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The ECG machine is a complex device that records the characteristic spread of electricity through the heart during each cardiac cycle (Davey, 2008). The 12-lead ECG machine has 10 cables, which attach...
The skin is the largest organ in the body and there are two main divisions; the outer epidermis and deeper dermis. The epidermis is made up of five layers of cells. The dermis is divided into two main...
Mrs Green was diagnosed with transverse myelitis in 2015 which resulted in the formation of a colostomy and a urostomy. Transverse myelitis is a rare neurological disorder that occurs when the spinal...
Between 1 November 2016 and 31 December 2017, cGvHD patients attending for ECP were supplied with a handheld peak flow meter (Mini-Wright, Clement Clarke), educated on how to accurately perform peak...
‘To live independently and participate fully in all aspects of life … [including] access, on an equal basis with others, … to information and communications, including information and communications...
Psoriasis is a complex disease with numerous risk factors and a multifactorial inheritance pattern. Approximately one-third of affected patients have a first-degree relative with the disorder,...
Alcohol is a teratogen that has a toxic effect on the developing fetus (BMA, 2007a). FASD is seen as a non-diagnostic umbrella term (Riley et al, 2011; Nash and Davies, 2017; Blagg and Tulich, 2018)...
An initial search of two databases, CINAHL and PubMed, sourced 309 articles. Keywords included ‘delirium’, ‘acute confusion’, ‘intervention’, ‘nurs*, ‘patient’’, ‘preoperative’, ‘intraoperative’...
The wide variation in malignant ulcers adds to the complexity of establishing a clinical diagnosis. As such, a methodological approach to skin ulcers can provide clues suggestive of a malignant...
‘Role pressures associated with membership in one organization are in conflict with pressures restricting from membership in other groups.’ .