications of MTA and other suitable materials in perforation repair, the bonding strength of these materials is an important factor in providing a suitable and optimum seal between the

  • The Environmental Impact of Off-Shore Oil Exploration and Production

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    Introduction The extraction of oil onshore has been ongoing for several decades. Offshore oil extraction is a process that began decades after onshore exploration had begun. For many years, scientists and the oil companies were certain that the exploration and production of petroleum from deep-water formations would not incur any sort of environmental damages. Several decades later, scientists learned new information from monitoring programs and research studies that offshore drilling did cause