Notwithstanding the substantial progress in acute stroke care over the past 15 years, the focus of stroke medical advances and healthcare resources has been on acute and subacute recovery phases, ...

Bronchitis causes inflammation and swelling in the bronchial tubes, which connect the throat to the lungs. This inflammation makes it more difficult to breathe and can cause chest pain and pressure.

Some regional aged care providers say elderly clients have to find a bed hundreds of kilometres away from home due to high demand. They say the mandated nurse-to-patient ratio and a shortage of ...

A nurse forced to change an incontinent patient with dementia beside a vending machine and a patient dying from a cardiac arrest who couldn’t be given adequate cardiopulmonary resuscitation (CPR) ...

Thoracostomies, and subsequent placements of chest tubes (CTs), are a standard procedure in several domains of medicine ... it might not be feasible to carry CTs, even if the care provider is ...

Through my training as a trauma therapist, I’ve come to conceptualize that the foundational self-care tool chest really comprises four main parts, all parts that I assess and then further work ...

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However, you can claim salaries and wages for care in such facilities if the care recipient qualifies for the disability tax credit (go to Salaries and wages). What is meant by nursing home – A ...