WEEK 12 NEW Flashcards
- Behavior
The way a person acts or conducts themselves, especially in response to a situation.
- Affect
An observable expression of emotion or feelings.
- Psychosis
A mental disorder where a person loses touch with reality, experiencing hallucinations or delusions.
- Functional disorder
A disorder with no known physical cause but affects the body’s function, often psychological in nature.
- Traumatic brain injury
Damage to the brain caused by an external physical force, such as a blow or jolt to the head.
- Schizophrenia
A chronic brain disorder causing hallucinations, delusions, and disordered thinking.
- Alzheimer’s disease
A progressive disease that destroys memory and other important mental functions.
- Organic brain syndrome
A temporary or permanent dysfunction of the brain caused by a physical or physiological condition.
- General guidelines for managing a patient with a behavioral emergency
Maintain safety
Approach calmly and respectfully
Assess for medical causes
Provide reassurance
Use restraints only if absolutely necessary
- In which position should you restrain a physically uncooperative patient?
Restrain the patient in a position that ensures airway safety, typically on their side or sitting up if possible, avoiding prone restraint.
- People at risk for suicide
Those with a history of mental illness, substance abuse, previous suicide attempts, or significant life stressors.
- Excited delirium
A condition characterized by agitation, aggression, acute distress, and sudden death, often related to drug use.
- Factors that contribute to suicide
Mental illness, substance abuse, financial problems, recent loss, and social isolation.
- Conditions that exacerbate excited delirium
Use of stimulant drugs, extreme physical exertion, and environmental factors like heat.
- Anatomy of the eye and surrounding structures
Includes the sclera, cornea, iris, pupil, lens, retina, and surrounding eyelids and muscles.
- Facial bones
Nasal, maxilla, zygomatic, mandible, and others that form the structure of the face.
- Mastoid process
The bony prominence behind the ear; part of the temporal bone of the skull.
- Tragus
The small pointed eminence of the external ear, located in front of the ear canal.
- Incus
One of the three small bones in the middle ear that help transmit sound vibrations.
- Pinna
The external part of the ear that collects sound waves.
- Stapes
The smallest bone in the body, located in the middle ear, involved in hearing.
- Hyphemia
Blood pooling in the anterior chamber of the eye.
- Epidural hematoma
Bleeding between the skull and the dura mater, often caused by a head injury.
- Subdural hematoma
Bleeding between the dura mater and the brain, typically caused by tearing of veins.
