Unit 13 1.1 The term Dementia is described by a number of symptoms such as memory lose, changes in mood, and unable to communicate normally. A mental decline in the ability to function in every day life. 1.2 Key functions of the brain affected by dementia are frontal lobe, temporal lobe, parietal lobe, occipital lobe, cerebrum and hippocampus. 1.3 Dementia can be mistaken for depression, delirium and age-related memory impairment because they are very similar in appearance. 2.1 The medical model sees the patient with dementia as a problem.
A 16-gauge IV catheter was inserted, and a lactated Ringer’s (LR) infusion was started. The triage nurse obtained the following history from the patient and his wife. C.W. has had idiopathic dilated cardiomyopathy (IDCM) for several years. The onset was insidious, but the cardiomyopathy is now severe, as evidenced by an ejection fraction (EF) of 13% found during a recent cardiac catheterization.
Assign appropriate E/M codes for the following five cases: • Initial consultation is performed for a 78-year-old woman with unexplained weight loss, abdominal pain, and rectal bleeding. A comprehensive history and examination is performed. This patient is a new patient and it is necessary to get the patients health and family history. Since the patient is a new patient she needs a comprehensive amount of data. It is very important to get the history to figure out what may be causing these symptoms.
1 Meet the Patient: Nancy Jackson, a 72-year-old Caucasian female, is brought to the Emergency Department at St. John's Medical Center, a Catholic facility, by her daughter, Gail. Mrs. Jackson, who asks the staff to call her Nancy, is complaining of right-sided weakness, a severe headache, and just not feeling well for the last 24 Hours. Clinical Manifestations: The Emergency Department (ED) nurse is completing the admission assessment. Nancy is alert but struggles to answer questions. When she attempts to talk, she slurs her speech and appears very frightened.
Why? d. What teaching interventions would you provide to the client after the change in prescriptions you recommended? (List at least 3 interventions) 2. Mary S. is an attorney (who is 48 years old) who has suffered from epilepsy for about 25 years and is taking the medication phenytoin. You are looking at her electronic medical record and note she has missed several of her quarterly MD appointments.
Patricia Wright 10-17-2009 Med. Term. Week2 Assign.4 MEDICAL REPORT Patient Name: Karen Foster Patient Number: 2009-7550-1 Birth Date: 02-14-1968 Report Date: 10-17-2009 Mrs. Foster is a 41 year old white female with a history of alcohol abuse. She is currently taking azathioprine for rheumatoid arthritis and furosemide for hypertension. She has recently been diagnosed with acute pancreatitis which is swelling (inflammation) of the pancreas.
141007 R41 John Recabar Profile of a depressed Anna I was depressed earlier this year. Coming from a family that has a history with mental disorder - my sister’s bipolar - it didn’t come as a shock for me to be plagued by the same mental warfare that my sister underwent. My experience with depression was a brief one, having experienced it for only a lengthy week. Anna however, has been battling clinical depression for almost eight years now. Anna has been battling depression since she was ten, although she was only professionally diagnosed when she was a mere fifteen year old.
I chose the topic of Alzheimer’s to do my interview on. I work at a nursing home and always deal with people who have Alzheimer’s. One resident, Lois, who I have been spending a lot of time with at work suffered from a stroke about a month ago at the age of 82. Her body was not affected by the stroke but her memory was. She now is being treated as though suffering from Alzheimer’s.
At this moment in time my client’s health problems are she is obese and has related diabetes type two. The treatment for the diabetes she has tried is byetta she had this for 12 months but did not seem to control the blood sugars. She now takes just metformin for the diabetes and has started a
They may lose the ability to smile, sit up without support and reflexes become abnormal. Swallowing may become impaired and muscles are rigid. Allie was in stage 6 of Alzheimer's Disease. She required some help with her ADLs. She was experiencing personality changes and she was not able to remember things in her life.