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EC Chp 19 Diabetic Emergencies And Altered Metnal Status Flashcards

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Reticular Activating System (RAS)

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Series of neurological circuits in the brain that control the fun actions of staying awake, paying attentions and sleeping.

Oxygen is needed to perfume the brain tissue, glucose is needed to nourish the brain tissues, and water is needed to keep brain tissue hydrated

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A lack of what rom the brain can result in an altered mental status?

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Oxygen is needed to perfume the brain tissue
Glucose is needed to nourish the brain tissues
And water is needed to keep brain tissue hydrated

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One of the most common causes of altered mental status is?

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Hypoxia

And remember to consider the possibilities of an airway and or breathing problem with a patient with AMS (altered mental status)

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Altered mental status an have the following indicators

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Rapid heart rate
Absent radial pulse
Pale skin
Delayed capillary refill

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You will determine a baseline mental status by doing what?

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AVPU

Can be accomplished by simply saying hello

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What is Insulin?

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A hormone produced by the pancreas or taken as a medication by many diabetics and assists the glucose molecules pass through the cells

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What are islets of Langerhans?

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Specialized clusters of cells in the pancreas that secrete insulin

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When does the pancreas secrete insulin?

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When the blood glucose rises above about 90mg/dL

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3 things that determine diabetic patients

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  1. They don’t produce insulin
  2. Don’t produce enough insulin
  3. Have a body that has become resistant to the insulin that is produced.
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About how many Americans have diabetes mellitus?

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Roughly 16 million or 1 in 17 people

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What is Diabetes mellitus defined?

Sugar diabetes or just diabetes

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The condition brought about by decreased insulin production or the inability of the body of the body cells to use insulin properly

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Type 1 Diabetes means?

Insulin-dependent diabetes

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Occurs when pancreatic cells fail to function properly and insulin is not secreted normally.

Typically would be prescribed synthetic insulin to supplement his inadequate naturally occurring insulin.

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Type 2 Diabetes means?

Non insulin dependent diabetes

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When the body’s cells fail to use the insulin properly. The pancreas may be secreting enough insulin, but the body is unable to use it to move glucose out of the blood and into the cells.

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Hypoglycemia

In Diabetes what could be the cause?

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Low blood sugar.

Takes too much insulin
Reduces sugar intake by not eating
Overexercises or overexerts self
Vomits a meal
Increases metabolic rate in conditions like fever or swelling
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The brain and body do not tolerate low levels of sugar, therefore what happens

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Hypoglycemia

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Body’s response to hypoglycemia?

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  • Fight or flight response

- liver then releases Glycogen ( form of stored sugar)

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Glycogen

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A form of stored sugar released by the liver in an attempt to raise blood glucose levels.

Signs of sympathetic discharge inlude pale, sweaty skin, tachycardia, and rapid breathing

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Signs and Symptoms of Hypoglycemia

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Confusion, stupor, unconsciousness, and seizures are common.
Constricted blood vessels give the patient pale and sweaty skin
Which increase pulse rate and respiratory rate

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Hyperglycemia

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High Blood sugar
Usually caused by a decrease in insulin
Which leaves sugar in the bloodstream rather then help it enter the cells

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Infection, stress or increasing dietary intake are factors in what?

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Hyperglycemia

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Hyperglycemia typically develops…

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over days and even weeks.

In contrast as with rapid onset of hypoglycemia

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Hyperglycemic patient may complain of ?

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Chronic thirst and hunger
Breathe very deeply and rapidly
Dry mouth, intense thirst, abdominal pain, and vomiting
Increase in urination and possibly nausea
In an attempt t to ride the blood of excess sugar

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Diabetic ketoacidosis

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The result of high blood sugar characterized by dehydration, altered mental status, and shock.

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Extremely high levels of sugar in the blood begin to draw water away from the body’s cells, what happens next?

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Profound dehydration

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The waste product of diabetic ketoacidosis

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Ketones

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Ketones can be described by?

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Chemicals released from the liver when you don’t have enough insulin in the your body to turn sugar into energy

Emits a fruity acetone Odor on his breath

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Sings of and symptoms of Hyperglycemia

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Overall dehydration
Signs and symptoms of shock
Tachycardia, rapid respiration’s, dropping blood pressure

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Children are more at risk of what regarding to diabetes?

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Hypoglycemia as they are more active and exhaust sugar more so

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How often should people with diabetes measure their glucose via a blood glucose meter?

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At least once a day and sometimes as often as 5-6 times a day

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Diabetes related complications
Or
Motivation to keep blood glucose levels within normal range?

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Heart disease, blindness, and kidney failure

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A value of less than 60 mg/dL in a Diabetes come with have ?

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Mild alteration in mental status or is diaphoretic for hypoglycemia

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Any value less than 50 mg/dL will have?

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Significant alterations in mental status and possible unresponsiveness.

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Glucose level higher than 300, patient may experience?

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Dehydration 
Severe shock,
Acetone breath
Deep and rapid breaths 
Warm, red, dry skin.
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Sepsis

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More severe collection of problems associated with the body’s response to an infection. Steps that once occurred locally but now are occurring throughout the whole body.

One of the most dangers causes of altered mental status

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Sepsis can cause hypovolemic shock and symptoms include:

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Altered mental status
Increased heart rate and respiratory rate
Low blood pressure
High blood glucose levels
Decreased capillary refill
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Seizure ( fit, spell, attack)

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A sudden change in sensation, behavior, or movement.
The most severe ones produce violent muscle contractions called convulsions.

It is not a disease in itself but rather a sign of some underlying defect, injury or disease.

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What are the two types of seizures

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Partial and generalized

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Partial Seizures ( focal motor, focal sensory, Jacksonian) are?

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Only one part or one side of the brain and often only one area of the body and patient may not lose consciousness

Tingling, stiffening, or jerking in just one part of body. May be an Aura, which is a sensation such as a smell, bright lights, a burst of colors or rising sensation

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Complex partial seizures are(psychomotor or temporal lobe)?

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Characterized by abnormal behavior that varies from person to person.
Confusion, glassy stare, aimless moving about , lip smacking or chewing or fidgeting with clothing

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Generalized Seizure is defined by?

And absent seizure (petit mal)?

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Affect of the entire brain and affect the consciousness

Is brief usually less than 10 seconds. Temporary loss of concentrations or awareness. May go unnoticed and often stop before adulthood or worsen.

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A generalized seizure called a Tonic-Clonic seizure is?

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The most likely to be called for EMS as the patient loses consciousness and has jerking movement of paired muscle groups.
Come without wearing and laser only a few minutes has 3 phases

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3 phases of a Tonic Clonic Seizure?

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Tonic Phase:
Clonic Phase
Postictal Phase;

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Tonic Phase

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The Body becomes rigid, stiffening no more than 30 sec. Breathing may stop , the patient may bite his tongue and bowl and bladder control could be lost

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Clonic Phase

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The body jerks violently usually no more than 1-2 minutes, foaming or drool from the mouth, lips and face become cyanotic

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Postictal Phase begins when?

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The convulsions stop, may regain consciousness and enter a state of drowsiness and confusion.
May remain unconscious for several hours and headache is common.

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Aura

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A sensation experience by a seizure patient right before the seizure which might be smell, sound or general feeing

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Most common causes of Seizures in adults and infants?

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failure to take prescribed antiseizure medication

6months - 3 years is high fever (febrile seizures)

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Other causes of Seizures

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Hypoxia, stroke, traumatic brain injury,
Toxins, Hypoglycemia, brain tumor
Congenital brain defects, infection
Metabolic, idiopathic (unknown)

Also Epilepsy, measles, mumps, eclampsia (pregnancy) and heat stroke

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Epilepsy

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A condition that causes seizures

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Patients experiencing a seizure, Care?

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  • Place patient on the floor or ground
  • loosen restrictive clothing
  • remove objects that my harm the patient
  • protect the patient from injury
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Status Epilepticus

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A prolonged seizure or situation when a person suffers two or more convulsive seizures without regaining full consciousness

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Absence seizures are?

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Ones that may go unnoticed by everyone except the person and knowledgeable members of his family. They often stop before adulthood but can worsen

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Stroke (cerebral vascular accident) CVA is…

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A condition of altered function caused when an artery in the brain is blocked or ruptured, disrupting the supply of oxygenated blood or causing bleeding in the brain

Death or injury of brain tissue that is deprived of oxygen

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An ischemic stroke is

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Can occur when a clot of embolism occludes an artery

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A stroke caused by bleeding into the brain is…

Frequently a result of long-standing blood pressure (hypertension)

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A hemorrhagic stroke

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A common sign of a stroke is one sided weakness, also referred to as?

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Hemiparesis

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Aphasia means?

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Difficulty communicating

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Receptive aphasia

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In this case the patient can speak clearly but cannot understand what you are saying.

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Transient Ischemic Attack (TIA)

Or Ministroke is when…

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A patient is weak on one side and having difficulty speaking, but is alert, oriented and perfectly normal without any evident weakness of speech.

However the patient has a complete resolution of his symptoms without treatment within 24 hours

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With TIA, small clots may be temporarily blocking circulation to part of the brain. When the symptoms resolve its because?

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The affected brain tissue only had a short period of hypoxia and did not sustain permanent damage. However they are at significant risk to having a full blown stroke

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When evaluating a patient for a stroke what do you ask the patient to do?
Cincinnati Stroke Scale

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  • Ask the patient to smile or show their teeth
  • ask the patient to close their eyes and hold their arms out straight (drifting)
  • ask them to say a phrase to check their speech
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The use of clot busting (thrombolytic) drugs in cases of ischemic stroke are

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The most advance stroke care, but time is of the essence

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Syncope

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Fainting or a brief loss of consciousness with spontaneous recovery

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Presyncope or near syncope?

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About to pass out

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Vertigo

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A sensitizing of your surroundings spinning around you

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Causes of syncope include…

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Hypoxia, hypoglycemia, and hypovolemia

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Vasovagal syncope

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Simple fainting. The result of stimulation of the vagus nerve

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Metabolic and structural causes of syncope

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Something is wrong with eh brain or the structures near it.

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In cases of syncope what ado you do for the patient in no immediate danger?

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Loosen clothing around the neck
Place the patient flat with raised legs if possible
Treat any injuries and transport

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