Intracranial hemorrhage

Is your brain moving in ways it shouldn’t be? Well if it is moving too much you may have a concussion. A concussion is traumatic head injury. You usually get a concussion when you receive a blow to the head. You can receive a concussion in any sport but the most popular sport to receive one in is in football. Concussion cause the most fatalities in football. Throughout this essay you will learn many new things like symptoms, CTE (Chronic Traumatic Encephalopathy), some famous people that has had…

Prolonged labor is when labor lasts for twenty hours or more for first time mothers and fourteen hours or more for previous mothers. This condition is also known as failure to progress. During the first stage of labor, a prolonged latent phase will occur. This phase may cause exhaustion and become emotionally draining for laboring mothers. However, there is not much cause for concern. The concern is when the prolonged labor occurs during the active phase of birth. If prolonged labor occurs…

Nursing is one of the most dangerous professions in terms of the rate of musculoskeletal injuries caused when moving patients. There is a significant amount spent on workman’s compensation claims related to these injuries. At the same time that hospitals face expenses related to workman’s compensation claims, hospitals face the challenge of only being paid the Medicare inpatient prospective payment system (IPPS) rate for hospitalizations based on Medicare severity diagnosis-related groups…

Epilepsy is a disorder with numerous possible causes. Epilepsy is classified according to cause in three types: 1. Cryptogenic epilepsy 2. Symptomatic epilepsy 3. Idiopathic epilepsy Cryptogenic epilepsy is describe as those epilepsy whose causes are not found. Symptomatic epilepsy is when they are associated to identifiable disease or brain abnormalities and last type is idiopathic epilepsy. Idiopathic epilepsy is diagnosed when a genetic cause for the seizure is suspected (Semah et al., 2002).…

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…

within a 24 hour period (Genzler el al., 2013). Nursing interventions that were consider were: assessment, administration of medication, suctioning, repositioning, hygine, oral care, bath, shampoo, shave, incontinence care, wound cate, ROM, linen change, weight, application of splints or binders and others. To collect the ETCO2 data a noninvasive Infinity Microstream pod with Oridion’s Microstream technology was used (Genzler el al., 2013). The ETCO2 values were collected 5 minutes before the…

Stroke is a cerebrovascular accident with sudden onset of focal neurological deficits(s) from either infarction or hemorrhage within the brain. • Ischemic stroke (thrombotic or embolic); 87% • Hemorrhagic stroke (intracerebral or subarachnoid); 13% Risk factors • Age: >45 years; highest during the 7th and 8th decades • Male > Female (3:1), equalizes after menopause • Family history/genetics • Prior stroke or TIA • Smoking, heavy alcohol use, substance abuse (cocaine, amphetamines) •…

Dilated fundus exam showed blurred optic disc margins with no hemorrhages or vessel obscurations. Extensive work up for papilledema and papillitis including B-scan, intracranial pressure Codman monitoring, infectious and autoimmune panel was unrevealing. On a subsequent visit, our patient presented with intermittent headaches and blurred vision. At that point, the ophthalmic…

Hemophiliais an inherited bleeding disorder in which the blood does not clot normally due to a lack of clotting protein. Children with hemophilia bleed for a longer time than others after an injury. Hemophilia commonly is of two types –A and B (uncommon is haemophilia C). There are various clotting factors in blood which are required for clotting of blood in the event of an injury. Deficiency of certain clotting factors can impair the clotting mechanism and increase the bleeding time. Hemophilia…

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…