National Nursing Review : Nursing Study Resources & Health Tips

• Arthritis has no direct effect on sexual function, arthritic symptoms can inhibit sexual function. Treatment with steroids to control arthritis can reduce sexual interest or desire.
  The progressive disfigurement may cause changes in body image.
  • Assumption pathogenic mechanism: Opposition to the stimulating effect of androgens on the brain and sex organs (caused by treatment with steroids).
• cardiovascular accident (stroke) causes no direct impairment of sexual function disorders are common even in the erection and decreased frequency of intercourse and sexual intercourse.
  • Assumption pathogenic mechanism: Changes in the role of the patient or her partner, fear of relapse or sudden death.



• Cardiovascular Disease: The deterioration of sexual functioning limits the quality of life of 34 – 75% of patients after myocardial infarction (MI). No direct physical effect on sexual function in men, although only 25% of post-MI patients regain their level of sexual activity prior to IM, 25% resumed sexual activity. Women are less likely to experience sexual problems. (more…)

Alginates Biodegradable natural polysaccharides are non-woven fiber derived from the calcium salt of alginic acid (from seaweed). Although they are commonly known as calcium alginate, all are composed of ions of sodium and calcium in different proportions.

These dressings are in Print and mechas18. In advanced healing diabetic foot ulcers are used in moderate to heavy exudate and after surgery or surgical debridement. For ulcers without exudate or discharge low, are contraindicated because they promote the drying of the ulcer bed. (more…)

It is a measure of the pressure exerted by blood on the artery walls in its drive through the arteries. Because the blood moves in waves, two types of measures of pressure:
Systolic pressure is the blood due to contraction of the ventricles, ie the maximum pressure and the diastolic pressure is the pressure that remains when the ventricles relax, this is the minimum pressure.

The mean arterial pressure (MAP) was calculated using the following formula: systolic pressure – diastolic pressure / 3 + diastolic pressure. The PA is determined by cardiac output and peripheral vascular resistance, hence the PA reflects both the stroke volume of blood as the elasticity of arterial walls.

RECOMMENDATIONS

• The arm and forearm should be naked, or at least the clothes should not exert improper compression.
• The cuff size should be chosen according to the diameter of the arm. The relative disparity between the size of the arm and the cuff may be cause of error, in very obese arms usually falsely elevated values are obtained very thin arms and obtained values below normal.

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