An ischemic stroke is typically caused by excess buildup of plague on the blood vessel walls that narrows blood flow dramatically. A hemorrhagic stroke typically occurs when the blood vessel walls weaken over time, which leads to a bulge or rupture of the vessel. Aneurysm is the most common type of hemorrhagic strokes with a low survival rate. They also kill brain cells, which can never regenerate. The affect of strokes on the body can range between mild dizziness or slight numbness to impaired speech and loss of motor control.
A patient who has had multiple surgeries could also cause a lot of tissue damage and could increase the patients blood loss. 3. potential hazards: fluid balance recording is often inadequate or inaccurate, due to staff shortages, lack of training or lack of time. Diseases such as diabetes, gastroenteritis and Addison's disease. Injury or inflammation. 4.
Unit 1 Case Study 1: Tell me about blood. 1. Lower than normal Hematocrit indicates Anemia. Hematocrit does not have enough Hemoglobin which is an oxygen carrying protein in red blood cells that results in having Iron, B12 and Folic Acid deficiencies. The main causes of developing Anemia include: medications and pregnancy, but the more serious causes include: kidney disease and cancer of the kidney, also leukemia and lymphoma.
It also may due to a hemorrhage. - When the clot is block or impaired of the blood flow, it will depriving the brain from essential oxygen and nutrient. B. Hemorrhagic Stroke - Occured when blood vessel ruptured and causing leakage of blood in or around the brain. Basically, the term cerebrovascular accident (CVA) is used interchangeably with stroke to refer to the vascular conditions of brain. Clinically, a variety of facal deficits are possible including changes in the level of consciousness and impairments of sensory, motor, cognitive, perceptual and language functions.
Chronic inflammation that accompanies this disease can lead to the formation of ulcers. Ulcers are open sores that are characterized as deep with defined borders in Crohn’s patients. Again because the disease can affect the entire GI tract, the ulcers can form in the mouth all through to the anus. Fistulas can form from ulcers extending through the intestinal wall. Fistulas are abnormal connections between different parts of the intestine or another organ.
The truth is: It’s both. As a lipid, a substance with an oily or waxy nature, cholesterol is a vital element in cell membranes, a main component in hormones, a protective coating for nervous tissues, and allows certain biological acids to digest and process foods. However, anything taken in excess can produce dangerous effects. This same chemical that is essential for the proper function of the body can also cause of some extremely serious medical conditions. An excess of cholesterol has been linked in many cases to leading to heart attack, stroke, or atherosclerosis (fat deposits on the inner walls of arteries).
A wound is a disorder in the normal anatomical structure and function of living tissue which may be caused by physical, chemical, microbiological or immunological injury. Globally wounds also represent a significant burden on the patients and health care professionals or givers. Wound infection is also significant in that they are the most common nosocomial infection (Orrett, 2002) . Infection of the wound is the successful invasion, and proliferation by one or more organisms anywhere within the body’s sterile tissues and sometimes accompanied with pus formation (Calvin, 1998).Wound infection may result to prolong hospital stay, delay wound healing, increases cost of health care and morbidity in surgical patients (Orrett, 2002).. Wound infection with multiple organisms may even result to multiple organ failure or death of the patient when it becomes chronic.
If the surface of the plaques break or rupture, blood cells, called platelets will clump or clot at that site to try and repair the artery. The clot or clump can block the artery which can lead to heart attack. There are several risk factors associated with CAD and could possibly build up on each other and make CAD an even greater risk. First, Men have a greater risk of CAD than women, although women’s risk of getting CAD increase after they go through menopause. As you get older, your age increases the risk of narrowed and damaged arteries, which of course leads to CAD.
If the circulation can not be established it can result in gangrene of the leg. If the injury is severe then it may not possible to repair the blood vessels. These days the technical skills have also improved and results are getting better. But the extensive damage to the muscles due to the crush injury may not result in viable leg even after the repair of the blood vessels. Repair of the blood vessels and re-establishment of circulation can also result in re-perfusion injury and muscle necrosis if there was long gap between the injury and repair.
This report further elaborates the most common but fatal diseases on human body due to excessive alcohol intake. One of the diseases linked to excessive alcohol drinking is liver fibrosis that ultimately results in liver cirrhosis. In both these cases, the normal structure and function of the liver is altered by excessive disposition of extracellular matrix in liver. The liver looses its capability to perform its primary function: detoxification, which leads to further complications in a human body. Because of active cirrhosis, individuals are more susceptible to deadly infections such as hepatitis (Jamal & Morgan, 2003).