Essays on Brain Damage

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Traumatic brain injury is an acquired injury to the brain that results from an external blunt or penetrating force to the head while; intentional hypoxia is the loss of oxygen supply to the brain which leads to a continuum of injury severity. A review of current literature on this topic suggests that comparisons can be readily drawn between traumatic brain injury and hypoxic brain injury in a rehabilitation setting. Even so, diagnosis of hypoxic brain injury and traumatic brain injury is essential in providing guidance on decisions of treatment. Treating intentional hypoxia, however, involves an establishment of the desired ...

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Introduction: For this assignment, I have chosen the topic: Stroke and its prevention for preparing the health information patient hand out. Stroke is a serious health condition and the third leading cause of disability and death worldwide. The handout will help create awareness about the condition in the population at risk. The handout will serve as an excellent source of information on this topic and the user can always refer back to check on this information. Creating awareness and preventing stroke are important as the condition is lethal and causes irreversible brain damage. Most cases of stroke are preventable ( ...

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Carbon Monoxide (CO) Properties and Uses 4

Sources of CO Emission and Toxicokinetics 4

Exposure Limits for CO, Sampling and Analysis 6 Protocols for Industrial CO Sampling and Analysis 6 Carbon Monoxide in Substance Priority List (SPL) 7 CO Contaminated Superfund Site 8 Carbon Monoxide Explosion Case Study with Recommendations 8 References 10 Abstract Carbon Monoxide (CO) is a colorless, odorless gas, which results from incomplete combustion of carbon containing fuels, and has several applications such as effective reducing agent and manufacture of various hydrocarbons. CO is a major indoor air pollutant, and is released when combustion is carried out in confined spaces such as mines ...

Speech Disorders

Formation of speech is one of the basic characteristics of the general development of the child. Speech for the child is the most important means of communication with the outside world, interacting with others, as well as information for the development of cognitive activity and thinking. Therefore, the development of speech is closely connected with the formation of all other mental abilities. Signs of the backlog in the development of speech is a reason for immediate treatment and a visit to the doctor (pediatrician, child neurologist, otolaryngologist, a child psychiatrist, a speech therapist, psychologist). This is especially important, because ...

Does all of the creation have equal rights? Or are some of the Earthlings more valuable than the others? This question has become a deep issue nowadays. While in the past, the moral status of animals was not strongly debated as there were more acute issues at the time, now this issue is rather actual. When the racism and sexism were defeated, and all humans gained equal rights, have not the time come for animals to get these rights? Should animals be given equal considerations of interests with humans? Peter Singer answers with a strong “yes.” He calls the ...

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Traumatic brain injury (TBI) is the bruising of the brain due to an impact received on the head. The brain injury can be termed as primary if its caused directly by the impact blow or secondary if its caused by reaction processes such as swelling due to inflammation. Common types TBI include hematomas, contusions, diffuse axonal injury (DAI), concussion, and coup/contrecoup lesions. The type of injuries are characterized by symptoms such as dizziness, headaches, amnesia, loss of consciousness, going into a vegetative state or a coma or death in extreme cases. There is no clearly defined body of knowledge ...

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The paper will examine the effects and solutions of substance abuse among the teens in America. A brief history of substance abuse in America is analyzed to give the audience the present situation in America. The preceding section involves examining how substance abuse has led to the lives of American teenagers. Drugs cause nausea, liver damage, and malfunctions the damage. In addition, teens that abuse drugs lose concentration, and compel them to miss classes and these results in high school dropouts. American youths under the influence of narcotics are deceived that the crimes may be a potential opportunity to ...

Sport is one of the things that seem totally positive with all its benefits for physical and psychological health, its popularity and advertising campaigns. It has become a part of everyday life of the majority of adults and children. People learn from the early age how to play sport games and it is totally normal in the age of highly popularized healthy living. Parents are happy that schools help their children to actively engage in all sorts of sport and a lot of them encourage their kids to take it seriously or even continue in professional leagues. The information ...

The advancements in modern medicine in the last few decades are responsible for new treatment methodologies in treating deadly diseases. However, there are some areas of the human body that still remain a mystery. The human brain is one of the more complex organs and there is no forseeable outcome irrespective of the infirmity. The medical community faces hard choices whenever they encounter a difficult situation involving brain damage. The chances for recovery from a severe brain damage are slim. Hence, during such times, a hospital staff will request the family for consent to withdraw specific medical treatment or ...

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To begin with, code of ethics for nurses can be contented as being one of the universally and globally agreed set of laws and rules that are internationally applicable to all nurses all over the world. Basically, nurses can be debated as having four significant and essential responsibilities and duties in the medical field: First, they are responsible to ensure that patients, families and communities remain in healthy conditions all the time irrespective of color, age, locality, gender, political background, physical disability, nationality, sex and tribe. In addition, nurses are expected to prevent, avert and obviate illness, sickness, disease ...

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Unconsciousness (not alert condition) and cardiac arrest are closely related kind of disorders that affect the perfusion of blood in the brain leading to the victim being unresponsive to the external surroundings. Unconsciousness is rapid change of the mental state which involves almost total lack of responsiveness to the environment and people; an example is when a person is in a comatose state. Decrease in blood pressure to the brain and reduction of oxygen supply to the organ can also lead to temporary unconsciousness which is regarded as fainting. The common cause for lost of consciousness is traumatic brain injury, severe ...