CASE STUDY #1 JULY 13‚ 2001 EMERGENCY ROOM CONTACT Patient is a 42 y.o. male presenting to ER‚ via EMS‚ experiencing seizure activity since approximately 0850. EMS called to the scene at 0915 and patient presents to ER at 0925. According to patient’s wife‚ patient was seen in ER on July 1st for seizure activity. Patient’s medical history was otherwise normal up to this point. Patient is married and has two children. Patent does not smoke or drink alcohol. Patient is a truck driver
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1. name 3 different laws or legislations 1.Health and Safety at Work etc Act 1974 The Health and Safety at Work etc Act 1974 ‚ also referred to as HASAW or HSW‚ is the primary piece of legislation covering occupational health and safety in the United Kingdom. The Health and Safety Executive is responsible for enforcing the Act and a number of other Acts and Statutory Instruments relevant to the working environment. 2.Health and Social Care Act 2008 The Health and Social Care Act 2008 established
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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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Osmolality and electrolytes in cerebrospinal fluid and serum of febrile children with and without seizures. During acute febrile diseases mild disturbances of water and electrolyte balance occur frequently. It has been suggested that changes in electrolyte balance‚ in particular hyponatraemia‚ might predispose a child to convulsions during febrile illness; however‚ the changes of electrolytes in the CSF are not known. We have studied the effects of fever and convulsions on water and electrolyte
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Full time carer Margaret McCall talks about her day-to-day struggles with caring for her disabled son. “Normally I get up at 6am‚ shower‚ take my tablets and make a cuppa. I get my son David up at 6:45am and get him out of bed. I then wash him before taking him back to his room‚ laying him on the bed and changing his pads. Then I dress him and put him into his wheelchair. I give him his breakfast and his medication then I take him into the living room and put his trainers on and wait for the van
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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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