Ultrasonography of a Helical Left Common Carotid Artery

Case Presentation: An 83-year-old woman was admitted to the intensive care unit for septic shock at which point an internal jugular central venous line was placed. The patient’s common carotid artery was visualized in an atypical location, lateral to the internal jugular vein. Further inspection revealed the common carotid artery travelling in a rotational trajectory around the internal jugular vein.Discussion: For at least two decades, point-of-care ultrasound has become the standard of care for placing central venous lines. This surprising anatomical orientation is rare and cautions physicians to fully explore a patient’s anatomy prior to placing central lines

Shoulder Injury - Recreational Bowler

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College Environmental Factors Related to Faculty Morale

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Combating Long-Term Care Isolation through Healing Touch

Loneliness is defined as feelings of disconnectedness, lack of belonging, and perceived isolation that can manifest as a physical or psychological state. In long-term care facilities, this sentiment can develop into social isolation in which residents are disconnected from family, removed from familiar environments, and suffer from various cognitive conditions that cause them to socially withdraw. Various clinical studies seek to identify the connection between isolation, loneliness, and lack of human touch with worsening health conditions and outcomes, determining that there is a correlation between this feeling of discontent. To combat this, healing touch has been a rising topic of conversation, surfacing the importance of human interaction and contact on healing. After pooling together various pieces of literature that focus on the benefits of healing touch, I sought to put on an outreach event that would address both major topics by bringing long-term care residents together and utilizing human touch and interaction to promote better health outcomes. With the assistance of 10 volunteers, the Vancrest Assisted Living staff, and my faculty advisor, I put on a Spa Event that brought together both male and female residents, giving them makeovers, hand massages, facials, painted nails, and hair styling. The goal was to spend time with each resident individually, pampering them and giving them individual human contact and time to make the residents feel special and combat the loneliness and lack of genuine human touch. The impact of the event was measured with a survey utilizing the volunteers’ perception of the residents

Simulated Radioactivity

An experiment to simulate radioactive decay is easily performed with a random-number generator or a set of random numbers. The nuclei are imagined to be indexed consecutively. The initial appearance of the index number of a particular nucleus is interpreted as a signal that it has disintegrated. The number of surviving nuclei is an exponential function of the number of draws, and represents the radioactive decay law, with fluctuations. This procedure is a precise realization of the conventional probabilistic derivation of the radioactive decay law if, indeed, the random number generator is truly unbiased

Corrective factors for adjusting weaning weights of beef calves to a standard age

The purpose of this work is to develop correction factors for adjusting weaning weights of calves to a constant age and sex basis. Development of a method of adjusting weaning weights to a standard age should greatly enhance the value of calf weights in experimental work