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therapy is used whenever the patient is functionally impaired. The drugs used will either boost levels of dopamine in the brain or they will mimic the effect of dopamine in the brain. The two drugs that are used in Parkinson are Carbidopa (a dopamine agonist) and Levodopa; they are the cheapest and most effective therapy. What levodopa does is it converts to dopamine after it crosses the blood-brain barrier (Fernandez 2012). All drugs that are used to treat Parkinson do the same thing, which is…

acceptable to both the parent and child (Woo & Wynne, 2012). Establish a return clinic visit in two weeks or sooner if symptoms are not well controlled. Prescriptive Drug Therapies Prescriptive drug therapies would include: • A Short-Acting Beta2 Agonist (SABA) for rescue (Woo & Wynne, 2012) such as: ProAir HFA inhaler 2 to 6 puffs up to two treatments 20 minutes apart as needed for wheezing, may use generic form. Dispense: 1 inhaler may refill x 2 Bethany Kirton…

medication to treat the disease is corticosteroids [6]. However, long-term use of corticosteroids isn 't recommended in the guideline because of the risk of serious side effects. Alternative treatment option for ITP is thrombopoietin (TPO) receptor agonists, which help bone marrow produce more…

LaMarquis Huston Professor Latonnja Key 04 Decemeber 2017 Insomnia night in and night out As you are listening to me, I know everyone is not suffer from Insomnia but I still will like to inform you because many people suffer and are not even aware of it.Insomnia is a health condition that causes an inability to sleep. Do you ever just find yourself up all night, Or just waking up in the middle of the night and not being able to return to sleep? These simple questions can help you figure out if…

An 18-year-old male is brought to the emergency department after suffering from yet another headache. The headaches are abrupt in onset, last for about an hour or so, and then subside for some time before the next episode occurs. The patient has had about three to five episodes per day for the past week and describes the pain as a 10/10 that localizes to either side of his head during an episode but never is felt on both sides at the same time. Associated symptoms during these episodes include a…

were staggering. At 18th month after initial treatment Half (48.4%) reported prescription opioid use during past month. Also, treatment response to brief bup-nx treatment was overwhelmingly poor, only 7% had successful opioid use outcome. The opioid agonist treatment and participation in extended treatment phase had the best outcome 16.7% success rate. Of particular interest is that in this population, the multivariable analysis in this study showed that greater pain severity at baseline was…

Alzheimer’s disease affects more than 15 million individuals worldwide from mild to severe. (Lilienfeld, 2006). It is a progressive and irreversible disease that leads to full dependency on a caretaker due to the decline in cognitive function and ability to perform daily tasks (Richarz, Gaudig, Rettig, & Schauble, 2014). Alzheimer’s disease is the most common form of dementia and normally occurs within individuals 60 years of age or older (Lilienfeld, 2006). Every twenty years the number of…

There are two main types of side effects associated with the use of Hydralazine. These are an extended influence of the drug’s pharmacologic effect, where these is headache, flushing, hypotension, nausea, tachycardia, dizziness, palpitation and angina pectoris, and can also cause salt retention in congestive heart failure (Arce et al. 2006).these adverse effects can be described even within the therapeutic range, conversely patients may withstand up to 800mg or more daily. Hydralazine poisonings…

summation of activity of many motor units with different contractile properties (Peterson, 2009). The possible mechanisms of neural adaptations are discussed in relation to motor unit recruitment and firing patterns, cortical plasticity, change in agonist activation and changes at the spinal level. CORTICAL PLASTICITY…

Pheochromocytomas are neural crest-derived tumors that produce catecholamines (such as epinephrine and norepinephrine) and arise mainly from the adrenal gland. Closely affiliated tumors of extra-adrenal paraganglia are also known as extra-adrenal pheochromocytomas. All these functional chromaffin tumors can result in substantial morbidity and mortality due to catecholamine oversecretion. Pheochromocytoma can have exceptionally variable clinical presentations - from rare and escalating…