The time of onset of seizure, date and duration should be noted and documented. • Phase 2:WT = 98.8 F (37.1 C) BP = 110/61 P = 99 RR = 40 (coughing, gasping) O2 Sat = 89% (room air) • Lung sounds: Crackles bilaterally • Substernal and intercostal retractions • Speech: Moaning • Pupils: 4 - brisk, bilaterally equal…
There is a member of the women’s soccer team that has an undiagnosed exercised induced disease. She has been to a vast amount of doctors and the only thing they have been able to do is to rule out seizures. Although, seizures may have been rules out she still presents with very seizure-like symptoms when it happens. She starts by losing cognitive function and no one is able to get her to respond to his or her attempts at getting her attention. She also has a tendency during this stage to start hitting her legs, in the belief that this somehow will help or just a twitch that comes with the episode.…
During my assessment, her mother explained she is prone to seizures. Knowing this fact, along with her state of unconsciousness, I rested her head on a tube to prevent possible injury. Within minutes, the woman went into a seizure and luckily emergency medical service arrived on the scene to take over. Like all incidents at the waterpark, these incidents required a holistic understanding of how each guest is unique and all factors, from heath to mental condition, play an important factor in our treatment…
Introduction The growing diversity in a country poses a constant challenge to health care workers. The hodgepodge of peoples and culture creates a mosaic of cultural dynamics. These cultural dynamics could be a potential source of conflict between the patient and the healthcare providers like physical therapists (PTs), doctors, and nurses. The diversity between the healthcare provider and the patient could impact their decision-making, interaction, relationship, health outcomes and the quality of care.…
When you start getting quoted for auto insurance in Maitland, it's important to know the factors used by insurance companies. Several medical conditions could affect your premiums in a negative way. By knowing about them, you can counteract the cost of insurance in other ways. Diabetes If you have diabetes, you run the risk of having hypoglycemic episodes.…
Today in the simulation, we assessed 63 year old Frankie Delpuerta. He came in from raking leaves when he suddenly was overcome with shortness of breath. He had complaints of pain in the chest, left arm and jaw with shortness of breath, and he looked pale and felt clammy. His vital signs seemed normal except his heart and respiratory rates were higher than normal and he was hypotensive with a blood pressure of 92/58. During the examination, he was very anxious the whole time of what was going on.…
Simple FS are defined as seizures lasting less than 15 minutes and not reoccurring during a 24 hour period. The children consisted of 46 boys and 32 girls, with most of them being between the ages of 2-3. Enrollment occurred over a 48 month period through a private pediatric group practice and involved face-to-face or telephone interview investigation. The survey was conducted 2 weeks after the FS and the questionnaire was divided into 3 parts: details of the family and child, medical management of the child prior to reaching the hospital, and parental actions and thoughts during the convulsive event. The parents were first asked what they were thinking when the convulsions were occurring and if they believed that their child was going to die, dying, dead or had severe brain damage.…
The patient had not taken any treatments for the headache and the pain was a level 7 out of10.Discharge diagnosisPatient is admitted to the hospital on January 31st with wife who witnessed the patient's first seizure. The patient understands why they were hospitalized at the time and is worried about seizures changing current lifestyle. Specific teaching for seizures includes an understanding of the disease, cutting down on risk factors, treatment, and precautions. The mechanism of a seizure is described as, “a sudden, explosive, disorderly discharge of cerebral neurons and it is characterized by a sudden, transient alteration in brain function, usually involving motor,sensory, autonomic, or psychic clinical manifestation and a temporary altered level of arousal”(Osborn & Watson 2014, p.354). In laymen terms for the patient to understand, a seizure can bedescribed as a an uncontrolled discharge of neurons in the brain.…
According to National League for Nursing, “Simulation provides a rich learning opportunity for students to integrate theory with practice while making real-time clinical decisions in an environment that poses no risk to patients.” just as this study was conducted to aid nurses’ knowledge and self-confident to identify deteriorating patients on step-down cardiac unit. I agree with Chelsea that both questions were addressed in the article, The effect of unit-based simulation on nurses’ identification of deteriorating patient. The simulation education showed positive results for both knowledge and self-confident with significant increase where knowledge scored from 72.73 to 81.82 and self-confident scored from 4.40 to 4.59. The Jeffries’ Nursing…
Training is one of the most flexible and adaptive means for improving performance in organizations.1 As such, training has been one of the main thrusts in the drive to increase safety in healthcare systems.2 Specifically, the use of simulation-based training (SBT) to train teamwork skills holds promise as a powerful method to increase safety and effectiveness in healthcare.3–7 Team performance measurement is central to a scientifically rooted approach to SBT(simulation based training) for training teamwork skills.8,9 When executed correctly, team performance measurement provides a systematic means for determining the causes of effective and ineffective performance, providing feedback to correct deficiencies in the individual and team competencies…
Summary and Conclusion The purpose of literature was to show proponent and opponent studies in regard of ECT practice in both ethical and legal views, despite the debate of ECT use most of proponent studies recommend use of ECT with consent form and use it with anesthesia, and never to use it unmodified. On the other hand, literature reveal that ECT is effective treatment for patient with depression and as last resort treatment despite serious side effects such as memory problems, whereas; these memory problems was transient and temporary. Most of opponent of ECT claims that procedure is not ethical, whereas; produce risks more than benefits, such as memory problems and may cause death, and they consider the seizure therapy is not mode of therapy for…
She noted that being that epilepsy is a problem that brings about changes in a peon’s body such as movement, behavior and feeling, managing it should be taken seriously by the patient and those around them so as to avoid the risk of…
Two years ago during winter break I woke up in the middle of the night because I felt sick. At about 5 in the morning my mom found me unconscious in my room. My brother called 911 and the ambulance came. I was awake for second then would be sleep do to the seizures I was experiencing. When I got to the hospital, I was taken to the emergency room.…
Patients with epilepsy whose seizures do not successfully…
Epilepsy is classified as a central nervous system disorder otherwise known as a neurological disorder, this means nerve cell activity in the brain is disorganized caused by an electrical disturbance thus triggering seizures, unusual behavior, odd symptoms and abnormal sensations. Another name for epilepsy is seizure. Epilepsy can start within a person at any age but is more common in young children and the elderly. According to Mayo Clinic, “About 1 in 26 people in the United States will develop a seizure disorder. Nearly 10 percent of individuals may have a single unprovoked seizure.…