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On paper, of course, I was better: I didn't have leukemia, my blood counts were back to normal, and the disability checks soon stopped coming.
The idea is: if we were studying a human, we would put a human in an MRI, have them do some type of task, and we'd measure blood flow or brain activity and then try to figure out what parts of the brain do what.
As they infect more cells, the bacteria employ cell-degrading enzymes that destroy the infected tissue, triggering chest pain, and causing patients to cough up blood.
If I am suspected of a DUI on the way home, I can have blood taken from my person.
We give them medications that lower their blood sugar.
On days when they don't have enough food, it puts them at risk for a life-threatening side effect of hypoglycemia, or low blood sugar.
Maybe it's for high blood pressure.
But also, maybe there was something more important that day than their high blood pressure or a screening colonoscopy.
Cardiovascular disease, hemorrhage, high blood pressure causing seizures and strokes, blood clots and infection are some of the major causes of maternal mortality in this country.
That is five or six women every hour having a blood clot, a seizure, a stroke, receiving a blood transfusion, having end-organ damage such as kidney failure, or some other tragic event.
For example, if a pregnant woman in labor has really high blood pressure and we treat her with the right antihypertensive medication in a timely fashion, we can prevent stroke.
If we accurately track blood loss during delivery, we can detect a hemorrhage sooner and save a woman's life.
Then you need something to measure blood loss: sponges and pads.
And instead of just eyeballing it, the doctors and nurses collect these sponges and pads and either weigh them or use newer technology to accurately assess how much blood has been lost.
Three weeks later, she died from complications of high blood pressure.
And it can literally spell the difference between life and death, as it did in the case of Maria, who checked into the hospital after having an elevated blood pressure during a prenatal visit.
During Maria's first pregnancy that had happened two years earlier, she also didn't feel so well in the last few weeks of her pregnancy, and she had a few elevated blood pressures, but nobody seemed to pay attention.
They hooked her up to multiple different monitors and paid special attention to her blood pressure, the fetal heart rate tracing and gave her IV medication to prevent a seizure.
And when Maria's blood pressure got so high it put her at risk for a stroke, her doctors and nurses jumped into action.
They repeated her blood pressure in 15 minutes and declared a hypertensive emergency.
They worked smoothly together as a coordinated team and successfully lowered her blood pressure.
And before Maria was discharged from the hospital, her doctor counseled her again about the signs and symptoms of preeclampsia, the importance of having her blood pressure checked, especially in this first week postpartum and gave her education about postpartum health and what to expect.
But just as important, she had follow-up visits with her ob-gyn to check in on her health, her blood pressure, and her cares and concerns as a new mother.
Galen never realized that blood cycles continuously throughout the body.
Instead, he believed the liver constantly produces an endless supply of blood, which gets entirely depleted on its one-way trip to the organs.
But even then, it took another hundred years for an accurate description of blood flow to emerge, and two hundred more for the theory of the Four Humours to fade.
So in the winter of 2012, I went to visit my grandmother's house in South India, a place, by the way, where the mosquitos have a special taste for the blood of the American-born.
The emergency room ascertained that the kid had no alcohol in his blood.
90 percent of the reptiles on this island, 37 percent of the plant species exist here and nowhere else on earth, and that includes this species of dragon's blood tree, which actually bleeds this red resin.
Blood, in either liquid or powdered form, was used to treat epilepsy, while human liver, gall stones, oil distilled from human brains, and pulverized hearts were popular medical concoctions.
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