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A patient of mine once suggested that we give him an antibiotic prescription so that it can lower the risk of getting a heart attack. I was treating him for a coronary artery disease and he backed his request with literature that did show that he very well knew the benefits of aspirin.

When someone talks of a muscle in the pelvis, it will be simple to understand and answer any question that is related to that. However, when the same question is posed and the words ‘obturator internus’ muscle replaces pelvic muscle, it will be very confusing and more so to a layperson.

The future technology in health sector

The advent of technology will change our lives to the better, but that is only if we implement fully. In the hospitality industry, for instance, a lot of time is lost when customers wait for waiters so that they can order for the food they want.

Some of the medics we have in our medical institutions use complicated terms when communicating to their patients, and in most of the times when they only need to pass simple information across.

The new Medicaid programs have caused a crisis in various medical institutions, who are trying to balance the application of the programs and service provision. Budget crisis caused by the programs has given the directors a reason to alter their service provision standards to cut costs and reduce risks that come about because of the government’s failure to pay for the services rendered. The alteration is a risk to the health of the patients because.

Unfortunately, two centuries later, it still remains a complete mystery as to what could have been the actual cause of the premature death of the Austrian composer, at age 35 in Dec. 1791. Many theories have been presented as people try to put up the pieces of his untimely death.

The researchers are not so sure of which reasons could be behind this improvement. However, they strongly suspect that this could have resulted from the way hospitals now treat cardiac arrest patients and also an improvement on how bystanders respond after a person collapses suddenly.  Published in Journal Circulation, the study found that the death rate in 2009 among hospitalized Americans who had suffered from cardiac arrest was slightly below 58 percent

During the research, the team also found out that some patients are more vulnerable to having their ribs and other bones broken than others. When studying some patients who were admitted to hospitals in Korea, nearly a third of them who received resuscitation after CPR had at least one of their ribs broken and about 4 % had a broken sternum or breast bone.

According to a large study done in Japan, the odds of cardiac arrest victims are going to survive the situation with less brain damage are very low. The researchers said that their findings support some statements made by American Heart Association that the compression only CPR could be a comparable option to traditional technique that involves chest compressions together with mouth to mouth breathing.

According to the study, people who viewed a demonstration showing what needs to be done during a cardiac arrest had a better idea on the action they should take in such a situation compared to those who didn’t.