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An operation to transplant a new heart and lungs into someone. A surgical procedure to remove a diseased heart and lungs and replace them with a healthy heart and lungs from a recently deceased donor. Heart-lung transplant is performed only on those who have both severely diseased lungs and advanced heart disease, are likely to…

Any disease of the heart in general.  

The regular noise made by the heart as it pumps blood. A heartbeat is a contraction of the heart that propels blood to the lungs and the rest of the body. This intricate process requires the different parts of the heart to contract in a precise order, regulated by electrical impulses originating from the sinoatrial…

Partial or complete loss of the ability to hear. Inability or impaired ability to hear and interpret sounds, the two general types of ear and hearing problems being conductive losses and sensorineural losses. Partial or total loss of the ability to perceive and identify sound. There are four general categories of hearing loss: conductive hearing…

Having any degree of hearing loss that interferes with communication, development, learning, or interpersonal interactions. Hearing which is not clear and sharp.  

A small electronic device fitted into or near the ear, to improve someone’s hearing by making the sounds louder. An electronic aid used by people with certain kinds of hearing impairment to make sounds louder. The effect of a hearing aid depends on the seriousness and type of the hearing loss. Electronic device, usually worn…

To sense sounds with the ears.  

A registered nurse with qualifications in midwifery or obstetrics and preventive medicine, who visits mothers and babies and sick people in their homes and advises on treatment. Community nurses with special training work in collaboration with general pracitioners, they are primarily responsible for illness prevention and health screening and education of children and elderly people…

The process of deciding what the health care needs of a community are, with the help of statistics, and what resources can be provided for that community.  

Someone who is responsible for the provision of local health care, through the management of hospital, GP, and community health services.