What an amazing organism with several organ systems working together for a common goal, keeping us alive and functioning properly. Sometimes accidents happen, which severely affect our bodily functions. Accidents put us in the hospital, on bed rest, until we are able to rehabilitate and get back to a normal way of life. As we become immobilized, our body’s systems face many hazards. You would not think that simply lying in bed all day would pose serious risks to your health.
A relative humidity of 60% or more hampers sweat evaporation, which hinders your body's ability to cool itself. If you live in an urban area, you may be especially prone to develop heat stroke during a prolonged heat wave, particularly if there are stagnant atmospheric conditions and poor air quality. In what is known as the "heat island effect," asphalt and concrete store heat during the day and only gradually release it at night, resulting in higher night time temperatures. Those most susceptible (at risk) individuals to heat strokes include: a) infants and children up to age 4 b) the elderly (often with associated heart diseases, lung diseases, kidney diseases, or who are taking medications that make them vulnerable to dehydration and heat strokes), c) athletes d) individuals who work outside and physically exert themselves under the sun
Cerebrovascular Accident By Mike Smith RADT153 Radiography Patient Care Cypress College Just what is a cerebrovascular accident (CVA) one might say? A cerebrovascular accident otherwise known as a stroke occurs when the blood supply leading to the brain is interrupted or reduced; causing the tissue in the surrounding area to become oxygen deprived, which can lead to brain damage. This can be caused either by a type of blockage, known as ischemic stroke or by a rupture in a blood vessel, a hemorrhagic stroke. There is also a condition called a transient ischemic attack, where the individual for a brief period of time shows symptoms that are similar to a stroke. About 85 percent of strokes are ischemic strokes (Stroke, 2014).
Clients are much more mobile than in the past, which increases their demands of hospital standards. Hospitals have to respond with improvements in quality, cost efficiency, ability to shorten the health care process and utilize medical facilities and human resources more effectively to remain competitive. "The aim of a value chain framework is to maximize value creation while minimizing costs" (www.wikipedia.org). Hospitals are looking for creative ways to remain competitive and differentiate themselves from the others. An example of a value chain activity would be the hospital you work for bringing on an expert cardiac surgeon, revamping and updating the cardiac unit to a state of the art facility, then marketing the hospital as a center of cardiac excellence.
Communication Paper Susan Hall HCS/490 Oct. 10, 2011 Dr.Eboni Green Communication Paper One benefit to the patient with the use of electronic records is that it is effiencient. Electronic medical record is a new way of record keeping, it is the process of moving patient’s records from paper and someone putting the records up and moving them to a computer. Computers are able to store more information, which makes this better for the patient and the doctor, as well as the insurance companies Privacy rule is balanced that it permits disclosure of personal health information needed for patient care and other purposes that are important. The security rules are a series of administrative, physical, and technical safeguards to cover entities
As medical groups, in general, have become more responsive to patient needs, and as patients have become more courageous and more vocal in making their needs known, urgent care practices have become more like family practices, and family practices have adopted some of the traditional operational characteristics of the urgent care centers: lengthening hours of operation, opening the doors on the weekends, and offering walk-in appointments. Urgent care medicine, and the centers that offer urgent care services, have not evolved to a state of perfection; they are not the best practice of medicine. They simply exhibit, as a group, some of the best
Invades nasopharynx where it replicates & spreads down to lower airway via aspiration of upper airway secretions. Causes necrosis of respiratory epithelium of small airways, peribronchiolar mononuclear infiltration & plugging of the lumens with mucus and exudate. The small airways become variably obstructed; this allows adequate inspiratory volume but prevents full expiration. This leads to hyperinflation & atelectasis. Serious alterations in gas exchange occur with arterial hypoxemia & CO2 retention resulting from mismatching of pulmonary ventilation (gas exchange w/in lungs) and perfusion.
Outcome 1 Know what a stroke is 1.1 Identify the changes in the brain associated with stroke Heart attacks and strokes are usually due to cardiovascular disease, a condition featuring body-wide damage to the delicate lining of the arteries the tubes that carry oxygen and nutrient-rich blood to all the organs, tissues and cells in your body and to the brain. The psychological, behavioural and emotional changes that take place after a stroke are part caused by physical damage to the brain. When the brain cells are damaged the sensations and parts of the body controlled by the cells can no longer function properly. This usually affects the left hand side of the body. But I personally have seen someone who has had a stroke and it has
This can reduce the readmission process and rate at the organization along with financial gain and improving the satisfaction of patients. Emergency room wait times also can be improved to reduce the financial stability of the healthcare organization. Often times, there are so many patients waiting in the emergency room to be seen, making time is hard to attend to every patient at an adequate time frame. By improving those areas mentioned at the facility, the organization can focus on the mission and the commitment of good service and performance at the
Psychodynamic methods are only effective on certain patients whereas drug treatment corrects the chemical balance in the brain and will become effective on almost every patient with the right usage of drugs. Counselling is a very good way of relieving the patient of their inner troubled emotions and to over come the illness but is not as reliant as the medical approach, drugs are widely used today for mental illness sufferers and shows that it is effective and a quicker solution than the analysis of dreams. Sigmund Freud’s methods were to be effective but only in a small degree and it could not be certain that that patient was completely ‘cured’ from their illness, drugs were much more reliable for patients and easier for them to be accepted into society once more helping them mould back into normality like they had once