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  • Tobacco Use Cessation: 2020 Annual Report to the Governor and the Legislature

  • Environmental Public Health Tracking: COPD Data

    … COPD (chronic obstructive pulmonary disease) is a lung disease that causes airflow blockage and breathing-related problems. Wisconsin Tracking provides data and information on COPD. Read the … for chronic obstructive pulmonary disease. COPD is a group of diseases that affects a person’s breathing and makes it hard for them to get oxygen to their lungs. COPD includes emphysema and … (CDC) COPD webpage . What causes COPD? The main cause of COPD is cigarette smoking. However, breathing in other lung irritants, such as air pollution, secondhand smoke, fumes, or dust over a …
    • Updated on September 28, 2022.

  • Self Compassion in the Time of COVID Presentation Slide Deck

  • Sample Patient Assessment Script: Cough

  • Human Metapneumovirus (HMPV)

    • Updated on November 21, 2023.

  • 2017 HAI Conference - Evaluation of Fever and Infection in Older Adults

  • Vaping and Lung Injury Investigation

    … nausea, vomiting, fever, and weight loss. Severity. Some patients with EVALI develop severe breathing problems requiring hospitalization, and may have to be put on ventilators in order to …
    • Updated on January 11, 2023.

  • Trash and Wood Burning

    … health. People who are exposed to these air pollutants can experience eye and nose irritation, breathing difficulty, coughing, and headaches. People with heart disease, asthma, emphysema, or … health effects occurring depends mostly on the concentration of air pollutants in people’s breathing zone (the air that’s breathed around the nose and mouth). Typically, no adverse health … and wood burning cause health problems? The gases released by trash and wood burning can cause breathing irritation. Some of these gases are called aldehydes, which cause strong irritation …

  • General Pediatric Clinic - 3 to 4 Week Visit

    … Seeks Eye Contact Smiles Responsively Smiles Spontaneously Anticipatory Guidance: Clothing, breathing, crying, outings, look for response to noise. Holding baby: Mom knows or shown. Use of … Allow room to kick. Blankets useful at this age but will be kicked off as the baby moves more. Breathing — Noisy, irregular at times in most babies. They do stop for several seconds often but … the mouth. When the baby has a nasal discharge, it often dries in the nares, causing noisy breathing and some blockage too. Suctioning may remove this mucus. Adding salt water may make …

  • Management of Air Releases

    … Corporation work plan described air action levels for the work area. The URS on-site worker breathing zone action levels for total VOC exposure durations greater than one minute are: (1) > … well as occupational exposures. DHFS recommends perimeter air monitoring in addition to worker breathing zone monitoring. Based on the occupational guidelines, DHFS recommends the following … (ppm) Location Actions - 15.0 total VOCs 0.1 total VOCs or 0.5 total VOCs perimeter worker breathing zone worker breathing protection test for benzene initiate vapor control measures …

  • Informed Consent For Medication-Haldol

    … movements of tongue; sticking out of tongue; tic-like or twitching movements; trouble with breathing, speaking, or swallowing; uncontrolled chewing movements; uncontrolled movements of … syndrome: confusion (severe), fever, muscle rigidity, loss of balance control.; difficulty breathing; fast breathing; drooling; fast heartbeat; high or low (irregular) blood pressure; increased sweating; …

  • Parainfluenza

    … include: Fever Runny nose Coughing Croup (an infection in the upper airway that obstructs breathing and causes a barking cough) Bronchitis (inflammation of the airways of the lungs) …
    • Updated on November 21, 2023.

  • Informed Consent For Medication-Haldol

    … movements of tongue; sticking out of tongue; tic-like or twitching movements; trouble with breathing, speaking, or swallowing; uncontrolled chewing movements; uncontrolled movements of … syndrome: confusion (severe), fever, muscle rigidity, loss of balance control.; difficulty breathing; fast breathing; drooling; fast heartbeat; high or low (irregular) blood pressure; increased sweating; …

  • Tobacco Use Cessation: 2022 Annual Report to the Governor and the Legislature

  • Health Care Associated Infections: Respiratory Droplets

    … the disease COVID-19 , travels between people is through RESPIRATORY DROPLETS You are also breathing out water. Every time you breathe out of your nose or mouth, you don’t breathe out just …

  • Registered Nurse to EMT-Basic: Transition Course

    … of Transportation b) Protective clothing (1) Hazardous material suits (2) Self Contained Breathing Apparatus c) Hazardous materials scenes are controlled by specialized HazMat teams d) … (urgent move) when there is immediate threat to life a) Altered mental status b) Inadequate breathing c) Shock 3. If there is no threat to life, the patient should be moved when ready for … the left) without twisting the body 2. A patient with chest pain or discomfort or difficulty breathing should sit in a position of comfort as long as hypotension is not present 3. A patient …
Last revised November 30, 2023