Hemiparesis

hospital on September 9th, due to acute respiratory failure with hypoxemia. She was in respiratory distress and had an altered mental status. Her chief complaint was shortness of breath. Her medical history showed a history of strokes with left hemiparesis/aphasia, seizures, hypertension, chronic systolic and diastolic dysfunction, mechanical aortic valve replacement, depression with psychosis, nephropathy, and GERDS. She currently resides in a skilled nursing facility. 
 Initial assessment of my

Pediatric abusive head trauma, also known as shaken baby syndrome, is a devastating form of abuse. It occurs when a young child is violently shaken. The repeated shaking back and forth motion causes the child’s brain to bounce within the skull, resulting in bruising and swelling. This intentionally inflicted injury causes trauma to the head and neck region, including cranial, cerebral, and spinal injuries. It occurs in infants and small children because the muscles of the neck region aren’t strong

In this scenario, the subjected data is chest palpitation, lightheadedness and dizziness, the objective data is elevated heart rate with irregular rhythm, orthostatic blood pressure readings, lying 135/90, sitting 120/80, standing 100/60, and the client becoming dizzy and light-headed as he moves from a sitting to a standing position while taking the blood pressure. The subjective and objective data indicates that the patient has orthostatic hypotension. To determine what is causing the orthostatic

Introduction: Mr X, a 60 year- old Caucasian male, admitted to the stroke unit with a diagnosis Left MCA infract. He presented to the emergency department right sided hemiparesis, neglect of affected limbs, dysphasia and right side facial droop. He was on cardiac monitor for close observation for 48 hours. Stroke critical care pathway and commenced and care provided as per protocol.. Stroke is a serious and deadly condition including cerebral circulation within the brain and can extremely affect

Epidemiology AC, is a painful and debilitating condition affecting 2% - 10% of the population (Neviaser and Hannafin, 2010: Cadogan and Mohammed, 2016). Statistical data indicates a higher prevalence in women (59% - 70%), a mean onset age of 50 - 60 years (Cadogan and Mohammed, 2016). The average condition duration presents for 30.1 months but ranges from 1 - 3.5 years (Hand et al, 2008) placing a considerable burden upon individuals and health care services. The non-dominant arm is slightly more

Discussion This integrative review explores the difference of the onset-to-hospital arrival time between females and males with acute strokes. The results demonstrate that the means and medians of the hospital arrival times among female patients trend toward more delay than male patients, particularly in the Asian-Pacific and Middle Eastern region. However, the various evidences show that gender difference is not statistically significant. Among thirteen articles that showed gender differences

stroke results when arteries carrying blood to the brain may become blocked by a blood clot or plaque or they may rupture. There are two types of stroke: ischaemic and haemorrhagic. About 15% of all strokes are haemorrhagic and 85% are ischaemic. Ischaemic stroke This is the most common form of stroke and happens when cerebral flow of blood to an area of the brain is interrupted. It may be caused when a thrombus forms in an artery to the brain. Another reason may be a cerebral embolism, when

Concept analysis is a combination of seven steps that work together to clarify concepts in our nursing practice (McEwen & Wills, 2014). The term self-care is a concept from Orem’s self-care deficit theory. The purpose of this concept analysis is to clarify the concept and determine how it is used in the nursing practice, particularly with rehabilitation patients. We will further explore this concept with literature reviews, the possible uses of this concept, its attributes, model and alternative

diagnosis is in a 12-15 month range. Most people don’t survive longer than five years after diagnosis; even with treatment. Without treatment, survival is typically 3 months. (Foundation, 2017) Symptoms of GBM are severe. Symptoms of the disease hemiparesis, nausea, vomiting, headache, memory loss, and seizures. The most dominant symptoms are progressive memory, personality, or neurological deficit, due to temporal and frontal lobe involvement. With GBM the symptoms will vary depending on the location

When Jim first attends hospital a care plan will be put into place to ensure quality patient care. When structuring the care plan Jim 's history, medication and allergies will be recorded followed by his daily routines and his personal needs. In order to produce the care plan a risk assessment will need to be carried out. A plan of the action will then be enforced, this plan will then be implemented and evaluated at the end to see whether Jim has taken to the treatment or whether he has deteriorated