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  2. Paralytic illness of Franklin D. Roosevelt - Wikipedia

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    [2] [1]: 47 Roosevelt came close to death from the illness. He faced many life-threatening medical problems including the possibility of respiratory failure, urinary tract infection, injury to the urethra or bladder, decubitus ulcers, clots in the leg veins, and malnutrition. Eleanor's nursing care was responsible for Roosevelt's survival.

  3. List of mass panic cases - Wikipedia

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    The episode lasted for months amid other local public health scares. [51] Tanzania (2008) – In September 2008, 20 girls at a school in Tabora started fainting while taking their final year exams. [52] The mass fainting according to one medical officer, has been linked to neurosis related to the local practice of witchcraft. [53]

  4. Palliative care - Wikipedia

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    According to the Clinical Practice Guidelines for Quality Palliative Care, spirituality is a "dynamic and intrinsic aspect of humanity" and has been associated with "an improved quality of life for those with chronic and serious illness", especially for patients who are living with incurable and advanced illnesses of a chronic nature.

  5. Basic life support - Wikipedia

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    Basic life support (BLS) is a level of medical care which is used for patients with life-threatening condition of cardiac arrest until they can be given full medical care by advanced life support providers (paramedics, nurses, physicians or any trained general personnel).

  6. Brain fever - Wikipedia

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    Supposedly the brain becomes inflamed and causes a variety of symptoms, most notably mental confusion, and can lead to death. The terminology is romanticized in Victorian literature, where it typically describes a potentially life-threatening illness brought about by a severe emotional upset, and much less often fatal than in medicine. [1] [2]

  7. Advanced trauma life support - Wikipedia

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    The premise of the ATLS program is to treat the greatest threat to life first. It also advocates that the lack of a definitive diagnosis and a detailed history should not slow the application of indicated treatment for life-threatening injury, with the most time-critical interventions performed early. [2]

  8. Idaho school district now needs parental consent for Band ...

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    Before students can get a Band-Aid or headache medicine, school nurses and staff in Boise, Idaho, must have permission from a parent after a new law was implemented mandating parental consent for ...

  9. Near-death experience - Wikipedia

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    A depersonalization model was proposed in the 1970s by professor of psychiatry Russell Noyes and clinical psychologist Roy Kletti, which suggested that the NDE is a form of depersonalization, experienced under emotional conditions such as life-threatening danger, potentially inescapable danger, and that the NDE can best be understood as a ...