Quotes About Medical

Nearly a third of babies born in hospitals in the United States are delivered via cesarean section, often due to the cautionary nature of modern obstetrical practice.2 Among seventeen thousand home births in a recent study conducted by the Midwives Alliance of North America, only 5.2 percent needed to go the hospital for a C-section.

The placenta is thought to be an impervious barrier, at least to most bacteria

There is a real medical condition for which Japanese tourists are sometimes treated after visiting Paris. It is called Paris Syndrome, and symptoms include depression and nausea due to realising that the city isn't as beautiful and romantic as they had previously been led to believe.

It has been proven that dogs can detect lung cancer by smelling a patient's breath, and can even smell early signs of cancer before medical experts can detect them.

The anesthetic was amazing. His eyes flickered down and he could see his own organs beneath the film of welling blood, his lungs, his heart, and below them his diaphragm, stomach, liver. Yet there was no pain. He felt only an itch around his collarbone and a strange cold feeling, like drinking crushed ice in a tall summer drink-so cold you could feel it all the way down inside you.

The patient's autonomy always, always should be respected, even if it is absolutely contrary - the decision is contrary to best medical advice and what the physician wants.

I'm trying to knock the medical profession into accepting its responsibilities, and those responsibilities include assisting their patients with death.

As a medical doctor, it is my duty to evaluate the situation with as much data as I can gather and as much expertise as I have and as much experience as I have to determine whether or not the wish of the patient is medically justified.

Even people who feel perfectly comfortable investing in the stock market and owning their own homes often have qualms about individual medical accounts or Social Security private accounts.

I suspect that the vast majority of people, not knowing in advance whether they will either end up in a permanently vegetative state or be diagnosed with cancer, would prefer that any resources that would be spent on PVS care be reallocated to cancer research--or some similar enterprise that has the potential to help human beings who might actually recover.

She was expected to recover, but the prognosis was uncertain as to whether she might have

REFERENCE RANGES FOR POTASSIUM Potassium (mEq/L) Category Greater than 7.0 Extremely high (Severe hyperkalemia) 6.1 to 7.0 Very high (Moderate hyperkalemia) 5.5 to 6.0 High (Mild hyperkalemia) 3.5 to 5.4 Normal 3.1 to 3.4 Low (Mild hypokalemia) 2.5 to 3.0 Very low (Moderate hypokalemia) Less than 2.5 Extremely low (Severe hypokalemia) Target Range: 3.5 to 4.5 mEq/L

REFERENCE RANGES FOR SODIUM Sodium (mEq/L or mmol/L) Category Greater than 155 Very high (Critical level of hypernatremia) 144 to 155 High (Hypernatremia) 134 to 143 Ideal 120 to 133 Low (Hyponatremia) Less than 120 Very low (Critcal level of hyponatremia)

REFERENCE RANGES FOR CHLORIDE Chloride (mmol/L) Category Greater than 108 High (Hypercholremia) 97 to 108 Normal Less than 97 Low (Hypocholremia)

REFERENCE RANGES FOR CARBON DIOXIDE Carbon Dioxide (mmol/L) Category Greater than 33 High (Hypercapnia) 21 to 33 Normal Less than 21 Low (Hypocapnia) Target Range: 23 to 29 mmol/L

Although optimal BUN levels can vary according to a person's age and gender, the generally accepted "normal" range is 6 to 20 milligrams per deciliter (mg/dL). Values less than 6 mg/dL are considered low, and values over 20 mg/dL are considered high. There is no optimal value for this lab.

REFERENCE RANGES FOR CREATININE Category Normal Range (mg/dL) Men 0.6 to 1.2 Women 0.5 to 1.1 Children (twelve years of age or younger) 0.3 to 0.7

REFERENCE RANGES FOR GLOMERULAR FILTRATION RATE (GFR) GFR (mL/min) Severity of Kidney Damage 90 to 120 with no evidence of kidney damage Normal Greater than 90 with evidence of kidney damage Stage 1 (Beginning of kidney damage) 60 to 89 Stage 2 (Mild kidney damage) 30 to 59 Stage 3 (Moderate kidney damage) 15 to 29 Stage 4 (Severe kidney damage) Less than 15 Stage 5 (Kidney failure)

REFERENCE RANGES FOR TOTAL PROTEIN Total Protein (g/dL) Category Greater than 8.0 High 6.5 to 8.0 Normal Less than 6.5 Low Target Range: 7.2 to 7.5 g/dL

REFERENCE RANGES FOR GLOBULIN Globulin (g/dL) Category Greater than 3.5 High 2.0 to 3.5 Normal Less than 2.0 Low Target Range: 2.8 to 3.2 g/dL

REFERENCE RANGES FOR ALBUMIN/GLOBULIN Albumin/Globulin Normal Range A/G Ratio 1.1 to 2.4

REFERENCE RANGES FOR ALANINE AMINOTRANSFERASE (ALT) Category ALT Normal Range (IU/L) Men 0 to 55 Women 0 to 40

REFERENCE RANGES FOR ALKALINE PHOSPHATASE (ALP) Category ALP Normal Range (IU/L) Men 15 to 20 years old 45 to 400 Men 20 to 60 years old 25 to 150 Men 60 to 100 years old 25 to 160 Women 15 to 20 years old 45 to 400 Women 20 to 60 years old 25 to 150 Women 60 to 100 years old 25 to 165 Target Range for Both Men and Women: 72.5 IU/L

Low AST readings are generally a sign of good health and not cause for concern.