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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…

cerebral vascular accident (CVA), also known as a stroke, occurs when there is a lack of blood flow to a portion of the brain. According to the International Stroke Center1, about 795,000 people in the United States suffer a stoke each year. Greater than two-thirds of those who survive a CVA receive rehabilitation services after being hospitalized.2 It is estimated that over $34 billion is spent each year on health care for patients who have suffered a CVA. Functional deficits vary depending on…

LITERATURE REVIEW Stroke is one of the major health problems worldwide and a leading cause of disability. But the treatment options for the management of stroke are limited. Thrombolytic reperfusion with recombinant tissue plasminogen activator (t-PA) is employed in acute phase in only less than 3% of all ischemic stroke patients while standard treatments involving rehabilitation provide some benefits for the recovery during chronic phase. However, many high-profile failures in a…

Occupational Therapy Practice in Hospital-based Stroke Rehabilitation? I chose this article because I am very interested in learning more about the rehabilitation process and how effective that process is for stroke victims. Also, I find the topic in this specific article interesting because it focuses on explaining the impact rehab can have on a person while in the hospital immediately following his or her stroke. This article, like the other articles I chose, focus on how Occupational Therapy…

“ A stroke occurs when the blood supply to part of your brain is interrupted or severely reduced, depriving brain tissue of oxygen and nutrients”(Mayo Clinic Staff). “Within an hour, the nerve cells in that area of the brain become damaged and die. As a result, the part of the body controlled by the damaged area of the brain cannot work properly” (“Stroke”). Therefore, this leads to the different types of strokes, which are Acute Ischemic stroke and Hemorrhagic stroke. “ In an ischemic stroke,…