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The ICC World Twenty20 2012 News

The ICC World Twenty20 2012 will be contested by 12 teams which have been 'seeded' and divided into four groups:

Group A                Group B               Group C                       Group D
A1: England           B1: Australia         C1: Sri Lanka              D1: Pakistan
A2: India                B2: West Indies     C2: South Africa         D2: New Zealand
Q2: Afghanistan     Q1: Ireland             Zimbabwe                  Bangladesh

*If a team seeded third in the group qualifies for the Super Eight, it will adopt the code of the team they have replaced. For example, if Q2 qualifies at England's expense in second place in group A, it would be A1 and India still A2. No points are carried forward to the Super Eight stage, and the top two teams in each Super Eight group will qualify for the semi-finals.

Super Eight          Group 1     Group 2          
                              A1              A2          
                               B2             B1          
                               C1             C2          
                               D2             D1

Respiratory Disease

patient's  management

1.       A 56-year-old businessman is planning a trip to east Asia for a period of 3 weeks. He is in generally good health except for chronic bronchitis. His medicines control his illness fairly well, but he asks if he should carry antibiotics with him in case he should develop an exacerbation. He agrees not to take anything with him, but on his return from the trip he calls from the airport sounding very short of breath and coughing. On examination that day, he has a fever of 38.3 °C and loud rhonchi and some wheezes. A chest radiograph shows some patchy lesions that look worse than on his baseline radiograph. His capillary oxygen saturation is the same as his baseline level.

                In addition to treatment for his airway disease, which of the following is the next step in this patient's management?

1. Anticoagulation for pulmonary embolus
2. Oral amoxicillin-clavulanate
3. Oral azithromycin
4. Oral gatifloxacin
5. Intravenous ceftazidime

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Assessing Blood Pressure

1. Check physician’s order or nursing care plan for frequency of blood pressure measurement. More frequent measurement may be appropriate based on nursing judgment.

 2. Identify the patient.

 3. Explain the procedure to the patient.

4. Perform hand hygiene and put on gloves if appropriate or indicated.

5. Close curtains around bed and close door to room if possible.

6. Select the appropriate arm for application of cuff.

7. Have the patient assume a comfortable lying or sitting position with the forearm supported at the level of the heart and the palm of the hand upward.

8. Expose the brachial artery by removing garments, or move a sleeve, if it is not too tight, above the area where the cuff will be placed.