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Acute Respiratory Distress Syndrome; the Risk Taker

Dr. MD

The risk taking, deadly, but non-contagious disease is here. You are sick in bed with a mere pneumonia. In the next two days of your sickness you find out that you have a new sickness call ARDS. The reason it is so risk taking is because the treatment can kill you. The good news is that it is a non-contagious disease. The bad news is that it is deadly and prevents you from doing the things you love.

My Job

My name is Dr. Jeremy Toubia and I am a cardiologist (car-de-o-lo-gist) and I specialize in the cardiovascular system. The cardiovascular system contains two systems together, first the circulatory system and then the respiratory system that work together to make the cardiovascular system. I work in a hospital and help patients with lung diseases which affect the respiratory (res-per-a-tory) system that cuts the body’s function and systems.

The Job of the system

The circulatory system’s job is to transport nutrients, wastes, and oxygen. Another job of the circulatory system is to keep the organism alive. The circulatory system contains three organism, the blood, the heart, and blood vessels. The blood which is the most important organ has three parts, red blood cells, white blood cells, and platelets. Red blood cells carry oxygen and carbon dioxide. They get oxygen from the lungs, then go to the heart, and then get carbon dioxide from the body. White blood cells fight of germs (invaders) and diseases that affect the body. Platelet’s job is to make blood clots cuts. Blood clots are when you have a cut in a blood vessel then the platelets come in and repair the vessel that nothing goes wrong. If one system in the whole body does not function right then the body won’t function. Now that is why each and every system is equally important.

Symptoms

The main symptom of ARDS is that you experience shortness of breath due to oxygen levels. Lots of people who have ARDS may also be susceptible to attract H1N1 (swine-flu) and kidney failure. You also may appear to have problems breathing and moving becomes difficult.

The Disease

This disease is called Acute Respiratory Distress Syndrome (ARDS). Acute means it happens suddenly at a certain time in life. Respiratory is the oxygen supply system in your body. A distress is when you have a great strain of difficulties which makes it harder to breathe. Syndrome is a big group of symptoms to make a disease. ARDS is infamous for its rapid onset. The syndrome, ARDS, was first described by Dr. Ashbaugh in 1967.

The Affect on the System

ARDS is a really affective disease that can be or will be an enemy to you. ARDS affects you by inflaming your lungs which makes it harder for you to breath. Inflammation will cause endothelial dysfunction. Endothelial Dysfunction is when the fluid formed in the is not being drained from the lungs.

The Cause of the Disease

Usually you get ARDS when you have an acute injury or illness which is most likely to be pneumonia. ARDS is most common at the age of 47 or older. Sometimes ARDS happen because there is an air-leak in the lungs. An air-leak is when the little holes in the lungs get pressure and end up trying to get bigger or maybe even burst.

How ARDS is Treated

ARDS is treated with Mechanical Ventilation. Mechanical Ventilation is one of the essential parts of the treating of ARDS and is the most traditional treatment. The most appropriate medicine is an antibiotic therapy and must be used as soon as microbiological culture results available. The overall goal in treatment is to uphold gas exchange and to minimize adverse affects which is to avoid getting any unknown or major problems within the lungs. I, as a cardiologist use PEEP (Positive End Expiratory Pressure) to keep maximum recruiting of Alveolar units which come from the alveoli.

Conclusion

So what if this disease is not contagious. Still, sometimes you never know when you could get ARDS because it is like a stealth disease. The reason why it is so deadly is because it is very rare and could kill. So if you worry about the disease, I say expect the unexpected.

Biography

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A One of a Kind Birthday

It was a dark Halloween night. It was me, my sisters, their friends and my dad. My dad said, “Come on, I’m not going to wait for you. So we went trick or treating, and my dad starts to cough. Then I said “Are you okay, because we can go back home”. Then he says “I’m fine”. So he puts his jacket on and he still coughs. Then I start to get really worried because it is harder for adults to fight off any kind of sickness than it is for kids.

For the next few days he went having trouble breathing, so my mom says that he has to go to the hospital. Then I turn sad because my dad has never been in a hospital and plus, this is a serious condition. When I have to say good-bye to my dad I wonder why he isn’t talking. Then I thought in my mind “What if he dies”. My dad left and my sister Eva were still in the bathroom, and she cried because she didn’t get to say good-bye.

I asked myself “I wonder, if daddy will miss his birthday?” So I just changed the subject because it made me sad so I just watched TV. My mom randomly cry, and then everyone would cry even me and that is because our family had never been in such as bad situation as this.

Now here comes school. I was having trouble with school because I had a report for social studies at the same time that I had to visit my dad. Sometimes it would be fun in the hospital because I get to drink hot chocolate, eat chicken potato soup, and play with my brother’s laptop.

When all of my relatives came I felt a lot of love because of how many people cared for him. Also at school all of grade 4 cared for him. They even wrote cards for my dad. So I was happy with that.

While they were making cards I looked at the calendar and it was my Dad’s birthday. I got sad because I mean who stays in the hospital not celebrating their own birthday?

Since his birthday was near Thanksgiving, he also missed that holiday too! What a life. Now everyone was thinking of all the good holidays my dad was going to miss like Christmas, New Years, our birthdays, and his anniversary.

So I thought what it would be like if my dad died. Then I so knew that it would be just horrible. Why does my dad have to die? When I decided that my birthday wish I was going to wish for my dad to get out of the hospital.

The day before my birthday I was in my room writing my dad a note that said “Dear D ad, I hope you get well on my birthday because that would be the greatest birthday gift of all, your son Jeremy”.

When it was birthday and I was so excited because I wondered if my dad would heal that day. After school, my friend’s mom picked me up, I stayed at their house for a couple of hours, then my mom picked me up and it looked like we are heading for the hospital. We passed through the security guards and my mom walked really fast. I saw my aunt and she was crying I knew this couldn’t be good. So I ran into the room, and I saw 3 red Xs on the machine and there laid my dad, dead at 6:43 P.M. on my birthday. Then I cried and I cried like hell. Then I knew that definitely was not the birthday I had hoped for.

The Dissection of the Heart

Doing dissections of parts in the human body is gross, but when you really see it, it will absolutely amaze you to know what happens inside your body. A dissection took place in my classroom a couple of days ago because we are studying about the circulatory system and the parts of it.

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Why Listening Skills Come in Handy

The listening skills of people are at hand. People have to realize why listening skills are so important. I think in my opinion it matters because of later on in life. I can tell you where it mostly helps and why it matters so much.

When you drive or start learning how to drive you have to listen to the person who is teaching you or else one day you’ll get in a car crash. Also you have to know how to read or else you will lose your way on the road because you can’t read signs.

Sometimes you also want to enter in a contest when you have to know the rules. When you get accepted in the competition you have to hear and listen for the instructions. When you don’t listen to the instructions you won’t know what to do and you’ll get into lots of trouble because you will be cheating without even knowing that you did cheat.

In some schools you learn different languages like Spanish or French. One day when you ever visit one of those countries and you didn’t listen on how to speak it, too bad because you won’t be able to talk to anyone there accept your family. The reason of listening at or anywhere will always come to you later on in life and you will realize why it is so important.

The only reason school was made was for children to learn. School might seem boring but at the same time really helpful. When you get kids you’re going to end up saying to them that school is helpful like in work or anywhere, school learning helps you to become a better person. Now you should realize that you have to start listening in school.

Sinkholes: The Swallowing Monster

You might think sinkholes are not important. Well you are wrong, because sinkholes are a very big deal. They are hollow holes in the ground that can suck up any objects like humans and cars. If you find a sinkhole look in a limestone region because that is where they are mostly formed. Since sinkholes are a very big deal the thing they are most important about is that they can create enormous destruction. They can even swallow entire buildings.

Formation

Can you believe of what sinkholes can do and what information they have, well let’s find out. After a sinkhole is formed it has a hole that can lead to caves or caverns. A sinkhole’s minimum width and length is five acres. Sinkholes are like caves because when sinkholes are formed they make a cave but after their roof collapses. Sinkholes are so huge enough that they can swallow a human from all the way to sky scrapers. One time a women was swallowed and stayed into a sinkhole for three hours but finally got help. Sinkholes are formed when carbon dioxide and water react together making carbonic acid which makes the weakening ground collapse. The cool thing about a sinkhole is that you need a sinkhole to form a geyser. Sinkholes might seem cool but if you’re an adult they could make you really mad. How, sometimes your most valuable car can be sunk into a sinkhole. Sinkholes also relate to landslides and landslides can lead to or make avalanches.

Found

When you go and look for a sinkhole look in a limestone region because that is where they are mostly found. When you find I am saying for your own sake don’t get near it because when you get trapped you won’t be able to live on anything. The reason why a sinkhole is always in a limestone region is because the limestone floor is very weak which makes the sinkhole being able to suck the floor up. Now you know that if you see a sinkhole or your near limestone I would run because I don’t want to get stuck in the ground for a day, would you?

When you think about sinkholes forming everywhere remember sinkholes only form in a limestone region and if you see any reaction of a sinkhole if I were you I would run or else you will get swallow whole by the ground.

Don’t think that after sinkholes are formed they do something useful like other landforms, well they don’t. All their use is to swallow people if people walk by. The reason why nothing happens after it is formed is because it is just a very big deep hole in the ground. Another reason why is because you are not going to spend a week just filling a sinkhole with cement to build a building on top. Why would it take a week, because the average length (how deep it is) is over 100 feet deep. The most biggest sinkhole in all of the world was in Cairo, Egypt and it was 125 kilometers deep (75 miles). Finally, the last reason why it has no future is if it has no use it has no future.

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