Subarachnoid hemorrhage

assessments, managing medications, ordering and interpreting radiology findings, and monitoring lab levels (Neurocritical, 2014). The main diagnoses the Neurocritical Nurse Practitioner must be educated on in detail include subarachnoid hemorrhage, intracerebral hemorrhage, traumatic brain injury, ischemic stroke, brain tumors, brain and spinal cord infections, spinal cord injury, neuromuscular disorders, seizure disorders, and more (Neurocritical, 2014). Having Neurosurgical Intensive Care…

During the Holocaust the Jews were tortured and kill. But were the benefits of science justified for the Jewish. Nazi doctors conducted almost as many as 30 different types of experiments on prisoners that were in the concentration camps. You will find out how the Holocaust start as well. They did these experiments to see what the German military could handle in war. You will also find that it wasn’t worth hurting and murdering people in the end. The Nazis started to target the jewish because…

numerous benefits including a decreased risk of oxytocin-induced tachysystole, fetal hypoxemia, maternal pain, placental abruption, uterine rupture, unnecessary cesarean birth for indeterminate/abnormal fetal heart rate patterns, and postpartum hemorrhage and infection. According to the protocol, Pitocin is started at 2mU/minute and increased by 2mU/minute; no more frequently than every thirty minutes based on the maternal and fetal response. The nurse should be monitoring the patient for the…

Amnesia or amnesic syndrome, is a shortage in memory caused by damage in the brain. The person with amnesia won’t be able to remember certain things. The extent of the damage determines whether the memory is fully or partially lost. Though having no sense of who you are is a common plot device in movies and television, real-life amnesia generally doesn't cause a loss of self-identity. Instead, people with amnesia are usually aware and know who they are, but may have trouble learning new…

1. On presentation, this patient’s overdose has resulted in the following symptoms: bradycardia, bradypnea, hypotension, hypothermia, hypoxia, and non-responsive to pain. For this patient, an endotracheal tube would be placed to protect the airway and start mechanical ventilation, since the patient is having difficulty maintaining spontaneous ventilation. This will also protect the airway from potential aspiration. Continuous oxygen therapy at 100% to help improve the patient’s hypoxia.…

the vertebral canal of the vertebral column, which is surrounded by three meninges: the dura mater, the arachnoid mater and the pia mater. Further the protection is provided by the cerebrospinal fluid(CSF), which surrounds the spinal cord in the subarachnoid space. The SC is roughly cylindrical and composed of an inner core of gray matter, which is surrounded by an outer covering of white matter. The gray matter is seen in cross section as an H- shaped pillar containing the cell bodies and…

and Ashley went to shower. As my uncle played with his daughter, it started to happen. Suddenly, he was not able to breathe anymore. He told Halyne to tell Ashley to call an ambulance. Slowly, blood began to drip out of his body. It was a subarachnoid hemorrhage, which led to him having a stroke. By the time the emergency vehicles arrived, it was already too late. My uncle died while playing with his six-year-old…

Organ donation, and the ethical issues surrounding it, has become a topic of discussion in recent years. Most ethical issues involve patients and family, but it can also affect nurses and physicians. The article Organ Donation after Circulatory Death, the authors highlight the ethical dilemmas of organ donation due to “non-heart beating” death. In such cases the patient must die within 60 minutes after being removed from life support to be eligible for organ donation. With the shortage of…

Brain scans are an important tool used by doctors to allow them to have a look at what might be doing on inside the brain giving a patient discomfort. Brain scans have a wide range of potential that has yet to be utilized by doctors. This type of imagery is only used when symptoms occur and once the issues have already arose. If a child received a brain scan as a baseline scan and then continued to receive a brain scan once every five years during their lifetime. It would be beneficial to both…

Use of Traditional Chinese Medicine in Pain Management Kevin Cates Hypothesis: TCM is an effective choice in pain management, specifically chronic pain and psychogenic pain of the lower back area. Chronic Pain and Pain Management: Chronic pain is a major health issue in our modern day society. It causes immense suffering for patients and their families, drains public health care resources and is a major detriment to society due to lost work productivity. Current western medical treatments are…