Cerebrovascular disease

In this case study it focuses on the Cerebrovascular Disease in the elderly, and how it challenges the elderly to have multiple intracranial aneurysms (MIA). Its concern is to assess the best treatment for the disease. Cerebrovascular disease occurs when a blood vessel that supplies blood to the brain is blocked by a blood clot or a plaque. Symptoms are due to a hemorrhagic CVA. This may include a severe headache that develop quickly. In this worldwide population aging, it is common to diagnose a ruptured cerebral aneurysm in someone older than 65 years old. When treating these patients the procedure have to be considered together with lower life expectancy and usually more problems. To assess the best strategy in the elderly is to perform a retrospective study among the patient. They evaluate the contingent differences between different treatment techniques and different management strategies for the un-ruptured aneurysms. They tested 41 people older than 65 years old with multiple aneurysms; 26 was females and 15 was males.…

Cerebrovascular disease causes a division into embolism, aneurysms, and low flow states depending on its cause. Major factors are obesity, diabetes, muscle weakness on the side of the body whether is right or left, smoking, hypertension and hypotension. In a healthy body the carotid arteries form blood supply to the brain. When having a stroke, the muscles may be lost depending on the type of the stroke patient/victim had. Strokes can result from embolism due to a breach blood vessel.…

1.0 Introduction Cerebrovascular disease is the collective identification of conditions that affect the flow of blood and blood vessels in the brain, usually resulting in strokes (Saladin K. S., 2012). This study aims to explore the effective treatment and prevention of the issue, as well as the incidence of the disease in Germany, and prevalence in both Australia and the United States. 2.0 Cerebrovascular Disease Cerebrovascular disease often leads to strokes, otherwise known as a…

pharmacological intervention include management with cholinesterase inhibitor and the NMDA antagonist – Donepezil, rivastigmine, and galantamine (Chisholm-Burns et al. 2013). Frontotemporal neurocognitive disorder (FTNCD) represents as a spectrum of neurocognitive diseases that compromise function of the frontal brain networks resulting in cognitive and behavioral deficits. FTNCD is a common cause of dementia among patients’ ages 45 – 65 years. This group of neurodegenerative conditions is…

Upon researching the internet, I came across an article that caught my attention right away: the “top 10 leading causes of death”. This particular article explains the top 10 leading causes of death in the United States in 2013. Nearly 75% of all deaths in the US are contributed by these ten diseases. Heart disease ranks number one with 611,105 deaths. In the United States heart diseases accounts for 1 in every 4 deaths affecting more men than women (Nichols, 2015). Cancer (malignant neoplasms)…

As it states in Source A “ Even without a ban, it will be upper-class parents who can afford pricey genetic technologies. “ this evidence shows that if their was no limits to genetic engineering then the rich people would become even more elite because not only would they have money but they also would not be plagued with the common genetic disease that the rest of the population would have to deal with. Also in Source A it states “Sooner or later, as the most glaring genetic liabilities will…

More Americans have died during the Civil War than any other war. 620,000 soldiers died in the line of duty. Two-thirds of these didn’t die from wounds. They died from diseases such as typhoid and dysentery. Civil War medicine was not yet advanced enough to connect a lack of hygiene with an influx of disease. Lack of hygiene in hospitals and camps also contributed to the spread of disease. Placing a latrine downstream away from the clean water supply was sometimes also overlooked. Disease spread…

about the same, the utilization rate of technological tools were about three times more in the US (Squires 2012). Another key point is the effects of changing demographic dynamics. Aging is a common concern discussed by many researchers. Since advancement in health care elevates the life expectancy, an increasing portion of aging population will lead to a higher health expenditure. Congressional Budget Office expects the elderly population to be more than half of the health spending by 2037…

In the late 1900s scientists were able to describe a rare congenital genetic disease called “1p36” for the first time. Later, in 2001, a girl named Sonia was born; two weeks after her birth, she had heart failure and her parents had to take her to the hospital due to low vital signs; that was the first time doctors noticed that there was something wrong with her. A couple of days later, they realized that not only her heart wasn’t functioning properly, but she had low muscle tone, and seizures.…

My internship is at UC Davis Medical Center in the Clinical Social Services Department. This semester, the interns are doing rounds in the hospital. What that means is that each week, I am in a different unit of the hospital shadowing a Social Worker and taking cases if I feel comfortable. With that being said, I have not had the opportunity to have a client for a long period of time. Next semester, I will have to chose one or two units that I want to work in and that is where I will have my own…