Fatigue Case Studies

Post-traumatic stress disorder. Battle fatigue. Shell shock. All of these are names of mental disorders that soldiers come home with. The damage is caused by war. “What they [the soldiers] have seen and been forced to do is frequently so horrific and devastating that it simply cannot be tolerated by the human psyche” (xiii). The consciences of soldiers that participate in war can’t handle what they have seen and done, causing disorders such as the ones above. Soldier’s heart is similar to the aforementioned ailments. During the civil war, “Some men came through combat unscathed. Most did not. These men were somehow different from other men. They were said to have soldier’s heart.” A soldier has soldier’s heart when they come back from war harmed

Muscle fatigue occurs when the muscle system experiences a reduction in its ability to produce force and accomplish a desired movement. Muscle Fatigue is caused by the limitation of a nerves ability to generate a sustained signal or known as a neural fatigue as well as the reduced ability of a muscle fibre to contact (metabolic fatigue).

There are barriers to CRF occurring at the patient, professional and system levels. The patients barrier is due to the patient believing that their fatigue is not important, that it is inevitable or untreatable. Patients usually do not consider fatigue as a valid problem to complain about to their providers. Even when patients communicate an overwhelming or severe fatigue, they are not sure about the process that care health care providers will use to diagnosis their fatigue (Borneman, 2007). Barriers at the professional levels, include a lack of knowledge about the complex nature of fatigue. Also there is lack in literature agreement about the definition of fatigue, it’s causes, effects and remedies used for fatigue management. Usually health care providers focus on managing pain and nausea because they interfere with quality of life but fatigue is not considered one of these symptoms that needs to be addressed.

This questionnaire has several subdomain scores including Vitality, Physical Functioning or Emotional Role Functioning and two component scores Physical (SF-PCS) respectively Mental (SF-MCS), the scores ranging from 0 (worst possible) to 100 (best possible) [10]. In this study, SF-36 was used to compare HRQoL in both populations and in particular, to detect the presence of the clinically significant fatigue: this is defined with scores for Vitality subdomain of 50 or less. This cut-off being validated in other autoimmune debilitating diseases such as multiple sclerosis or rheumatoid arthritis [11-13].

Fatigue can be a symptom of many disease condition such as thyroid problems, a brain tumor, vitamin deficiency, anemia, hypothyroidism, pregnancy and depression. It is important to ask questions that should rule out all these differential diagnoses. As the interview progresses some of the diagnosis can be ruled out. The initial questions that the patient was asked include

Perceived fatigue at work is often viewed as important, because it may interfere with the high efficiency demanded in many occupational settings. Examples of effects of fatigue are poor judgement, omission of details, and generally, inadequate performance. Fatigue that becomes chronic or excessive may interfere with a person's quality of life, and without recovery prolonged fatigue may also lead to work-related disorders. Managing human fatigue and reducing excessive fatigue are of significance in areas such as healthcare industry, where fatigue has been shown to be an influential factor in a variety of medical errors result in substantial unnecessary personal and economic costs (Tourangeau et al. 2006). DeLuca emphasize the complex nature of

As I suffer from Moderate Fatigue, I find staying awake very difficult no matter the amount of sleep I do or do not get. To help with this I take natural tablets as mentioned before. I get mine from Holland and Barrett’s, and as it is all natural it causes no harm. I highly suggest this, but if you dislike tablets there are other methods to help fatigue.

After reviewing several studies a common use of qualitative research techniques focused on developing understandings about fatigue on physicians in their real time environment and the processes involved. The results from Dula 's et al. (2001) study were astonishing (see Appendix A for more information on the KAIT results). Of the 16 emergency physicians tested, KAIT scores showed a significant difference in day shift and night shift emergency physicians. The conclusion was a decline in cognitive performance after working five night shifts.

Summary: Chronic Fatigue Syndrome affects thousands of people in Australia, yet people have little knowledge about this disease. Chronic fatigue has symptoms like many other illnesses which make it difficult to diagnose. Visit an expert doctor who can offer treatment for chronic fatigue.

The best empirical evidence for the effects of fatigue on behavioral restraint comes from studies which show that self-regulatory failure can be overcome with an increase in success importance. In these studies, resource depleted participants are shown to be unable to resist an urge unless they are presented with a performance incentive. This is because when the depleted (high fatigue) individuals are presented with the behavioral restraint challenge, they perceive the urge as excessively difficult to resist against in comparison to their low level of success importance, due to the fact that no reward was being offered. This leads to effort being withheld and no behavioral restraint. In contrast, once an incentive is offered, the participants’

In February of 2009, Colgan Air flight 3407 crashed while on approach killing forty-nine people on board as well as one on the ground according to the official National Transportation Safety Board (NTSB) Accident Report (2010). In February of 2008, go! flight 1002 ignored several radio calls after departure and eventually flew past its destination and continued over open water according to the NTSB’s Report (2009). In April of 2007, Pinnacle Airlines flight 4712 overran the runway after landing at its destination airport. According to the NTSB’s official Accident Report (2008), there were no injuries. The incidents and accidents listed above all have one common factor: fatigue. Fatigue was shown to have played some role in Colgan 3407, go! 1002, and Pinnacle 4712.

According to the Mayo Clinic (N.D) “Chronic fatigue syndrome (CFS) is a complicated disorder characterized by extreme fatigue that can't be explained by any underlying medical condition. The fatigue may worsen with physical or mental activity but doesn't improve

As we know, alert or alarm fatigue syndrome occurs when there are various electronic devices such as heart monitors, mobile phones, IV pumps, sequential compression stockings in a healthcare setting that alerts or alarms a nurse continuously, that we often no longer pay attention to, because the nurse has become desensitized to these alarms.

Critics initially assumed that Frank was the genius behind all of the couple’s works and assessments of factory productivity. He, of course, was the male of the couple and therefore the credit was most often his. People in this era had a hard time acknowledging women's accomplishments, especially hers because of her husband’s place in assisting to get her name out into the world. Lillian began to be included however and slowly she began to rise. Together, the two established a Fatigue Study in which they published under both of their names in 1917. They additionally published an Applied Motion Study in England and Germany. Many of their lectures also became known and they covered precision, motion devices, and industrial opportunity. Lillian

In the case study of the 75 year old woman these are some of the questions that could be added in the assessment process. The relation to the fatigue I would ask more question to get a better understanding in clarifying the direction. Like how long does it lasts when it occurs? Can you rate the level of your fatigue on a scale of 0-10 ten being the worst? Is it accompanied with a type of activity? Have you had any lifestyle changes? It is a gradual or sudden onset? Do you have any sleep disorders i.e. dyspnea? Do you sleep flat or reclined? This helps pinpoint the fatigue from different types. The types of fatigue are tiredness, exercise, depression, stress, medically like anemia, heart disease, emphysema. (Wilson & Giddens 2009)