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79The Code Blue Blues
Working as a critical care nurse will certainly grant one the opportunity to witness a code blue. One night in the Pediatric ICU, a three month old baby was flown in by chopper due to respiratory distress. Me...
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78Before You Assume Someone's Drunk
Can you save a life by knowing the signs of illness like diabetes that mimic drunkenness? Do you know that someone could be mugged and left badly injured - yet be ignored and left to die because we assume that person is drunk? Does a person who has consumed too much liquor in is a very vulnerable situation deserve any less care than a sick person? All these people need your help!
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79Disability Dating & Sex
Disability Dating Internet Dating sites are booming and Disability Dating sites are too! Unfortunately, the two wars in the Middle East have added approximately 21,000 injured and disabled to the population....
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71Cerebral Palsy Tests
Trying to diagnose cerebral palsy is very difficult. Cerebral palsy has many of the same signs as other conditions. So what doctors do is run many tests and that way they are able to rule out other...
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76Loving a Disabled Sibling
This is the story of my sister who happens to be handicapped and how much I love her.
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71Types of Cerebral Palsy
Cerebral Palsy is a neurological disorder that appear in infancy or early childhood. The majority of children with cerebral palsy are born with it, although it may not be detected until months or years...
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64couses of spasticity
couses of spasticity: Traumatic brain injury and Spinal cord injury: · Direct Damage to Motor Cortex:In common practice, direct damage to the motor cortex is most often due to an episode or prolonged...
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73Cerebral Atrophy
I just got home from taking my Mother in law to the ER. She was disoriented and hallucinating at her home earlier this evening. After they ran a few tests they found out that she has Cerebral Atrophy. It is...
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78Causes, Symptoms and Types of Cerebral Palsy
When the term cerebral palsy is used, many times people think of a very specific thing that is easy to see and identify as the condition. The reality is that while a person's body can be affected by...
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71Spastic Diplegia: A Form of Cerebral Palsy
Affecting the upper and lower parts of a person’s body is called spastic diplegia. Spastic diplegia is a type of spastic cerebral palsy and at times is called Little’s Disease. Spastic diplegia is...
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