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Ch. 1: Intro to Concepts of Pathology Flashcards

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Health: WHO

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A state of complete physical, mental, and social well-being. Biologic, psychologic, sociologic, emotional, spiritual

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Health Process

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Dynamic, varies with changes in interaction between individual and internal/external environment

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Disease

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Biologic or psychologic alteration that results in a malfunction of an organ or system (biomedical condition). Might be occurring without someone knowing.

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Illness

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Sickness or deviation from healthy state. Perception and response to not being well. Can occur in absence of obvious pathological process

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Acute Illness

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-Rapid onset and short duration
-Not necessarily more severe
-Physical symptoms, cognitive awareness, emotional response
-Full recovery with no complications

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Chronic Illness

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-Permanent Illness or disability
-Residual physical or cognitive disability
-Need for special rehab/long term management
-Decreased QoL
-Many are modifiable through behavior and lifestyle changes

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Premorbid personality that impacts illness

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-Dependent
-Narcissistic
-Stoic

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Common reactions to illness

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Fear/anxiety, denial (noncompliance)

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Pathology

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-Branch of medicine that investigates essential nature of disease (structural and functional changes caused)
-Clinical: applying to solution of clinical problems

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Pathogenesis

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Development of unhealthy conditions or disease

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Why is pathology important?

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How it affects a person’s functional abilities and how they interact with their community

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WHO ICIDH: Impairment

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Functional/loss, organ level, can’t walk correctly

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WHO ICIDH: Disability

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Activity/limitation, person level, can’t go shopping

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WHO ICIDH: Handicap

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Social disadvantage, societal level, can’t do activities they want to

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Executive Functions

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Cortical functions involved in formulating goals and planning, initiating, monitoring and maintaining behavior

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Behavior

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Motor, effective, and social

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Complex Problem Solving

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Effective handling of new info

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Info Processing

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Speed with which info travels in brain

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Memory Deficits

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Result from a failure to store or retrieve info

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Learning Disability

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Difficulty acquiring info in specific domains (person has normal or near normal intelligence)

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WHO ICF Framework

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-Health Condition
-Body structure/function, activity, participation
-Environmental, personal factors
-Holistic!

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Body Structures and Functions

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Physiologic or psychologic functions, impairments

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Activity

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Execution of specific tasks, what they want to do

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Participation

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In daily life, job/hobby

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Questions PT asks

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-How condition affects functional ability?
-Precautions?
-Vital signs?
-How condition affects plan of care?

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Primary Prevention

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-Removing/reducing risk factors
-Ex: helmet, non smoking, speed limits, diet education

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Secondary Prevention

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-Promoting early detection of disease and preventative measures to avoid complications
-Ex: TB test, colonoscopy, mammogram

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Tertiary Prevention

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-Limit impact of established disease
-Rehab
-Return to highest level of function and prevent severe disability
-Ex: Equipment to help person stand

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Genomic Variation

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Sequence differences among individuals may be associated with health and disease

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Three Categories of Genomic Variation

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-Changes in single base pairs (polymorphism)
-Insertions and deletions of a small or large number of base pairs
-Structural rearrangements on a chromosome

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Precision Medicine

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Tailoring plan of care to individual genomic and cellular info. Also accounts for info about environment, activities, behavior, social network

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Genetic factors are associated with

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-Disease risk
-Severity and progression of the disease
-Variation in response to exercise and rehab programs

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