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  2. Hemodynamics - Wikipedia

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    Hemodynamic monitoring is the observation of hemodynamic parameters over time, such as blood pressure and heart rate. Blood pressure can be monitored either invasively through an inserted blood pressure transducer assembly (providing continuous monitoring), or noninvasively by repeatedly measuring the blood pressure with an inflatable blood ...

  3. Advanced Life Support in Obstetrics - Wikipedia

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    Advanced Life Support in Obstetrics (ALSO) is a program that was developed by the American Academy of Family Physicians (AAFP). This course helps physicians, certified nurse midwives (CNM), registered nurses, and other health care providers involved in potential emergencies in the perinatal care of mothers.

  4. Mosby's Dictionary of Medicine, Nursing & Health Professions

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    Mosby's Dictionary of Medicine, Nursing & Health Professions is a dictionary of health-related topics. The 8th edition, published in 2009, contains 2,240 pages and 2,400 colour illustrations. It includes some encyclopaedic definitions and 12 appendixes containing reference information. [1]

  5. Holter monitor - Wikipedia

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    Each Holter system has hardware (called monitor or recorder) for recording the signal, and software for review and analysis of the record. There may be a "patient button" on the front that the patient can press at specific instants such as feeling/being sick, going to bed, taking pills, marking an event of symptoms which is then documented in the symptoms diary, etc.; this records a mark that ...

  6. Acute decompensated heart failure - Wikipedia

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    Cardiac symptoms of heart failure include chest pain/pressure and palpitations.Common noncardiac signs and symptoms of heart failure include loss of appetite, nausea, weight loss, bloating, fatigue, weakness, low urine output, waking up at night to urinate, and cerebral symptoms of varying severity, ranging from anxiety to memory impairment and confusion.

  7. Healthcare in Canada - Wikipedia

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    In 2019, 80 percent of Canadian adults self-reported having at least one major risk factor for chronic disease: smoking, physical inactivity, unhealthy eating or excessive alcohol use. [11] Canada has one of the highest rates of adult obesity among Organisation for Economic Co-operation and Development (OECD) countries attributing to ...

  8. Oxygen saturation (medicine) - Wikipedia

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    The body maintains a stable level of oxygen saturation for the most part by chemical processes of aerobic metabolism associated with breathing.Using the respiratory system, red blood cells, specifically the hemoglobin, gather oxygen in the lungs and distribute it to the rest of the body.

  9. Invasive monitoring - Wikipedia

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    Invasive monitoring may refer to: Mass surveillance or Surveillance that leads to privacy breaches; Trojan monitoring is having access to private computers (like phones, PCs, tablets, etc.). Personal data collection can happen to improve a newspaper's material (not necessarily performed by a country). Monitoring (medicine)