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97Complications related to chronic weeping edema of lower extremities
. The simplest way to explain edema is to say that edema is the left over fluid from the blood your heart pumps every day. This is erroneous because heart failure is just one diagnosis that can have the...
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94Simple Wound Care Instructions Step by Step
Wet to dry dressing changes can be a very effective form of autolytic debridement for wounds with over 50 % slough and soft tissue that is pulling from the healthy tissue. However, although it is an old form...
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89Avatar: What is it, Where Did It Come From and Is it a Good Thing?
Avatar, smazatar, where doth thou goest sweet avatar? Goeth thou to my head or in my bed shall I line my bowls with you at my head? And if thou prove to be less than sweet may I ask you to hold me ...
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90The Story of The Seven Sisters
The Story of the Seven Sisters There are several versions of the same myth. Depending on the research and your own personal preference the information actually remains pretty much the same. In a nutshell,...
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88How To Calculate Drop Rate per Minute for an IV Without Using a Pump
In this high tech world, a lot of nurses, especially the youngest, do not know how to count drops per minute for intravenous fluid and or medication. It used to be fairly simple; the physician orders 1000 ml...
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86To Vaccinate or NOT to Vaccinate, That is the Question!
Funny you should ask!!! As a twelve year old in the early 1960's my older sister, Mary, and I had charge of the last two youngest of five children in our family. My little sister,Becca, was nearly two years...
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87What Do John Wayne Western Movies Tell Us?
Are the western movies just another form of entertainment? Specifically John Wayne movies. Was there any deep meaning behind any of them? Who are we to try and find a hidden agenda or deep meaning between a...
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88What Do You Really Know About Shingles?
What Do You Really Know About Shingles? 080809 1. Shingles is caused by the chickenpox virus TRUE_______FALSE_______ 2. Shingles is contagious TRUE_______FASE________ 3. Shingles may reoccur but...
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91A Brief Look At Plastic Surgery Through the Ages
The History of Cosmetic Surgery dates back to the Greeks. The word plastic is from the Greek word plasticos for "to fit or mold" and this still a part of the mission of plastic surgeons today. They are...
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82Ode To First Aqaurium Owners
This wish for an aquarium seems overwhelming.Should it be a ten or even a fifty-five gallon?Should the front be straight or bending?Or perhaps the stands show its filters or look like a million?When you...
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