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Many people think that a nose gets congested (stuffy) from too much thick mucus. However, in most cases, the nose becomes congested when the tissues lining it become swollen. The swelling is due to inflamed blood vessels. Newborn infants must breathe through the nose. Nasal congestion in an infant's first few months of life can interfere with nursing, and in rare cases can cause serious breathing problems. Nasal congestion in older children and adolescents...
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It was an otherwise ordinary evening when a gunman walked into a pub and shot an innocent man seven times at point-blank range with a Makarov semiautomatic. After re-creating the crime, this program tracks the victim from the scene of the shooting, to surgery, to intensive care, to recovery and ongoing therapy for PTSD as it addresses the treatment of his wounds through expert commentary supported by 3-D computer graphics and OR footage. The program...
11) Chest Pain
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When people have chest pain, they're often concerned they're having a heart attack. I'm Dr. Alan Greene, and I'd like to talk to you for a moment about the different kinds of chest pain and when it may be an emergency. It turns out, there are lots of different kinds of chest pain. In fact, almost everything in the chest can hurt in one way or another. Some of the causes are really nothing more than a minor inconvenience. Some of them, though, are...
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They call it the common cold for a reason. Colds are extraordinarily common. Children average three to eight colds a year, and adults almost that many. I'm doctor Alan Greene, and I want to give you a couple of tips about navigating the cold and flu aisle at the drug store.
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Charlie's simple and predictable life gets complicated when his war-journalist father gets injured in Afghanistan. Now he must live with Gram and take frequent trips to the hospital, and then must travel cross-country when his father moves to Virginia for better treatment. Along the way, Gram tells Charlie that people heal faster when they are happy, and Charlie thinks that if he can spot all the birds he and his father want to spot, then maybe, somehow,...
17) Choking
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Normally, food goes down your esophagus. Sometimes, however, if you talk excitedly while eating, some food could go down your trachea (windpipe). In the unlikely event that you can't talk or breathe, the Heimlich maneuver can save your life. After a few abdominal thrusts, the food comes right out.
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Beyond the immediate risks to a patient's life, doctors must also identify other bodily damage. In this program, Dr. Gunther von Hagens examines the kinds of injuries that can lead to permanent disability if not quickly addressed. Dissecting a female body donor who died after falling from a window, von Hagens locates fractures throughout her skeleton, explains how bones break, and bends a human spine to discover how much force it can withstand before...
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The human brain suffers irreversible damage if deprived of oxygen for even a few minutes-a fact Dr. Gunther von Hagens demonstrates in this program, utilizing human cadavers. Simulating an artery injury to illustrate oxygen depletion through blood loss, von Hagens then focuses on problems affecting the trachea, the top priority for ER doctors. Von Hagens inserts an endoscope into his own throat and saws a frozen body in half to reveal the major structures...