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sickness or deviation from a healthy state
Illness
rapid onset, short duration
Acute illness
Permanent impairment
Chronic illness
biologic or psychologic alteration that results in a malfunction of the body organ or system
Disease
of new diagnoses of a condition in a specific period of time like a year in relation to who was at risk at the beginning of the year
Incidence
of people with a specific disease at a point regardless of when
Prevalence
Frequency of disability within a population
Morbidity
of deaths related to a condition
Mortality
Remove and reduce risk factors
Primary prevention
Promote early detection; preventative measure to avoid further complication
Secondary prevention
Limits the impact of current disease
Tertiary prevention
o Ex] regular exercise, good diet, seat belts, immunizations
What type of prevention?
Primary
Skin tests for TB, mammography and colonoscopy are examples of what type of prevention?
Secondary
Rehab and chemo are examples of what kind of prevention?
Tertiary
finite event that is a disturbance of cerebral function due to abnormal neuronal discharge
Seizure
Seizures are reaction of the brain to?
Stress Sleep deprivation Fever Alcohol Drugs
If someone gets seizure in childhood, whats the most likely cause?
Idiopathic
Signs and symptoms of seizures can be triggered by:
Stress Poor nutrition No meds Flickering lights Illness/Fever No sleep Emotional Heat
Types of generalized seizures
Absence (petit mal) Tonic Clonic Tonic-Clonic (grand mal) Atonic Myoclonic
In younger population; doesn’t persist beyond age 20
Brief loss of consciousness but doesn’t lose postural tone
Come back to full orientation after seizure
Absence seizure
Describe tonic seizure
Rigid and paused movement like tree trunk; muscle contraction continues
What can lead to cyanosis with tonic seizures?
Arrest of respiratory muscles
Repetitive Clonic jerking of extremities and head
Clonic seizure
They lose consciousness and have an aura (feel its going to happen)
Tonic-Clonic
Define status epilepticus
Seizure either doesnt stop right away or they occur too fast after one another so they dont have time to regain consciousness
Describe atonic seizure
Rag doll loss of muscle tone
Sudden bride contractions that are localized to a few muscles or 1 or more extremities
On and off moments
Associated with variety of rare neurodegenerative disorders
Myoclonic
Two types of focal seizures
Simple partial and complex partial
Which seizure affects one side?
Simple partial seizure
Are conscious
Involves unilateral hemisphere
Starts with motor, sensory or autonomic phenomena
Simple partial
Can get temporary blindness with this seizure
Simple partial seizure
Impaired consciousness but not lost
Lasts 30 sec to 3 min
Discharge arises from mostly temporal lobe (70-80%) or medial frontal lobe
Complex partial seizure
Carbamazepine (Tegretol, Carbatrol) treats ?
Tonic Clonic
Partial
Clonazepam (Klonopin)
Myoclonic
Phenobarbital (Luminal)
Tonic-Clonic
Partial
Phenytoin (Dilantin)
Tonic Clonic
Partial
Valproic acid (Depakote)
Tonic Clonic
Myoclonic
Absence
Photic induced
**everything except partial
Topiramate (Topamax)
Treats ALL seizures
o Treats intractable seizures
o Only if surgery is not successful or not seizure control
Vagus nerve stimulators
Pacemaker of the brain
Vagus nerve stimulators
2 types of surgical interventions for epilepsy
Callostomy and hemispherectomy
Partial = takes out 2/3 of connections in corpus callosum
Complete = cutting remaining 1/3
Not a cure but does reduce frequency and severity
Callostomy
half of the brain is removed or disconnected
- always results in some form of hemiplegia
Hemispherectomy
What are the implications for the PT when dealing with patients who have seizures?
1] keep client safe if they have seizure during therapy
2] know psychological implications, triggers
3] exam their home and work etc environment and EDUCATE
Parts of the chain of transmission
Pathogen Reservoir Portal of exit Mode of transmission Portal of entry Susceptible host
how the pathogen gets inside your body
Portal of entry
Ex] respiratory tract, GI tract, urinary tract, mucous membrane, skin
What part of MoT?
Portal of entry
Will they be affected more or less?
Susceptible host
any microorganism that has the capacity to cause disease
Pathogen
environment where the pathogen lives
Reservoir
how the pathogen gets transferred
Mode of transmission
how the pathogen leaves the reservoir
Portal of exit
Ex] people, equipment, water
CHain?
Reservoir
excretions, secretions, droplets, open cuts
Chain?
Portal of exit
Contact, droplets, airborne, vectorborne, vehicle are examples of what part in chain?
Mode of transmission
respiratory tract, GI tract, urinary tract, mucous membrane, skin
What part of chain?
Portal of entry
cancer patients, elderly patients, surgical patients, burns, diabetes mellitus are what part of the chain?
Host susceptibility
3 lines of defense
1st= external 2nd= inflammatory 3rd= specific response
Normal fever level
98.6
What’s the 102 degree rule?
Theres one group that dont cause fever past 102 and the other group does cause fever past 102.
More than how many degrees is dangerous?
104
Gut flora is destroyed
C.diff
What’s more effective to treat C.diff?
Soap and water
Whats the only anaerobe that poses a nosocomial risk?
C. Diff
o Risk factors:
Spread by direct contact
Mostly colonized in the nose
Staph
Prognosis for staph?
Good with treatment
Most common bacterial pathogen
Ex] Pharyngitis, scarlet fever, impetigo, gangrene, cellulitis, sepsis, toxic shock
Group A strep
Usually seen in NICU, newborns, nursery
• Leading cause of neonatal infections
• Part of Norma vaginal flora- 1% of babies get it
Group B strep
Through direct contact or droplet inhalation
Risk factors
• Age, flu, respiratory infection, chronic illness, immunosuppressive, alcoholism
Pneumonia
Risk for HCWs
Incubated for 45-180 days (avg 60-90)
Needle stick- 22-31% chance of getting it
Trasnsmission: direct or indirect contact
Hep B
What virus does NOT have a vaccine?
Hep C
Transmitted by needle stick
Incubated 6-7 weeks
Wash hands!
Hep C
Transmitted through needle stick or infrequently through mucus
HIV
Types of Herpes Virus
HSV Type 1 and 2= herpes simplex
HSV Type 3= varicella zoster
HSV Type 4= Epstein Barr
HSV Type 5= cytomegalovirus (CMV)
Chickenpox or shingles
HSV type 3
95% ppl 35-40 years old
Transmission: contact with oral secretions, blood or organ transplants
Excellent prognosis
HSV type 4
Increased with age
1% newborns
4 out of 5 adults have CMV
Transmitted: human contact with infected secretions like urine, blood breast milk, placenta
HSV Type 5
o Heartburn
o Nausea
o emesis (vomit)
o diarrhea- abnormal stool or frequency
o fetal incontinence- cant control bowel movements
o constipation
o anorexia
o dysphagia (difficulty swallowing)
o Achalasia- cant relax smooth muscles of GI tract
o Abdominal pain
And GI bleeding are all signs and symptoms of?
GI DISEASE