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Tuesday, May 25, 2010

Why is it contraindicated to aspirate syringe and massage site during heparin injection?


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Heparin , an anticoagulant is to be injected into the fatty layers via subcutaneous( sq). A short needle a Tuberculin syringe can be used. Do not aspirate and do not massage site . Heparin interferes with the conversion of prothrombin into thrombin; prevents the conversion of fibrinogen into fibrin = inhibits clots. Aspirating and massaging defeats the purpose. It causes damage to the tissues and causes additional bruising. Clots or hematomas can be formed by the action.
You don't massage it as it can cause increased bleeding under the skin and bruising. Best thing is to inject into subcutaneous skin and leave it alone. There's no need to aspirate unlike insulin - it's ok for heparin to enter the blood stream.

Why is hyperventillation dangerous?

I've used hyperventillation many times before, but nothing happens to me. Then I hear it is dangerous. I wonder why.
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Your body must have a certain level of carbon monoxide to stimulate the respiratory center in the brain in order maintain a respiratory function.That's controlled by the "autonomic" nervous system.When you hyperventilate you blow all your CO2 out and the the O2 blood levels go way up,and it acts like a toxin and decreases the ability to have a normal breathing cycle,and you gasp and pant very shallow breaths.In order to stop that cycle,you must breathe into a paper bag for several minutes,breathing in the CO2 needed to get the brain's respiratory center back in its natural rhythm.Take care SW RNP
if you are referring to the use if it in diving, it is because of the possible disorienting effect of elevated oxygen levels. You realize that people pass out from hyperventilation right? There is a reason for that. It is the body's defense mechanism used to restore breathing to normal levels. Passing out when diving is usually a bad thing.
Sharon got it pretty much right, other than it's carbon dioxide (one carbon molecule, two oxygen molecules) not monoxide:-)I can also point out that when swimmers hyperventilate it is to lower the carbon dioxide levels in the blood. When you hold your breath, it isn't the lack of oxygen telling you that you need to breathe again, it is the INCREASING carbon dioxide levels in the blood. Hence, hyperventilation increases the time between holding your breath and your brain's respiratory centre telling you to take another breath.
you cant get enough oxygen to your body to allow gas exchange to occur. i hyperventilate when i cry and if it lasts long enough i begin to feel dizzy.

Why is everyone so much against smoking?

Even the government is making laws.People are being lead down the wrong path when they blame smoking and second hand smoke on just about every respiratory illness out there.It's the pollution in the air you people.Do you honestly believe my puffing on a cig outside is going to make you sick? While you stand beside a belching bus or a running car?Come on ... really!!If they are so bad why don't they ban selling them.Or why not ban food because so many people are obese and draining the health care system.They are making a big deal out of smoking so you will get your mind off the real issue of bad air. 75% of people live in cities, it not my smoke thats killin ya it's the air you breath every day 24--7 not the 10 min. it takes me to smoke a cig!
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I flat out agree with you...I wreckon its is totally wrong that its took all this time for the tabacco companys to tell us what actually is in the smokes that i have been inhaling for 16 years.If its so poisoneous it should be illegal to sell them and smokers should have a right to sue the government for getting addicted to all the toxins and poisons that they have been feeding us for years..When I started smoking there was never a health warning or anything on the cigarette packets.
How long and how healthy do you want to live.
I knew a guy, not that old who, through smoke induced poor circulation, had lost both legs and one arm.
Yes he still managed to hold a cigarette in his only remaining limb and smoke. He's dead now of course. Aawwww. There is absolutely no positive aspect to smoking.
And I suspect that you are a creationist and a flat earth believer as well.
We lived in the suburbs where pollution isn't so bad and my mom smoked every day. She really only just lit the cigarette, put it on the edge of the ashtray and puffed on it once in a while when she did her housework. She used to say all the things you've said above. She used to say, "Mind your own business! My one cigarette every few hours isn't making a bit of difference to the atmosphere. And I WILL NOT get cancer! I would know and FEEL it if my lungs were damaged!" One day, when I went over to visit, she asked me who it was that I brought with me. I said, "I'm here alone!"She said, "No! There's a girl in the living room who came over with you! I saw her come in behind you. Who is she?"She was hallucinating; an effect caused by high levels of toxic carbon monoxide in her blood stream. We took her to the ER and they said her lungs were so bad from smoking over the years that she had chronic emphysema for one thing ... and for another, her lungs were NOT breathing out the carbon monoxide and THAT'S what causes halucinations when it backs up into your bloodstream ... and then you die.She died a few weeks later. The last thing she said to me before lapsing into a coma was ... "Why didn't you make me stop smoking?" I could never MAKE her do anything.The government doesn't want to tick off the mega-billion dollar food industry by banning food and even the tobacco industry is very powerful so they can't be banned either.Quit smoking. Do it now so, in a couple of years, you won't be lying on your death bed asking someone who loves you, "Why did you let me smoke until I ended up in Intensive Care? Why didn't you stop me?"
The smell of smoke is gross, and it gets in your hair and clothes, and if your a non smoker you can taste it if you kiss a smoker. Why not do a search on the net on the pro's and cons of smoking, and have a look at what the cigarette chemicals does to your body. There has many chemicals identified in a cigarette as causing cancer, chemicals such as benzene, arsenic, cadmium, radioactive polonium-210 and formaldehyde to name a few. Check the links below and have a look at the chemicals that have been identified in cigarettes, the list is staggering.Any one for a cigarette?I have no problems with people smoking, it their choice. However I do object if I am trying to eat, and smoke is wafting into my face, or some smarty pants who deliberately blow smoke in my face (earns the blower a punch in the face).
If you choose to smoke, that's your business. If you choose to smoke inside a public facility, that's everybody's business. I'm thankful that people have taken a stand and said enough is enough. My right to breath smoke-free air was infringed upon long enough!
Because they have direct links to the tar and other pollutants Some of us have problems in the country where maybe 5 cars pass in a day Still have emphysema Children die from second smoke and newborns, They now believe that SIDs is from second hand smoke
mrsmay my friends nicknamed me smoke detector, the minute I step outside and breathe in smoke I start coughing, not just coughing but choking and gasping for air, hardly able to breathe, its not pollution becuase i could have my eyes closed and when i suddenly start coughing theres always a cigartte in sight, it causes my lungs to burn, and makes it hard to breathe, do you seriously believe it doesnt do any damage, and what about damaging to yourself? my grandfather died from smoking. Every smoker should be likened to a sucicde bomber they are not noly killing themselves but those aroud them, not the innocent bystander that passes them once but people they sepnd a lot of their time with
if you dont believe me since i'm not an expert and cant offer proof call the american lung association at 800-586-4482 and tell them what you wrote here lets see what they think about it all
much to be aired out here. if all you did was go to a forest, sit down and smoke a ciggie, i'd say fine. do the harmful things to your bod that medical studies say and know to be true. but i cant stand being some place and having cigarette smoke waft over my meal, or assault my nose. and like the other person said it causes clothes and hair to smell, breath to smell, fingers and teeth to stain, beats me why a person wants that to happen to themselves. now as for your other complaint, i agree, air purity is a extremely serious issue. our government tends to put the burden on the individual with so many infringements into the life of the nations citizenry. fossil fuels are to blame for most air quality problems. consider the combustion engine which has been spewing out oxides and ozones ever since it first burned the intial drop of gasoline. then add to that the huge factories which burn fossil fuels, coals, and other carbon based products for longer then cars have been around. this is over the last century and the bulk of the burn has been in metropolitan (populated) areas. so do i believe cigarette smoke is the etiology of all respiratory illnesses to be found in al the people of the world, no, just mostly in the people who smoke. the world has a immense atmosphere, maybe right now it is only 10% polluted, probably much more then that, but at what % will anyone decide that to much pollution exists and take a fighting stance to change the world attitude about it. right now its all lip service, votes, and money. someday it will be gas masks, controlled environments, and regrets.
You're in denial..Smoking has been proven to be harmful to everyone that inhales the smoke from smoking. Also, It stinks, and it makes your clothes stink.and it makes my eyes burn, it burns down homes(people who fall asleep with one burning), did I mention that it stinks?
I agree. I think that society is going out of their way to complain about smoking. I have been smoking two packs of cigarettes a day for about five years now, and haven't had any smoking-related problems. Maybe I'm just lucky, or maybe there aren't any smoking-related problems. How can doctors differentiate between damage done by smoking versus damage done by breathing in the air around us. It is absolutely ridiculous how people are so against smoking.Then people complain about the smell. Come on people. There are so many other horrible odors in the world, why not complain about those. Smoking has no effects on a person's health, so go ahead and smoke away. Make other people deal with it.

Why is every commercial always breast and not about lung cancer it seems like that's all that is talked about

my grandmother had lung cancer never drank or smoked a day in her life she died within 8 mos, it has just been a year and i miss her everyday my kids will never get to know there great grandmother.
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I have often wondered this myself. It seems like breast cancer gets all the attention. Don't get me wrong, I think that what they are doing for breast cancer is amazing and a great thing, I just wish the other cancers would get as much publicity and attention.My mother died of lung cancer about 4 years ago. This cancer is vicious and kills so many. I don't think people undersand how many it affects and that it is killing so many people each year! FYI
~Lung cancer is known as the silent killer
~November is national lung cancer month (never seen anything done for it but it is there)
~A white or clear ribbon is the color for lung cancer
~More people die from lung cancer each year than any other cancer
~In 2003 lung cancer accounted for more deaths than breast cancer, prostate cancer, and colon cancer combined
~Among men in the United States, lung cancer is the second most common cancer among white, black, Asian/Pacific Islander, and American Indian/Alaska Native men, and the third most common cancer among Hispanic men. Among women in the United States, lung cancer is the second most common cancer among white and American Indian/Alaska Native women, and the third most common cancer among black, Asian/Pacific Islander, and Hispanic women.You would think with these statistics, lung cancer would be getting some serious attention!
the number of people with breast cancer is higher than the number of people with lung cancer. also, it seems more people are getting breast cancer than lung cancer. experts still arent sure what causes lung cancer besides smoking and certain chemicals. they know what causes breast cancer, so they are spreading the word about what they know, not what they dont know.
idk, but they have more ppl in breast cancer thats y they have adds saying to donate money, to help it stop spreading. they have fewer ppl in lung cancer.
Have you ever heard, "follow the money"? Breast cancer research is like the 2nd largest Industry in the world. Cancer is cancer and wherever it can find an open receptor cell it will take hold to divide and conquer. You will never hear from the medical establishment of a way to stop cancer, 1- because they'd put themselves out of work, 2- because they spend a lot of advertising dollars so the advertising giants aren't going to want to have their cash cow butchered. Fortunately more and more people are learning how to support their body's immune system so they can stay well so they do not have to be a customer of the cancer industry. You know the old saying?- an ounce of prevention is worth a pound of .
I KNOW WAT U MEAN!! my aunt rose had lukemia and thats almost never mentioned!

Why is dependence on some drugs okay but not others?

Do not confuse "abuse" with "dependence." Most folks think it's no big deal if they take anti-depressants, cholesterol lowering drugs or high-blood pressure medications every day (dependence). But as soon as someone says they take Xanax or Valium or Vicodin everyday, there's a whole different attitude about it.
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Firstly, dependence/addiction are very broad sweeping terms.
According to the world health organisation physical dependence basically is physical adaptions that have occured in the central nervous system due to regular use of a drug/medication/substance and difficulty stopping or reducing dose due to withdrawal symptoms.
Psychological dependence can mean reliance on a psyhotropic drug drug to cope with everyday life or it can include using the drug to become intoxicated and or high. It also includes craving the drug.
Dependence is the medical terminology for what the general public is more familar with as addiction. Both dependence and addiction are wide sweeping terms.
Cholesterol drugs DO NOT fit the criteria for dependence/addiction. People do not get withdrawal symptoms from them. They don't use them as mind altering drugs to cope with everyday life and don't use them to become intoxicated.
Antidepressant drugs can cause tolerance/withdrawal symptoms and people can rely on them to cope with everyday life but they lack abuse potential. Xanax and vicodin can cause withdrawal symptoms, can cause abuse, can cause people to rely on them for everyday life.
Abuse is one of the criteria for dependence but not an essential criteria.
The drug companies, particularly in america have tried to seperate dependence from addiction in the media and medical journals but this is so that they can call their products non habit forming and non addictive (even though many people can't stop antidepressants due to withdrawal symptoms). It is about money dude.
If you think about it now with this propoganda the pharmaceutical industry is putting out, if dependence is different to addiction, then cigarettes are completely non addictive and non habit forming. Think about it tobacco use is not associated with dosage escalation, abuse to get high or intoxicated etc. Ya catch my drift dude. It about the money. Thank God the World Health Organisation talks sense.
Xanax is a brain frying drug anyway. It is a benzodiazepine and extremely addictive. Research benzodiazepines and see what those drugs have doen to peoples lives, many of whom were just following doctors instructions. Benzos are controversial drugs for a reason.
All drugs are not alike. Some drugs, such as aspirin, are milder than others. Many drugs are mind-altering, and therefore more dangerous. It is always best to have a doctor monitoring your useage, including over-the-counter drugs.

Why is combination therapy the treatment of choice for aids?


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HIV develops resistance to antiretroviral therapy very quickly. Using multiple drugs helps prevent the development of resistance. The current treatment protocol is known as Highly Active Antiretroviral Therapy (HAART) and uses a cocktail of nucleoside reverse transcriptase inhibitors, protease inhibitors, and possibly a newer class of drugs fusion inhibitors. Each class inhibits a different aspect of the life cycle of HIV. The likelihood that HIV will develop resistance to more than one class of drug is very low.

Why is cocaine called "crack"?


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cocaine is not called crack. Crack is a purified form of cocaine that is "cooked" by the user, usually in a spoon with a lighter or candle, and using ammonia as a liquid base. The end result of this "cooking" is know as crack, and is a totally different high than cocaine. Cocaine is usually sniffed up the nose whereas crack is smoked through a pipe-2 totally different things with totally different results. I personally liked doing them both-for different reasons.
coke is cooked with baking soda to remove all the imourities and it hardens then it is crack
Coke and Crack are totally different things sweetheart.
Crack is called so because of the 'crackling' sound it makes when smoked.

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