Hemiplegia Case Studies

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A 12-year-old Palestinian male child who sustained a severe penetrating head injury from a rubber bullet -a metallic bullet covered with thin rubber- arrived to the emergency-department in a coma with Glasgow-coma-scale (GCS): 6/15.1 Examination on arrival revealed left hemiplegia and anisocoria (Right > Left).
The bullet entered “Entry-site” from the right fronto-temporal region (Panel A) and settled “Lodging-site” in the right parito-occipital region (Panel B and C). The outer rubber part of the bullet can be seen adhered to the bone at the entry site with multiple bony fragments around it (Panel A, arrow).2 Additionally, the inner metallic part of the bullet can be seen settled at the lodging site (Panel B and C).2
Patient underwent immediate

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Spastic Hemiplegia Case Study

affecting him. Presently, David lives with six other patients in a supporting facility. His father visits him twice a month and calls once a month, and they have a relatively good relationship. David had spastic hemiplegia cerebral palsy due to brain impairment at birth. Spastic hemiplegia is a type of cerebral palsy. It is inability of the muscle to relax and its affects one side of the body. Due to his reduced muscle tone he uses a walking frame to avoid injury as he frequently falls. He is on antacid…

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Anatomy Case paper

PATIENT JOHN DOE MEDICAL EXAMINATION AND MEDICAL HISTORY Case Study: You are a first-year RN student and you volunteered to work for San Antonio Hospital in the ER Department. Patient John Doe was brought by the ambulance after he collapsed at work. The triage nurse is assessing him for further evaluation by the ER Physician on duty. Based on your study of Anatomy and using your critical thinking skills, you were given the following criteria about Mr. Doe: 1. Personal History: 65 years…

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Essay on cerebral palsy

disturbed since of balance and depth perception. Most people think that Cerebral Palsy is caused by problems in the muscles but they are wrong. It is caused by abnormalities in parts of the brain that controls the movement of your muscles. In most cases of Cerebral Palsy the child is born with it but sometimes it won’t be detected until months or years later. There are a small number of children that get Cerebral Palsy from brain damage including child abuse, a fall, a motor vehicle accident, viral…

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Essay on Meningitis

meningitis is parasitic. It is usually caused by Naegleria fowleri, a microscopic ameba found in warm freshwater. The organism gains access to the brain through the nose and causes parasitic meningitis, a fatal but rare infection with only 31 reported cases from 2003 to 2012 (CDC, 2014). It is not contagious. Lastly, noninfectious meningitis is associated with cancer, Lupus, certain drugs, neurosurgeries and traumatic brain injuries and is beyond the scope of this paper (Huether & McCance, 2014). Encephalitis…

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Cerebral Palsy Essay

are results of factors occurring prenatally. These factors might include infection, malnutrition, and fetal anoxia. Factors that make up the other 20% can occur during or after birth, such as breech birth, low birth weight, falls, or abuse. In many cases it is impossible to determine exactly when the brain trauma occurred, but any action or condition that results in lack of brain oxygen (anoxia), hemorrhage, or brain damage can be the cause of CP. Since there are a variety of different ways in which…

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Psy 315 Week 2 Math Test Research Paper

(variable A) in three levels: token or coupon to rent a movie (A1), money $1.50 (A2) or food such as candy (A3). The dependent variable was two levels (variable B): the schedule that was disbursed at random (B1) or spread out by 15 minutes (B2). In this case, there are 6 conceivable groupings of these variables (etc. A1 B1, A1 B2, A2 B1, A2 B2, A3 B1, and A3 B1.). In order to disclose the main effects in the SPSS, you would push Analyze/General Linear Model/and Univariate. The output for SPSS places is…

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Aphasia And Physician-Assisted Suicide Case Study

the capability to read, write, make inquiries and commands reveals the significance. Much of this skill exists in in the left hemisphere of the brain, thus if damage occurs, language is altered. The patient in the case analysis, Mr. Brown displays an acquired condition, the case study reveals he inherited a deformity of his vascular system, surgery was vital because any defects can progress rapidly with age. From prior knowledge, surgery is risky concerning the arteries and blood vessels, as a result…

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Arf Case Study Essay

ARF Case Study Acute Renal Failure Case Study Directions: Please carefully read the following case study and answer the following questions in typed format. The resources that you will need to complete this case study include your textbook and drug book. Please include in text citations. This independent assignment is worth 25 points. Ann Hayes, age 68, initially was admitted to the hospital for elective surgical repair of an abdominal aortic aneurysm. Her surgery was documented…

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Kinesiology Tape Does Not Facilitate Muscle Performance

tape without much understanding of its mechanism. KinTape claims to increase cutaneous stimulation, which facilitates motor unit ﬁring, and consequently improves functional performance; however these, beneﬁts could be due to placebo effects. This study investigated the true effects of KinTape by a deceptive, randomized, and controlled trial. Thirty healthy participants performed isokinetic testing of three taping conditions: true facilitative KinTape, sham KinTape, and no KinTape. The participants…

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Essay School: Blood and Word Roots

joined to word roots to form terms that indicates a state, quality, condition, procedure, or process. PNEUMONIA and PSORIASIS are examples of medical conditions, while APPENDECTOMY and ARTHROSCOPY are examples of medical procedures. The suffixes in each case are underlined. Some suffixes combine with word roots to form adjectives, words that modify nouns by indicating quality or quantity or by distinguishing one thing from another. GASTRIC, CARDIAC, FIBROUS, ARTHRTIC, and DIAPHORETIC are all examples…

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