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How to Measure What Matters Most in Your Life and Career

The CRNA Chase

So today, Iā€™m going to show you how you can measure what matters most in your life and career so you can get into CRNA school on the first try and it only takes a few minutes. So what does that mean exactly? Read: How To Become a CRNA: Complete Step-By Step-Guide Watch Full Video on Facebook The benefits of assessing CRNA school readiness Well, basically it means taking an assessment of areas or things needed to get one step closer to being a CRNA.

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Baroreceptors Reflex (Carotid Sinus Reflex)

Cardiac and General Anesthesiology

This reflex results in regulation of blood pressure, especially if it is highly elevated or severely depressed; however, the reflex is usually elicited in systolic blood pressures over 150ā€“170 mmHg; the other part of the reflex is not often seen when the systolic blood pressure is below 50ā€“60 mmHg. However, in patients with underlying hypertension or atherosclerosis or in the elderly, the reflex thresholds might be altered, and at times, the reflex would not be seen partially or totally.

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A Day in the Life of an Ambulatory Nurse

EARN Cares

Ambulatory Nursing: A Day in the Life Good morning! Yesā€”you heard this correctlyā€”this is a nursing role that has day shift hours! Ambulatory nursing is a vast area of nursing that includes many environments from primary care provider offices to laser clinics and more. Types of Ambulatory Nursing Ambulatory nursing may seem hard to define as it encompasses many different types of outpatient care and each may offer different services.

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What Is Hormone Pellet Therapy?

Trocar Supplies

Medical management of hormonal disturbances is clinically challenging. Many patients benefit from subcutaneous implanted pellet therapy that provides continuous, predictable release of supplemental hormones that cannot be taken orally or that are not otherwise easy to manage. What Are Hormone Pellets? Hormone pellets are time-release capsules of synthetic and bioidentical hormones for replacing deficient hormones in men and women.

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Bainbridge Reflex

Cardiac and General Anesthesiology

Bainbridge reflex was described first in 1915 by Francis Bainbridge (English physiologist, 1874ā€“1921). He discovered and demonstrated that ā€œsaline or blood infusion into the jugular vein of the anesthetized dogā€ would result in reflex tachycardia. This reflex is also called the ā€œatrial reflexā€ and involves increased heart rate in response to dilation of ā€œthe main systemic veins, left and right atrium.

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Classification of Antiplatelet Agents

Cardiac and General Anesthesiology

Based on their mechanism of action, the Antiplatelet Agents could be classified as follows: Salicylic acid family including aspirin and triflusal. Aspirin is an irreversible cyclooxygenase inhibitor (inhibition of COX-1 and COX-2 activity). Triflusal (DisgrenĀ®) is a salicylate, which blocks cyclooxygenase and phosphodiesterase and also preserves vascular prostacyclin.

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