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    The clatter of china surrounded the small group of adults, small talk traded between too-bright smiles. It was the day of the wedding, Claudio and Hero to be married off in mere minutes. A playful jab was shared between Beatrice and Benedick, words flying out faster than arrows. Leonato stood, using a dainty teaspoon to draw attention to himself, the light chatter fading to a dead silence. Nobody dared talk when the master of the household did. “It is time,” He proclaimed simply, hauling up both

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    Background: According to the National Trauma Institute, hypovolemic shock is the second leading cause of death in people with traumatic injuries. [1] This makes the initial identification and management of Hypovolemia detrimental to the outcome and survival of many patients involved in traumatic events. Hypovolemia refers to a medical condition in which rapid fluid loss results in multiple organ failure due to inadequate circulating volume and consecutive inadequate perfusion. [1,2,3] Method:

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    Sepsis: Early Detection and Implementation of Sepsis Resuscitation Bundle Introduction Sepsis is defined as the body’s inflammatory response to an infection and can quickly lead to multiple organ failure and death. Early, goal-directed therapy using the sepsis resuscitation bundle introduced in the “Surviving Sepsis Campaign” is the treatment used throughout the world for sepsis treatment (Winterbottom 2012, pp 247). There are approximately one million cases of sepsis in the United States

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    response to bacteria in the blood. However, with sepsis the response is massive and the inflammation that occurs can cause a ripple effect of changes that may lead to damage of multiple organ systems, causing them to fail. “If sepsis progresses to septic shock, blood pressure will drop dramatically which, could possibly lead to death” (Carreno, 2016). Anyone can develop sepsis, but it 's most common and most dangerous in older adults or those with weakened immune systems. Therefore, it is very important

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    China’s Lost Girls Culture Shock/ pg.35- the disorientation that people experience when they come in contact with a fundamentally different culture and no longer depend on their taken-for-granted assumptions about life. The main idea of this film was to document the adoption process and show how terrible life can be for girls in China. It highlighted how amazing it can be when a child is adopted into a better life. However, it does not show the downsides that could occur due to this process. One

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    Culture can be defined as the characteristics of a particular social, ethnic or age group. Every country in the world has it’s own culture and beliefs that holds the nation together. Sociologists define society as the people who interact in such a way as to share a common culture. The cultural bond may be ethnic or racial, based on gender, or due to shared beliefs, values, and activities. Culture is an organized system because it ties many parts together that are interconnected to all function as

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    Personal Narrative- A Lesson in Culture Shock “ You want to be the same as American girls on the outside.” (Tan, Amy) Like Tan in her narrative “Fish Cheeks”, everyone has had a time in their lives when they wanted to fit in at school or home. Sometimes it is hard to try to blend into the surroundings. Moving from Boston to Tallahassee has taught me a lot about such things like honor, pride, and self-reliance. Such is related to us in Wilfred Owens’s “Dulce et Decorum est” which is about his experience

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    Culture Shock I never saw myself seeing Death Grips, a crazy experimental hip hop group from Sacramento, California last Summer. I’ve struggled with Social Anxiety for the past five years and doing something this crazy was way out of my comfort zone. I became an avid fan of this group two years ago when I discovered them through YouTube. When I first listened to them I thought they were the worst thing I had ever heard. The glitchy, distorted sounding music with screaming rap vocals just wasn’t

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    digestive tract, even the kidneys.) according to Nolan, Pullinger, Bath, & Oxford ( 2014), hypovolemia can lead to hypovolemic shock; where a person can lose up to 20 percent of their blood or body fluid. Shock occurs when blood pressure is low to the point where blood does not perfuse the organs and stays low long enough that cells start to malfunction and die. Hypovolemic shock is a medical emergency. 2.

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    SECTION A Clinical Questions from Weeks 1-3 Mechanism of injury and neurotrauma 1. Identify, define and categorise three types of time criticality. 1. Actual: Vital signs If, at the time the vital signs survey is taken, the patient is in actual physiological distress, then the patient is considered ‘actual time critical’. Neonate First 28 days Infant 1-12 months Child 1-8 years Older child 9-12 years Adult >14 years Conscious state ALOC ALOC ALOC ALOC ALOC Respiratory rate 60 50 35 25 30 SpO2

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