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| treatment and prevention of diseases related to blood. |
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| physician who specialized in the diagnosis and treatment of pulmonary lung conditions and diseases. |
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| doctor treating and preventing diseases of the heart and blood vessels. |
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| identification of the an illness or other problems by examination of the symptoms. |
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| emergency room for shortness of breath |
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| excess of watery fluid collecting in the cavities or tissues of the body. |
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| fluid build up between lungs and chest |
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| lung inflammation caused by bacterial or viral infection in which the air sacs fill with pus and may become solid. |
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| deficiency of red blood cells or of hemoglobin in the blood, resulting in pallor and weariness. |
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| the process of transferring the blood of a person into the veins of another. |
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| shows the heart's electrical activity as line tracings on paper. The spikes and dips in the tracings are called waves. The heart is a muscular pump made up of four chambers . |
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| activities of daily living |
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| disturbed state of mind that occurs in fever, intoxication, and other disorders and is characterized by restlessness illusions and incoherence of thought and speech. |
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| Resident Assessment Protocols |
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| disorder of the mental processes caused by brain disease or injury and marked by memory disorders, personality changes, and impaired reasoning. |
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| Neonatal abstinence syndrome is a group of problems that occur in a newborn who was exposed to addictive opiate drugs while in the mother’s womb. |
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| heart failure in which the heart is unable to maintain adequate circulation of blood in the tissues of the body or to pump out the venous blood returned to it by the venous circulation—compare coronary failure. |
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| condition that occurs when the heart muscle is weakened. In this condition, the left ventricle, which is the main heart muscle, is usually enlarged and dilated. This condition can be a result of a heart attack or coronary artery disease, a narrowing of the arteries. |
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| Prothrombin time (PT) is a blood test that measures the time it takes for the liquid portion (plasma) of your blood to clot. A related blood test is partial thromboplastin time (PTT). |
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| needed or as the situation arises. |
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| Shortness of breath, a subjective difficulty or distress in breathing, usually associated with disease of the heart or lungs |
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| gastrointestinal, referring collectively to the stomach and the small and large intestine. |
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| medication giving by needle into muscle |
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| delirium tremens; duration of tetany. |
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| inserted through the abdomen that delivers nutrition directly to the stomach |
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| cardiopulmonary resuscitation. It is an emergency lifesaving procedure that is done when someone's breathing or heartbeat has stopped. |
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T An essential amino acid, which is a key building block in protein biosynthesis. It is a precursor for serotonin
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| pupils equal react to light |
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| affecting the right and left sides of the body or the right and left members of paired organs |
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| part of the chest that lies between the sternum and the spinal column, and between the lungs. |
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