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Case Study: Nursing Management of a patient with Stroke Introduction This essay will consider the case of John, a stroke patient. Biological as well as psycho-social aspects of his condition will be presented and the impact on his health condition; He is an active smoker and occasionally drinking over the weekend (2 bottles of wine), recently retired and used to work as a lorry driver for Ford. He lives alone, independently. His wife died 2 years ago and his only daughter lives nearby. He is…

disease for this assignment. The main reason is because it seems everyone around me has high blood pressure. A coworker has high blood pressure and did not take his medications and ended up having a really bad stroke. I didn’t realize until that happened that it could be as serious as a stroke to people. My husband has high blood pressure and I am on him all the time about taking his medicine. It runs in my family as well, my great-grandmother, my grandmother, and my mom have passed it down. All…

(2006)) depicts the four statements discussed in class, which are material/structural explanation, cultural/ behavioural explanations, social selection and the historical context. (Asthana, S., & Halliday, J. (2006)) clarifies that the cultural and behaviour explanation…

These different strokes can lead to aphasia and, more specifically, if the lesion is in Broca’s area it can cause Broca’s aphasia. When an ischemic stroke occurs, a blood clot blocks a blood vessel stopping the flow of blood to that specific area of the brain. Within the category of ischemic strokes there are embolic and thrombotic strokes. An embolic stroke occurs when a blood clot moves from another location in the body to a blood vessel…

Personal and Medical History of a Stroke Patient This week part of my clinical experience involved taking care of a patient 51 year old female named L.B. who has a history of hypertension, hyperlipidemia, and who had a stroke last December. She was hosting a christmas party at home when she had a stroke. She was drinking and socializing with her family. At first her son-in-law thought she just had too much to drink because she wasn’t “making sense” so he helped back to her bed to “sleep…

goal to prevent one million heart attacks and strokes by the year 2017. The co-leaders in this effort to decreases heart attacks and strokes are the Center for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) and the Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services. Death, one out of every three occur by heart attack and strokes in the United States, costs billions of dollars in health care which can be prevented. Four preventable risk factors occurring in heart and stroke deaths include smoking, obesity,…

What causes death? Heart disease, cancer, and strokes are the top three causes of death in America. They account for sixty-six percent of all deaths in America. There are many things that cause death, but what is the main cause of death? First, what is death? Death in short means to no longer be alive. In the medical profession there is some debate about what is considered dead, mostly when considering organ donors. As for now the legal standard of death is to die and be pronounced deceased or…

In this MRI T-2 Weighted image, the red arrow indicates that there is an excess of Cerebral Spinal Fluid in the intracranial cavity. A condition known as Hydrocephalus, meaning (water in the brain), is caused by an excess of CSF in the intracranial cavity (Blumenfeld, 2010 p. 155). Hydrocephalus can result from an excess of CSF production, obstruction of flow at any point in the ventricles or subarachnoid space, or a decrease in reabsorption via arachnoid granulations (Blumenfeld, 2010 p.…

In 1997, the American Heart Association brought together the organization’s stroke-related activities as American Heart Association/American Stroke Association. In an effort to get women involved in increasing stroke awareness, The Power of Women in Media was created as a brand that symbolizes women banding together through the effective use of social and traditional media to increase stroke awareness and whose mission it is to empower women to begin a movement that will stimulate collective…

Hematomas are stationed swellings that are filled with blood caused by trauma to the location of the injury. The bleeding is usually caused by a break in the wall of blood vessels. These localized bleedings are mostly clotted and exists inside of an organ or soft tissue space, such as muscle. Various locations of hematomas include under the finger or toe nails, in the cartilage of an ear, in the muscles, pelvic bone, liver, spleen, kidney, and in other organs of the body. Treatment plans vary…