The patient being examined or treated is usually awake during coronary catheterization, ideally with only local anaesthesia and minimal general sedation, throughout the procedure. Performing the procedure with the patient awake is safer as the patient can immediately report any discomfort or problems and thereby facilitate rapid correction of any undesirable events. Medical monitors never tell the whole story; how the pati ...

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Coronary catheterization, Coronary catheterization - History, Coronary catheterization - Patient participation, Coronary catheterization - Equipment, Coronary catheterization - Diagnostic Procedure Description, Coronary catheterization - Catheterization to physically treat luminal disease, Coronary catheterization - Advances in catheter based physical treatments

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(see also list of Soil fertility topics) Soil fertility is enriched by the addition green manures, minerals and humus. Minerals are obtained from a variety of sources, such as calcium from fossil or recently deceased shellfish, potassium from wood ash, nitrogen from the animal urea in manures or leguminous plants, and phosphorus from bone. Humus is a product of composted vegetable matter. The cellulose in humus acts like a sponge and holds moisture in the garden soil, available for the growing plants. Composting is a process by ...

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(see main article Biological pest control) Control of animal pests can be achieved through natural methods, including crop rotation, physical removal of insects, introduction of prey species, interplanting which reduces the spread of pests and disease that agribusiness monocropping accentuates and through the use of companion planting of plants which may demonstrate pest-repellant characteristics. ...

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(see main article Weed control) For the organic grower, unwanted plants (or weeds) are suppressed without the use of herbicides. Barriers are often used to prevent weeds from reaching the light they need to grow. Generally called mulches, they can include stones, leaves, straw or wood. Paper can make an excellent barrier which, like leaves, straw and wood, will return its cellulose to the soil. These barriers have the added effect of keeping moisture in the soil below them. Some writers even refer to soil loosened by hoeing and ...

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The United States Department of Agriculture (USDA) has recently established standards which must be followed by any growers who wish to label their produce as "organic". Many small-scale gardeners and farmers have neither the time nor resources to comply with the USDA's extensive record-keeping requirements. These growers often market their produce under alternative labels such as "naturally grown", "chemical free", and the like. Some farmers even contend that they use growing methods superior ...

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Religious music - Christian music. There is virtually no record of the earliest music of the Christian church except a few New Testament fragments of what are probably hymns. Some of these fragments are still sung as hymns today in the Orthodox Church, including "Awake, awake O sleeper" on the occasion of someone's baptism. Being Jewish, Jesus and his disciples would most likely have sung the psalms from memory. However, the repertoire of ordinary people was larger than it is today, so they probably knew other songs too. Early Christians continued to sing the psalms much as they were ...

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Common symptoms of head injury include those indicitave of traumatic brain injury: loss of consciousness, confusion, drowsiness, personality change, seizures, nausea and vomiting, headache, a lucid interval, during which a patient appears conscious only to deteriorate later Symptoms of skull fracture can include: leaking cerebrospinal fluid (a clear fluid drainage from nose, mouth or ear) may be and is strongly indicative of basilar skull f ...

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Eye Opening, Verbal response, and Motor response are the three criteria. Highest possible total is 15, if the score is 8 intubate and resuscitate. Head injury - Eye Opening. Spontaneous 4 points To voice 3 points To pain 2 points None 1 point Head injury - Verbal Response. Older child: Oriented 5 points Confused 4 points Inappropriate 3 points Incomprehensible 2 points None 1 point Infant: Smiles, Fixes, follows 5 points Consolable cry 4 points Persistently irritable 3 points Restless and agitated 2 points None 1 poin ...

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Head trauma is a common cause of childhood hospitilization. Serious head trauma is usually secondary to motor vehicle accidents, sports, recreation, and violence. Presentation varies according to the injury. A patient may present with neurologic deficit or without neurologic deficit. Some patients with head trauma may stabilize and other patients may deteriorate. Children with neurologic deficits may have a history of a lucid interval and relapse into coma, or they may have remained abnormal after the injury. The physocal examination will va ...

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Head injuries include both injuries to the brain and those to other parts of the head, such as the scalp and skull. Head injuries may be closed or open. A closed (non-missile) head injury is one in which the skull is not broken. A penetrating head injury occurs when an object pierces the skull and breaches the dura mater. Brain injuries may be diffuse, occurring over a wide area, or focal, located in a small, specific area. A head injury may cause a skull fracture, which ...

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Ku Klux Klan - Creation. The original Ku Klux Klan was created at a Christmas Eve, 1865 meeting in a law office by six educated, middle-class Confederate veterans[2] who were bored with postwar life in Pulaski, Tennessee. The name was constructed by combining the Greek "kyklos" (circle) with "clan."[3] It was at first a humorous social ...

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Ku Klux Klan - Creation. The founding of the second Ku Klux Klan in 1915 demonstrated the newfound power of modern mass media. The year saw three closely related events: The film The Birth of a Nation was released, mythologizing and glorifying the first Klan. Leo Frank, a Jewish man accused of the rape and murder of a young white girl named Mary Phagan, was lynched against a backdrop of media frenzy. The second Ku Klux Klan was founded with a new anti-immigrant and anti-Semit ...

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Following the demise of the second era KKK, there were three periods of resurgence, dubbed by some scholars and Klan participants as the third through sixth era Klans. After World War II, the Klan's victims began to fight back. In a 1958 North Carolina incident, the Klan burned crosses at the homes of two Lumbee Native Americans who had associated with white people, and then held a nighttime rally nearby, only to find themselves surrounded by hundreds of armed Lumbees. Gunfire was exchanged, and the Klan was routed.See also:

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Although often still discussed in contemporary American politics as representing the quintessential "fringe" end of the far-right spectrum, today the group only exists in the form of a number of very isolated, scattered "supporters" that probably do not number more than a few thousand. In a 2002 report on "Extremism in America", the Anti-Defamation League wrote "Today, there is no such thing as the Ku Klux Klan. Fragmentation, decentralization and decline have continued unabated." However, they also noted that the "need for justification runs deep in the disaffected and is unlikely to disappear, rega ...

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Membership in the Klan is secret, and the Klan, like many fraternal organizations, has signs members can use to recognize one another. A member may use the acronym AYAK (Are you a Klansman?) in conversation to surreptitiously identify himself to another potential member. The response AKIA (A Klansman I am) completes the greeting. Throughout its varied history, the Klan has coined many words [45] beginning with "KL" including:

While the Klan has faced decline during the latter part of the twentieth century, it nevertheless managed to resonate in the minds of those in the media. Talk show host Jerry Springer had Klan members on his program The Jerry Springer Show numerous times. The animated series South Park often pokes fun at the Klan. A repeated joke has a character or characters wear an ill-fitting sheet as a "ghost" costume but will come across as a Klansman to the town's African-American members. In the movie Forrest Gump, the title character (played by Tom H ...

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Head trauma is a common cause of childhood hospitilization. Serious head trauma is usually secondary to motor vehicle accidents, sports, recreation, and violence. Presentation varies according to the injury. A patient may present with neurologic deficit or without neurologic deficit. Some patients with head trauma may stabilize and other patients may deteriorate. Children with neurologic deficits may have a history of a lucid interval and relapse into coma, or they may have remained abnormal after the injury. The physical examination will va ...

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Head injury, Head injury - Head Trauma, Head injury - Causes, Head injury - Types of Head Injuries, Head injury - Symptoms, Head injury - Mild concussion, Head injury - Epidural hematoma, Head injury - Subdural hematoma, Head injury - Cerebral contussion, Head injury - Diagnosis, Head injury - Pediatric Glasgow Coma Scale, Head injury - Eye Opening, Head injury - Verbal Response, Head injury - Motor Response

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Following the demise of the second era KKK, there were three periods of resurgence, dubbed by some scholars and Klan participants as the third through sixth era Klans. After World War II, the Klan's victims began to fight back. In a 1958 North Carolina incident, the Klan burned crosses at the homes of two Lumbee Native Americans who had associated with white people, and then held a nighttime rally nearby, only to find themselves surrounded by hundreds of armed Lumbees. Gunfire was exchanged, and the Klan was routed.See also:

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Although often still discussed in contemporary American politics as representing the quintessential "fringe" end of the far-right spectrum, today the group only exists in the form of a number of very isolated, scattered "supporters" that probably do not number more than a few thousand. In a 2002 report on "Extremism in America", the Anti-Defamation League wrote "Today, there is no such thing as the Ku Klux Klan. Fragmentation, decentralization and decline have continued unabated." However, they also noted that the "need for justification runs deep in the disaffected and is unlikely to disappear, rega ...

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Membership in the Klan is secret, and the Klan, like many fraternal organizations, has signs members can use to recognize one another. A member may use the acronym AYAK (Are you a Klansman?) in conversation to surreptitiously identify himself to another potential member. The response AKIA (A Klansman I am) completes the greeting. Throughout its varied history, the Klan has coined many words [45] beginning with "KL" including:

The Mitchell Trio, during the time that John Denver was with them, recorded the heavily satirical song "Your Friendly, Liberal, Neighborhood Ku-Klux-Klan," both a comical and savage statement against the movement. Talk show host Jerry Springer has had Klan members on his program The Jerry Springer Show numerous times. The animated series South Park often pokes fun at the Klan. A repeated joke has one or more characters wearing an ill-fitting sheet as a ghost costume, which comes ...

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The Klan's first incarnation began in late 1865 or early 1866 in Pulaski, Tennessee. It was founded as a social organization, but quickly its main purpose became to resist Reconstruction in the wake of the American Civil War, and it focused as much on intimidating "carpetbaggers" and "scalawags" as on putting down the Freedmen. It quickly adopted violent methods, and was involved in a wave of 1,300 murders of Republican voters in 1868. A rapid reaction set in, with the Klan's leadership disowning it, and Southern elites seeing the Klan as an ...

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