Research Topic – “Childhood Issues; effects of obesity

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Childhood Issues, with the approach of reporting current research associated with the effects of obesity and how research identified the negative outcomes of childhood obesity.

The finished product for this assignment will be a double-spaced,8–10-page-paper (not including title page, abstract, and references) addressing your chosen topic.You must include at least 8 relevant journal articles in your paper.At least 5 articles must be empirical* and recent (written within the last 5 years unless the citation is linked to an author whose work is seminal to your topic). This paper must be written in a scholarly fashion, strictly adhering to current APA standards.Do not express your own opinion.
You must use the following guidelines in constructing your research paper:
• Title page
• Abstract page
• Introduction must define and discuss the importance of your topic.
• Body of paper must organize the topic in a meaningful way and critically review the current empirical knowledge base relevant to your topic. The paper must synthesize findings which address:
• Implications of considering diverse populations
• Implications of crisis/trauma-causing events on the topic under investigation
• Implications of resiliency
• The implications of neurobiology
• The integration of at least one developmental theory
• Conclusion section must include a discussion of practice/policy implications/recommendations and future research directions.
• Reference page must list at least 5 primary empirical sources.
• Follow current APA Publication Manual organization and style guidelines.Points will be deducted for format violations and grammatical problems.
*Reports of empirical studies summarize original research.Many journal articles are reports of empirical studies.In order to learn how to review the literature, it is important to be able to read and understand reports of empirical studies.Empirical articles have the following sections: abstract, introduction, method, results, discussion, and references. The Research Paper that you are writing is a literature review based upon empirical studies; therefore, your paper will not have methods, results, and discussion sections as they would appear in an empirical paper.

Interpret and apply theories of surgical asepsis, infection control and patient safety related to the perioperative environment.

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Requirements of this assignment- Please follow the below instructions.
The assignment does not have to be written in essay format, but should use complete sentences, Integrated summary splint system
. Reference must be used to support the answers you provide- In Harvard style with page numbers in the in text reference.
. Word length 1500 – not including the reference list.
. Reference list numbers minimum 15. Use only American, British or Australian only.
. Assessment Rubric is attached – which is the marking criteria
. Article attached (splint system)
Learning outcome: –
1. Analyse and apply principles of ethics, statute and case law to the perioperative environment.
2. Interpret and apply theories of surgical asepsis, infection control and patient safety related to the perioperative environment.
3. Apply concepts of anatomy and pathophysiology to patient management during pre- operative, intra-operative and post-operative phases of general and endoscopic surgery.
Assessment criteria: –
Thoroughly evaluates the non-technical skills audit and considers the importance of non-technical skills during surgery;
Critically analyses and evaluates the discussion within the summary paper, and incorporates relevant literature;
Integrates the paper well and refers to attached appendices within the body of the paper;
Writes clearly and succinctly in an appropriate academic style (presenting work in accordance with SNM Presentation of Assignments guidelines) with correct referencing (SNM Harvard Author-Date system in

Describe the most probable reasons for John’s acute exacerbation.

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The following is a case study with four questions. You are required to respond to all four questions. Response to each question should not exceed 250 words and the length of the entire assignment is 1000 words.
Assignments are due at midnight. Any assignment submitted after midnight NT time incurs a
10% penalty per working day i.e. 10% penalty is incurred 5 minutes past midnight for every day it is late. After five days (taken from midnight) the assignment receives a ‘zero’.
Case study: John is 73 years old with COPD. He is prescribed tiotropium bromide daily and salbutamol 2 puffs as required. He uses his salbutamol several times per day and his tiotropium as prescribed. His wife died 5 years ago and since then he has not been taking care of himself very well; he is no longer active and doesn’t like to go out too much.
He presented to hospital with his daughter as she was concerned about him. She states that over the last 8 days he has experienced an increase in his symptoms; he had a fever, was increasingly breathless, and was coughing up green phlegm. She states that he had been increasingly irritable and not attending to his meals or personal care as he was too breathless. He had seen his doctor 4 days ago who had started oral amoxicillin for 7 days and had advised him to return if it did not get any better. The doctor also indicated that he should return once he was better for his influenza vaccine. She reported that this was the third time in the last 12 months that she needed to take her dad to the doctor or emergency department for a flare-up of his breathing.
Physical examination revealed decreased breath sounds throughout both lung fields with bibasal crackles, tachypnoea (ventilatory rate: 32 breaths per minute) with accessory muscle use, temperature 37.9°C, pursed lip breathing, tachycardia (heart rate: 116 beats per minute), oxygen saturations of 84% and anxiety. Spirometry was performed in the emergency department; his FEV1 was 44% of predicted, his FVC was 106% of predicted and his FEV1/VC ratio was 0.41.
An urgent arterial blood gas was performed, which revealed mild hypercapnia PaCO2 (48 mmHg pH 7.35) and hypoxaemia (PaO2 78 mmHg). Oxygen prongs were applied at a flow of 2 L/min and he was administered prednisolone and salbutamol via the pressurised metered dose inhaler and large volume spacer.
Questions
1 Describe the most probable reasons for John’s acute exacerbation.
2 Describe why the arterial blood gas revealed respiratory acidosis as it relates to COPD.
3 Differentiate between the pathophysiology of upper respiratory tract infections and asthma.
4 List the medications used to treat COPD

Staining Helps Identify an Infectious Agent Case Study

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A 94-year-old woman went to her local hospital emergency department in mid-November 2001 complaining of a 5-day history of weakness, fever, nonproductive cough, and generalized myalgia (muscle aches). Otherwise, for a person her age she was fairly healthy, although she did suffer from chronic obstructive pulmonary disease, hypertension, and chronic kidney failure.
 
On physical examination, her heart rate was above normal and she had a fever of 102.3°F
(39.1°C). The rest of her physical examination was normal. Initial laboratory studies of blood cell count, blood chemistries, and chest X ray were also normal except for the chemical urine testing. This finding along with the fever suggested an infection, so the patient was admitted to the hospital. Samples of blood and urine were sent to the microbiology laboratory and set up appropriately.
 
The next day, microscopic evaluation of the urine culture revealed rod-shaped bacteria that stained red, and the blood culture revealed rods that stained purple. The liquid blood culture was then transferred to appropriate solid media. This finding in the blood was unusual, so a sample culture was sent to the state health department laboratory. Antibiotic therapy was adjusted, yet the patient’s condition deteriorated. Her most serious symptoms localized to her chest, and she was transferred to the intensive care unit. Four days after admission, the health
department announced that the bacteria found in the patient’s blood were Bacillus anthracis.
She was suffering from inhalation anthrax. Further testing showed these bacteria to be of the same strain that had been involved in the recent bioterrorist attack. Despite treatment, the patient died on the fifth day after admission.
 

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