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A Multi-Disciplinary team (MDT) contains health professionals that work in partnership with clients to produce better health outcomes REF. They provide care that is efficient and effective (MOH, 2014c). Depending on the stage of the long term condition the MDT members differ in specialised fields that offers expertise and specific skills beneficial to the patient (MOH, 2014c) At present the aim of Sues MDT members is to help her self-manage her diabetes, with diet, exercise and medication.…

Overview Diabetes is a metabolic condition that causes the body’s blood glucose (sugar) levels to rise higher than normal. Type 2 diabetes was originally known as “adult-onset” or “non-insulin dependent” diabetes, though it has changed because type 2 diabetes may be diagnosed before adulthood and sometimes needs treatment with insulin. Type 2 diabetes is quite different than type 1 diabetes. In type 2 diabetes, the pancreas secretes too much insulin ultimately trying to keep up with the body’s…

Case Study Assignment #1- Stroke Patient Assessment Introduction Stroke is the single leading cause of adult disability in Canada, also accounting for one third of all deaths (Ontario Stroke Network, 2017). Approximately 14,000 Canadians die from strokes annually, and around 430,000 Canadians live with the debilitating effects of stroke (Ontario Stroke Network, 2017). For the purpose of this assignment and to maintain patent confidentiality, the examined patient will be referred to as a…

CC: “Nosebleed that won’t stop” HPI: A 66 year old white male, with history of Type II diabetes, gout, hypertension and coronary artery disease status post 3 stent placement most recent 2009. was transferred to UF Health, from a medical center in The Villages, Florida for ENT evaluation of persistent unilateral epistaxis of the right nostril. The three days prior to admission, the patient admitted that while taking a shower he cleared his nose and “red chunks” were seen, he also noted some…

The purpose of the homeostatic system is to maintain a stable environment despite fluctuations in the external environment, homeostasis meaning ‘same state’. Glucose homeostasis refers to maintaining blood glucose levels in the human body. Glucose is one of the most important energy sources. For various tissues in the body, such as the brain, glucose is the only substance used. It is important that there is a continuous supply of glucose for this reason. For homeostasis of the internal…

The word family is said to be sets of interacting people that are related by blood, marriage, or adoption that interdependently perform important functions by meeting expected roles. (Edelman, Kudzma, and Mandle. Chp 7. Pg 172 (2010). Each family has its values, cultures, beliefs and practices that influence their health and family health either negatively or positively. How each family relates and handle the everyday changes by include each other within the family, will produce health…

Diabetes type 2. Prevention is better than treatment. Jóhanna Guðmundsdóttir Diabetes type 2 is common disease a disease that couse cronic hyperglycaemia. The disease and it´s complications can by life threatening and reduse the quality of life. It‘s lifelong disease and usually begins in people over forty. The disease is strongly assosiated with obesity and physical inactivity.1 Over the last few decades the disease has been increaseing in the western countries following the obesity pandemic…

Hernandez, M., Mollo, A., Marsal, J. R., Esquerda, A., Capel, I., Puig-Domingo, M., & Mauricio, D. (2015). Insulin secretion in patients with latent autoimmune diabetes (LADA): half way between type 1 and type 2 diabetes: action LADA 9. BMC Endocrine Disorders, 15(1), 1-13. doi:10.1186/1472-6823-15-1. The authors included 95 total participates diagnosed with either LADA (n=32), T1DM (n=33), and T2DM (n-30) between the ages of 30-70 to study the levels of C-peptide and insulin secretion…

Through weeks one and five, I discussed childhood obesity and how the medical condition starts in the home. Whether the condition is inherited, brought on by diabetes or caused from a mental condition it generally starts in the home. It has been a problem in homes, schools and in adulthood, but does not stop there. Obesity has become an issue because it still has not reached it source enough, the home. After obesity falls into adulthood it can cause other medical conditions such as, certain…

Reason for Referral- A community psychiatrist at local outpatient clinic referred Michael Stevens, due to his group home bringing him in for an outpatient appointment, because of aggressive behaviors, to include homicidal and suicidal threats with no plan. While at the appointment the psychiatrist reports that the client was rambling, having racing thoughts, severe paranoia, disorganized thoughts and speech, tangential speech, flight of ideas, as well as A/H command type telling him to “kill his…