Quiz 4 Chapter 20 1. Blood pressure in most commonly measured in the: Brachial artery 2. Exercise Modifications for individuals with hypertension include all of the follow except: isometric exercise 3. A tall basketball player has overly long extremities with hypermobile joints and a marked pigeon chest. This athlete may be at risk for marfan’s syndrome 4. Which of the following is not a sign or symptom of shock? Constricted pupils 5. Which of the following forms of syncope does not suggest a serious
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Patient Teaching J. D. is a 3 yr old boy with West Syndrome‚ absence of the corpus callosum‚ and developmentally delayed with controlled spasms since 10/2012 until recently when J.D. presented to Miller Children’s emergency department with several episodes of spasm-like activity and vomiting up his keppra. Mom describes the episodes a 5-10 seconds in duration‚ with upward and outward jerking of his arms. The learner‚ which will be the mother‚ speaks English as her first language‚ she has a
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Well‚ is Shawn completely stuck in neutral or is he just hiding his current condition behind his miraculous seizures?The book‚ Stuck in Neutral by Terry Trueman‚ is a fiction dramatic novel about the main character who is a 14-year-old boy called Shawn Mcdaniel‚ who tells the story by a perspective by telling the reader about his condition called C.P (Cerebral Palsy) which prevents him to control any part of his body. Shawn is sophisticated and thinks normally as if he were a normal teenager‚ but
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The world can be perceived in many different ways. The blind‚ the deaf‚ children‚ adults‚ teenagers‚ parents‚ all “see” the world in a different way. It is an author’s job to convey how he “sees” the world to his readers. Oliver Sacks does this quite well. Through his use of analogies and other rhetorical strategies‚ Oliver Sacks greatly enhances the reader’s view of a newly sighted man’s life and in turn‚ the reader’s view of the world. In the beginning of “To See and Not See‚” by Oliver Sacks
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Chapter 5 Ethics in Research Below is a summary of a nursing study. Read the summary and then answer the factual questions that follow: Singleton investigated the behaviors of nursing students in crisis or emergency situations. She was interested in comparing the behaviors of students from baccalaureate versus diploma programs to determine the adequacy of the preparation given to students in handling emergencies. Fifty students from both types of programs agreed to participate in the study
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Seizures defined as… It is a neurologic disorder and is occur as a result of disruption in nerve cell activity in the brain causing seizure or unusual behavior‚ sensation and sometime loss on consciousness. Type of seizure: 1. Focal seizures: there is disruption in one area of brain. A. Simple partial seizure. B. Complex partial seizure. 2. Generalized seizure: there is disruption in all area of brain. A. Absence seizure. B. Tonic seizure. C. Atonic seizure. D. Clonic seizure. E. Myoclonic
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The diagnosis of Dravet Syndrome is based on clinical criteria‚ namely the onset within the first year of life of prolonged and repetitive febrile or afebrile‚ generalized or unilateral clonic seizures‚ in association with other seizure types‚ delay in psychomotor development‚ and behavioral disorders.4 It must be emphasized that the diagnosis is entirely clinical‚ and can be proposed even in the absence of any identifiable mutation of the SCN1A gene during genetic analysis.4 It is also important
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Case study Annie I would deal with this incident by first checking if Annie is still in critical condition and still fitting I would then protect her from getting any injuries by removing objects that are nearby. I would then cushion her head so she doesn’t get any head injuries. The next thing I would do is check there breathing if so I would calmly and gently put them in the recovery position this is only if the seizure has finished. Step by step 1. Step one I would assess the area this means
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sequenced (NIH/National Human Genome Research Institute [NIH/NHGRI]‚ 2005). This opened the door for research on complex inherited traits and allowed for greater detail. One such trait that could now be analyzed was idiopathic epilepsy in dogs. What is idiopathic epilepsy? Epilepsy is a condition in which a seizure occurs twice or more in a month with no apparent trigger. A seizure is when abnormal brain electricity causes external symptoms‚ typically
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The disorder that I will be addressing is epilepsy. I recently interviewed a young gentleman named Joba Ferrell who has suffered from the disorder since the age of fourteen. Joba is now 22 years old. Epilepsy a neurological disorder marked by sudden recurrent episodes of sensory disturbance‚ loss of consciousness‚ or convulsions‚ associated with abnormal electrical activity in the brain. The Center for Disease Control reports that Epilepsy is one of the most common conditions affecting the brain
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