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Patient Special Conciderations Flashcards

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Conductive deafness (outer ear)

A

Otitis media
Cerumen
Bugs

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Sensorineural deafness

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Inability of nerve impulse to reach auditory center
Ski slope
Cookie bite
Presbycusis
Medications

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Visual impairments

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Macular degeneration
Retinopathy
Enucleation
Infection/disease

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Sensory aphasia

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Inability to understand spoken or written speech
(Wernickes area)

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Motor aphasia

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Inability to speak or organize the muscular movements to speak

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Global aphasia

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Profound impairment to receptive and expressive speech

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Edward’s syndrome

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Trisomy 18
Affects diaphragm, heart defects, kidney issues
95% die before 1st year

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Patau syndrome

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Trisomy 13
Multiple developmental abnormalities (cleft pallet)
Life expectancy less then 1 year

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Down syndrome

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Trisomy 21
Large tongue, small face and features, flattening back of head
Congenital heart disease

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Neuroses

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Depression, phobias, OCD

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Cerebral palsy

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Non-progressive disorder of movement and posture

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Types of cerebral palsy

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Spastic paralysis
Athetosis
Ataxia

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13
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What causes cystic fibrosis?

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Defective recessive gene inherited by each parent

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Multiple sclerosis

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Progressive autoimmune disorder what causes scattered patch of myelin in brain and spinal cord are destroyed

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Muscular dystrophy

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Slow but progressive degeneration of muscular fibers
Most common is duchennes

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Myasthenia gravis

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Autoimmune which muscles become weak and easily tired
-damage to muscular receptors responsible for transmitting nerve impulses

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Spina bifida

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Congenital defect in which part of one vertebrae fails to develop, leaving spinal cord exposed

18
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Occulta

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Outter part of vertebrae not completely formed (soft hair at site of defect)

19
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Meningocele

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Outer part of vertebrae split, spinal cord normal

20
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Mylomeninhocele

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Outer part of vertebrae split, spinal cord and meninges damaged and displaced through opening

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