Hypophosphatasia Case Study

In Jacqueline’s extreme case, she was with five friends driving home one night when a drunk driver swerved into their lane and hit them head on. Two of her friends died in the accident while she was left in the burning car. Jacqueline suffered from third degree burns on 60% of her body, but the inspiring part is yet to come. Jacqueline is not only alive and striving, but she is also learning to put her life back together and continue with life as normally as possible. But exactly how possible is that when you are left with noticeable deficiencies? Jacqueline was only 20 years old when the accident happened. She had recently decided to take a break from college to move to America from Venezuela to study English. With her injuries, she was not able to continue her college education or help her dad run his air conditioning factory. But even with this, Jacqueline still hopes to get married and have kids someday. She is aware that this may not be possible, but she is living life day-by-day hoping for a miracle.

In The Adoration of Jenna Fox by Mary Pearson, Jenna Fox, a 17 year old girl, gets in a terrible accident and wakes up from a coma a year later. She eventually finds out the accident caused her to lose her body. Only 10% of her brain is left. The rest is made of Bio Gel and a fake skeleton. The more she learns about this, the more it makes her think about the rest of her life. Jenna 's accident makes her question whether she can ever have a normal life.

Her parents then found out her chance of survival was 30% and as shocked and discourage her parents were they then found out that she could have been paralyzed.

For her to lose her legs at the age of 19, that would be enough for any teenager/young adult to give up. But, that didn’t stop her as she continued to be strong. Prior to her accident, she always enjoyed snowboarding. She always wanted to become a professional snowboarder. Well how can she do that without legs right? Well, her stories

Lexi was in a tragic boating accident that, unfortunately, resulted in the loss of her lower left leg. Countless amputees have given up on trying to become stronger and try to have a normal life again, but, however, Lexi decided she was not going to be one of them. It was extremely hard for her in the beginning because walking with prosthetics is a lot harder than walking regularly. Lexi had to work twice as hard to be able to get used to the prosthetics and try to live on with it to the best of her abilities. She kept working every day, going through physical therapy and other methods to be able to walk better with prosthetics. Although her life would never be the same again and would never be normal, Lexi made it her goal to try and get it to be as close to normal as possible. She was a very athletic girl before the accident and wants to go back to the sports she loves by training extra hard to make it to the Paralympics. Lexi also wants to become a physical therapist to help other amputees with their struggles. She looks at her leg with pride, knowing that she is living her life to the fullest and not letting the accident bring her spirit down. She will keep putting in a lot of effort, thanks to modern science that has made and improved prosthetics that will forever help her. Lexi is not going to let this get in her way of achieving her dream, which proves her grit and

Hypovolemia can be due to many predisposing factors such as fracture and surgery. The patient experienced a type of open fracture which is categorize by a wound in combination with the fracture (Whiteing, N., 2008, p. 50). Open Reduction Internal Fixation (ORIF) is the most common surgical technique for patients with open fracture which also includes tibia and fibula (William, L & Hopper, P., 2011, p. 1071). Since it was a major surgery massive blood loss or hypovolemia can be experience by a patient who will undergo this procedure. Craft, J., Gordon C., & Tiziani, A. (2011, p. 895) states that hypovolemia is a decrease in extracellular fluid volume and decrease in blood volume. In addition, Buttaro, T., (2013, p. 982) implies that there is approximately two (2)

Her right foot was crushed and her pelvis almost destroyed. The doctors did not think she would make it through surgery but she did. She had constant pain and frequently visited the hospital. The thin leg had gotten worse and had to get amputated (Laidlaw

Olga gave birth to her older son, Julio, who had an asthma problem and she didn’t know what to do at first. She panicked because the inflaming, wheezing, constriction of asthma can cause serious problems, even death. One time Olga voiced, “It was so hard to take care and watch him 24/7 without a break. I didn’t want to leave him behind.” Olga was walking down the mall and saw a perfect dress that was green and purple stripes and shoes to match, but she wasn’t very affluent and didn’t have many original things. Without a doubt, Olga desired to spend her money on his medicine to shrink his chances of more respiratory problems. Otherwise, she said, “Julio has very bad teeth cavities.” He would pout or throw a fit, like a fish out of water. He would cry and scream like in a scary movie when he was experiencing pain. This is when Supermom comes into, in rescue!

Dysphagia is a disorder that is characterized by difficulty swallowing, causing aspiration which, in result, causes many other life threatening sicknesses. Nearly 15 million adults in the United States are affected by dysphagia. Dysphagia and aspiration may cause complications such as malnutrition, pneumonia, dehydration, pulmonary fibrosis, and even death (Blumenfeld, Hahn, Lepage, Leonard, & Belafsky, 2006). Another common illness related to swallowing disorders is presbyphagia. Presbyphagia is when the function of swallowing changes as one ages (Pede, Mantovani, Felice, & Masiero, 2015). This disorder affects both the oropharyngeal and esophageal phases of swallowing; oropharyngeal and esophageal are terms that can be operationalized

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From what I have understood, I would say the contributing factors for dysphagia would have been because she has suffered from a stroke that has possibly contributed in the difficulty to chew or swallow foods and liquids, that may have been the lead cause of her malnutrition. Ignatavicius, & Workman (2016) found “studies indicate that as many as 50% of patients are malnourished at 2 to 3 weeks after a severe stroke” (p.942).

Conducting a complete history and physical of a patient is vital to their treatment. It is of great importance to gather information from patients when they present with complaints. It is also critical to ask patients questions about their history and condition. This helps the health care provider to obtain a better understanding. It can help to identify what test need to be ordered, medications prescribed, diagnose, and treatment. Tom is a 47 year-old male who presents with complaints of having dyspepsia along with nausea. He also indicates he has epigastric pain at times. Tom is also having a gradual onset of dyspnea on exertion and complaints of fatigue. He has a positive history for alcohol abuse. Several other questions need to be asked

It is important to note that dysphagia is a common symptom of HD. In addition to the swallowing problems of general chorea, patients with HD that are chorea-predominant also have common symptoms that include rapid lingual chorea, swallow incoordination, repetitive swallows, prolonged laryngeal elevation, inability to stop respiration, and frequent eructations. In kinetic-rigid HD patients, abnormalities include mandibular rigidity, slow lingual chorea, coughing on foods, and choking on liquids (Kagel and Leopold, 1992).

She had her baby a week ago. Her baby was doing fine until day 5 when she was shaking and not eating. She received a feeding tube, morphine and clonidine. The writer spoke to her about the process of her child taking morphine and clonidine. She stated they will send clonidine home with her child to take.

A person has difficulty producing spoken or written information has expressive dysphasia and will be unable to produce speech but will be able to understand what is said to them. Commonly both types of dysphasia can occur at once and this is called global dysphasia.