Anticonvulsant

Constipation-Medium risk. Goal: Rigoberto will maintain regular bowel elimination through the use of medications and diet for the next 12 months AEB no need for fleet enemas or rectal suppositories. Rigoberto did not have any documented or reported constipation episode. He did not require any enemas, suppositories or manual impaction checks. EGD and Colonoscopy was not indicated. Diagnostic fecal occult blood test on 03-10-17 was negative. He has an active diagnosis of Constipation for what…

Tangles destroy a vital cell transport system made of proteins. In healthy areas, the transport system is organized in orderly parallel strands. Nutrients and other materials needed by neurons travel on these tracks. A protein called tau helps the tracks stay straight. In areas where tangles are forming, tau collapses into twisted strands called tangles. The tracks cannot stay straight and nutrients and other materials cannot reach the neurons. These cells eventually die due to a lack of…

Henry’s Affliction with Conduct Disorder Conduct Disorder can be defined as a persistent pattern of antisocial behaviors and violation of age-appropriate societal norms by a child. Children with conduct disorder often display antisocial behavior such as severe aggression toward people and animals, destruction of property, deceitfulness, theft, and serious violation of rules. Antisocial behavior is characterized by anything that would be considered unacceptable behavior by the majority of people…

become hopeless. Rehabilitation, counseling, community resources and pharmacotherapy may be included in treatment of the alcohol abuser. Pharmacotherapy prescribed by the medical professional may include benzodiazepines for substitution therapy, anticonvulsant medications for the management of withdrawal seizures, and multivitamin therapy with thiamine may be ordered by the attending physician. Alcoholics Anonymous (AA) is a peer support organization found in just about every community to…

I believe that the researchers research method was good they had the right number of people selected and ensured that they would have the participants follow specific guidelines throughout the treatments. I think that there was enough information to inform the reader and overall I believe that this was a great empirical article. In the article Mind, body, emotions and spirit: reaching to the ancestors for healing the issue discusses the meaning of the personal integrated inner body, mind,…

Introduction Stevens Johnson syndrome (SJS) and toxic epidermal necrolysis (TEN) are acute life-threatening skin diseases characterized by extensive epidermal sloughing at the dermoepidermal junction resulting from keratinocyte apoptosis. 1 Both TEN and SJS are rare, affecting approximately 1 or 2 persons per 1, 000,000 populations annually, and are considered medical emergencies, as they are potentially fatal. 2 The exact molecular pathogenesis of TEN and SJS are not fully understood. TEN…

Neuropathic pain whether based on an injury or a result of a form of dysfunction from the nervous system is still a condition which better treatment options are still being researched. Neuropathic pain can even be divided further into peripheral and central neuropathic pain. While peripheral pain may result from a disease, a more central neuropathic pain may result from damage to brain or spinal cord. [] Despite numerous medications in the market and therapy treatments which patients endure,…

Why binge eating disorders affect more to teenagers? Every three teenagers who seek treatment for their weight are compulsive eaters. In 1959, Albert Stunkard (a professor of the University of Pennsylvania) was the first person to describe binge eating as a medical disorder in obese people. In a study done with a group of patients with obesity, Stunkard made the observation that each of the patients had a pattern of nocturnal ingestion in which he called it “Night Eating Syndrome.” However, in…

causes stiff muscles or muscle spasms. However patients that are allergic to penicillin or metronidazole are prescribed tetracycline instead which is another antibiotic that can be used to treat tetanus. Doctors can also authorize the use of anticonvulsants, such as Valium, to relax the muscles in order to prevent spasms and work as a sedative.…

An atypical antipsychotic that is used for the treatment of schizophrenia, schizoaffective disorder, and bipolar disorder that will be discussed is quetiapine (trade name Seroquel). Clinical trials studying the mechanism which quetiapine acts on iontropic glutamate receptors in comparison to haloperidol a convention antipsychotic and clozapine which is also an atypical antipsychotic show significant differences in their effects on NMDA, glutamatergic, and AMPA receptors elucidating possible…