Essays on Medical Therapy

The high percentage of death in intensive care unit is always attributed to the withdrawal of life support machine. In Australia, research shows that a significant proportion of deaths that occurred in the intensive care unit preceded a decision supporting the withdrawal of the life support and this is a case in many countries across the globe including Australia. Withdrawal of life support refers to the process of discontinuing critical care treatment for a patient who is terminally ill, and the decision can be made by the family, government or doctor (Way, Anthony, & Curtis, 2002). The family can make ...

Psychotic disorders are the result of complex and diverse violations of activities of the various systems of the human body with a primary lesion of the brain (Goldberg). One of the most popular psychotic disorders is schizophrenia. Schizophrenia is a mental disorder manifested by typical personality changes. In the clinical picture of schizophrenia it is possible to identify structural disturbances of thinking (for example, autistic thinking and delusions), emotional abnormalities, the phenomena of depersonalization, deceptions of perception (hallucinations), and a number of other violations (Goldberg). Schizophrenia is more than one disease, this is a group of psychoses united by ...

In the recent past, governments through the health department have been calling for the increase in outpatient services among health care facilities considering that payers have come up with incentives as a way of reducing hospitalization charges in addition to the length of stay. As a result, a new shift oriented towards payment for performance and accountability in health care provision has emerged in addition to health organizations concentrating on medicine for preventive health, educating of patients, and care changes. Today, the most affordable medical therapy is offered in ambulatory care setting, yet the outcomes of adverse drug events ...

Heath care ethics and law are disciplines with overlapping concepts. However, each discipline has an independent parameter and distinct focus. Clinical ethics is defined as a methodology for considering the moral inferences of medical technologies, treatments, and policies with extraordinary to determine what must be done or avoided in the delivery of health care (Corning, 2009). Thus, each profession has adopted a code of ethics to regulate the conduct of its members. A code of ethics set up by a profession body, upholds a particular image in public (Mahar, 2013). On the other hand, the law is defined as ...

The importance of percutaneous coronary intervention (PCI) as an integrated intervention for persistent coronary occlusion after myocardial infarction seems to have little indication of any improvements or positive benefits in the long term. When integrated with optimal medical therapy and stent placement there is little indication that in deed PCI affords the patients a higher chance of regression of coronary atherosclerosis (Hochman et al., 2006). In this regard, optimal medical therapy alone indicated significant benefits with particular reference to significant regression of coronary atherosclerosis for any period past the three years upon initiation of PCI. This in some sense ...

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Diabetes is a significant problem in health care. The problem is growing significantly as worldwide populations are getting older and more obese due to a variety of reasons. The paper reviews current pathophysiological and treatment literature regarding the treatment of diabetes. It focuses primarily on gut hormones and the physiological effects they produce in the disease as well as on surgical methods of diabetes resolution that has varied pathophysiological bases. Novel ways of treatments do not always have fully elucidated rationales for how they work, as bariatric surgeries may have multiple effects on the pathophysiology of the disease and this must ...