Scopolamine is a prescription medication usually prescribed in the form of a transdermal patch. It is used to prevent symptoms associated with motion sickness, including nausea and vomiting. It has several other clinical uses as well. Scopolamine is commonly prescribed before travel on ships and airplanes when motion sickness is anticipated. This paper will explore several studies that have identified specific actions of scopolamine, including its effect when used at sea, its effect on cognitive
physician, poisoned him with Atropine and Scopolamine. In Nathaniel Hawthorne’s book The Scarlet Letter, Dimmesdale’s guilt appears to be the cause of his death, but his symptoms point towards Atropine and Scopolamine poisoning. In The Scarlet Letter, all the symptoms Dimmesdale experiences provide evidence that he is poisoned with Atropine and Scopolamine. The action of gripping hard at the breast leads readers to believe that Dimmesdale is poisoned with Scopolamine and
legislation requiring regulatory controls on Datura Stramonium and its alkaloids. Although atropine, hyoscyamine, and scopolamine data are reported to the National Forensic Laboratory Information System (NFLIS), a DEA database, it is undetermined if the source was from Datura Stramonium or another botanical species. In 2011, there were 37 atropine reports, 16 hyoscyamine reports, and 3 scopolamine reports from Federal, state, and local forensic laboratories. Anticholinergic plant poisonings reported American
I received a call from my fellow partners about the case. The suspect had died when i received him. However, there was something extremely weird about the death of my patient. He did not just die from being shot, there was more to the bullet that met the eye. It was from there i decided to identify what exactly the bullet had been laced with, and how our patients death came to be. The first steps that were taken was the identification process. A urine sample was obtained. An LC-MS test was performed
Animal studies play a major role in understanding human behaviour as it provides an insight into human behaviour. Although, such studies raise multiple ethical considerations. In any research study conducted, benefits versus risks must be considered and if the benefits are not great then the risk is usually unjustified. The two ethical considerations that will be focused on in this essay are the irreversible damage and invasive procedures used on the animals and the stress induced on them during
On September 1st, I have been given the assignment to assess the death of Arthur Dimmesdale, one of the main characters in Hawthorne’s novel, The Scarlet Letter, taking place in Boston, Massachusetts around the mid-1700s. Dimmesdale, an eloquent and young minister, has committed adultery with a young married woman named Hester. While Hester undergoes punishment and humiliation as she conceives Dimmesdale’s daughter, Pearl, Dimmesdale keeps his relationship to them a secret and constantly feels guilty
Fear conditioning is a commonly used behavioral paradigm to test an organism’s ability to create associations and learn to avoid aversive stimuli. There are two methodologies: cue and contextual fear conditioning (Kim & Jung, 2006). In cued fear conditioning, a neutral conditioned stimulus (CS) is paired with an aversive unconditioned stimulus (US) which activates a strong unconditioned fear responses (UR). After a continued training period, the neutral CS is now able to activate a conditioned response
diffusion. It is rapidly absorbed from GI tract, subcutaneous tissues and metabolized largely destroyed in body. Physostigmine is the antidote for atropine poisoning. Currently, physostigmine salicylate is used for glaucoma, Alzheimer’s disease, scopolamine, and myasthenia gravis. FDA only approved the treatment of Glaucoma for the adults. In addition, in the case of poisoning, FDA approved Physostigmine for both adults and pediatrics.
Twilight sleep was introduced with the combination of morphine, for relief of pain, and scopolamine, and amnesiac that caused women to have no memories of the child birth process. The upper-class women initially welcomed it as a symbol of medical process, although its negative effects were later published. “Dr. Joseph Lee describes childbirth
Vaslav Nijinsky was a famous Russian ballet dancer born around 1889, and died in 1950 whose career ended because of his recurrent psychological problems. Nijinsky started early on his career and sustained homosexual relationships to his benefit in various occasions, but later married Romola in a to South America, with whom he had two children, Kyra and Tamara (Acoella 1999; Fearne, 2009). The onset of Nijinsky’s illness is not clear, and may have been a contribution of specific environmental factors
As early as the mid 1800s, women were choosing to give birth less with traditional midwives and began seeking the care of doctors. Childbirth often ended in mortality, of the mother and more often, the baby. Women in the middle and upper classes doubted the training of midwives. Doctors received formal training and were believed better suited to care for the challenge of childbirth. Medicine was embraced and encouraged by anyone that could afford it. Doctors were seen as a status indicator and midwives
Explain how one principle of the biological level of analysis may be demonstrated in one empirical study or theory Biological Level of Analysis (BLOA) deals with biological adaptations at a biological level. BLOA states that cognitions, emotions and behaviours have a physiological basis to all of them. There are 3 main principles that revolve and outline the BLOA. Foremost, Behaviour is innate, as it is genetically based, so it rational to conclude that behaviour is genetically influenced by evolution
A strange film, a strange film indeed. It's quite amazing that director Julie Taymor was even able to get this thing distributed by a major movie studio, despite how flawed an experience it is. In fact, about half of the film just flat out does not work, however the half that does work is simply magical. The threadbare story, which is really just a vehicle for masterfully-staged musical segments, follows Jude, a young dock worker from Liverpool who journeys to America in search of a father he never
Atropa belladona: The Deadly Nightshade What might a person bothered with intense gas, or flatulence to be blunt, do in today's society? Perhaps they would visit a type of "health food store" for a type of common natural remedy. Often, the mangers at such stores recommend that comphrey tea be taken to relieve the problem. However, after taking just such a concoction of the tea powder and water, one man became light-headed, agitated, confused and had problems urinating. His pupils became dilated
“Short fiction seems more targeted – hand grenades of ideas, if you will. When they work, they hit, they explode, and you never forget them. Long fiction feels more like atmosphere: it’s a lot smokier and less defined.” — Paolo Bacigalupi. A notable, original story is organized and has tis literary elements woven into the very fabric of the story, hence allowing the reader's mind to become a part of the plot and deeply envision it, and classic instances of this are the two stories, The Most Dangerous
In Ancient Rome, the health of the people depended greatly on their surroundings. Since there was limited action that could be done to treat and cure illness, the people of Rome were required to be aware of the risks of illness so that they could maintain their health. Although the Roman people did not have the utensils that we have today, the Romans used all of their given resources to treat and cure what they could. Due to the lack of modern day technology and equipment, Ancient Rome’s wellness
evolution came different usages of this drugs. Later on in the year 1922 for the first time in history these drugs were used for police investigation. Robert House, a Texas based obstetrician did an experiment with two prisoners where interviewed two scopolamine-induced prisoners, whose guilt seemed clearly confirmed. With this came the historic case of aurora massacre where for the first time the judge ruled that to prove the wrong-doer’s insanity a medically appropriate drug would be used. This may be
Since the father of lies deceived Eve in the Garden of Eden man has been telling lies and other men have been trying different ways to detect the truth. Some of these ways of detecting the truth were crude but they were the pioneers to today’s polygraph test. A heated dagger placed on the tongue determined the amount of saliva in the speaker's mouth. Supposedly, the more saliva, the greater likelihood the speaker was communicating the truth. The ancient Hindus demanded those accused of lying
EVIDENCE-BASED PRACTICE 9 Nurses must, at all times, put the wellbeing of the patient at the forefront of care PONV is an undesired side effect of anesthesia. About 10% of all surgical patients will develop postoperative nausea and vomiting (PONV) (Tinsley & Barone, 2012). It is the nurse?s responsibility to do everything in his or her power to alleviate patients enduring nausea and possible vomiting after surgery. A crucial first step in evidence-based practice (EBP) is converting information
Without surgery and advanced medicine in the 21st century, many lives would be lost to preventable medical conditions and infectious disease. If one was to ask every person who walked down a street in an hour time period, most would say they have had some type of surgery in their lifetime. Surgery has evolved since prehistoric medicine. Looking at surgery from before the common era, research has turned to sources such as skeletons, cave painting, or artifacts (Dobanovacki, et al 28). Trephination