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When we are talking about medical problems that occur, when there is an acute disturbance of consciousness in which a pt becomes disoriented to person, place, and time, and can have confusion, hallucinations, and agitation caused by drugs, alcohol, infection, etc... This disturbance is called ?
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delirium
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A progressive and chronic memory impairment is ?
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Dementia
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A older pt that scores lower on intellectual exams and has problems in judgement and problem solving may be suffering from ? One way to check for this in a quick and orderly fashion would be to make an assesment using the ? exam.
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Dementia,
Mini-Mental-State-Exam |
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? disease is a type of dementia caused by tangles, which are ?'s bunched up together and can also be caused by plaques which is cause by poor ?
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Alzheimers,
neurons, blood flow |
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? dementia is caused by ?, ?, ? that cuts off oxygen supply to parts of the brain.
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Vascular,
stroke, aneurism, embolism |
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A pt that is in the late stages of HIV and has dementia this is called the HIV ? complex.
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dementia
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A cause of dementia where a pts Syphillis has gone unchecked and they get into stage 4 of Syphillis and this causes dementia is called ? Syphillis.
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neuro
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A form of Alzheimers that is caused by a thiamine deficiency brought about by alcoholism is ? This causes a form of amnesia known as ? amnesia. These pts do not have good nutrition and this causes ?
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korsakoff's syndrome,
anterograde, malnutrition |
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With ? amnesia the pt cannot form new memories.
With ? amnesia the pt is losing memories from the past. |
anterograde,
retrograde |
