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CNA -disorders
CNA-disorders and their symptoms
| Question | Answer |
|---|---|
| Alzheimer's Disease | affects memory, judgement, ability to think occures in three phases |
| Alzheimer's disease phase 1 | forgetfulness, seeks the familure, moodiness |
| Alzheimer's disease phase 2 | restlessness particularly in evening, inability to recognize dangerous situations, need assistance with ADL's, speaks with 1-2 word responses |
| Alzheimer's disease phase 3 | unable to recognize family, staff, or self dependent for all ADL's, incontinent, unable to walk |
| Parkinson's Disease | slow progressive disease of the brain-affects physical function, but generally not intelligence |
| Symptoms of Parkinson's disease | weakness, fatigue, absence of felling in a part of the body, incontinence, vision problems and depression |
| Closed Head Injuries | injuries to the soft tissue of the brain as a result of blows to the head-results in concussion, cerebral contusion and closed skull fractures |
| Closed head injuries can cuase | paralysis, speech diffuculties, personality change, difficulty breathing and incontinence |
| Developmental Disability DD | a disability, which is attributed to mental retardation, cerebral palsy, or autism, dyslexia |
| Cerebrovascular Accident (CVS, stroke) | decreased blood flow to the brain resulting in brain injury |
| CVS syptoms | headach, dizziness, weakness, paralysis of an extremity or side of body, ipaired speech, incontinence |
| hypertension | high blood pressure due to narrowing of blood vessels--cause heart to work harder to pump blood |
| Hypertension sysmptoms | dizziness, headache, blurred vission |
| Coronary Artery Disease (CAD) | narrowing of the coranory ateries causing reduces blood suppply to the heart. May result in heart attack |
| CAD symptoms | indigestion, nausea, crushing chest pain, perspiration, cool skin, paleness, and shortness of breath |
| Congestive Heart Failure | heart muscle is weakened and cannot pump enough blood--may result in hypertension, heart attack, or narrowed blood vessles |
| Congestive heart failure symptoms | difficulty breathing, fluid in the lungs, edema in feet and ankles, confusion, irregular pulse and cyanosis |
| Chronic Obstructive Pulmonary Diease (COPD) | flow of air in and out of the lungs is restricted as a result of diseases such as, emphysema, chronic bronchitis, and asthma |
| COPD symptoms | shortness of breath, coughing up mucus, fatigue and with emphysema-development of a barral shaped chest |
| Diabetes Melitus | pancreus does not produce enough insuline |
| Diabetes Melitus symptoms | excessive thirst, frequent urination, excessive hunger, weight loss, blurred vision, slow healing of wounds |
| Hyperglycemia--diabetic coma | increased-thirst and urination, abdominal pain, cramps, nausea, vomiting, dim vision, confusion, slurred speech, rapid pulse, drowsiness, flushed hot dry skin, deep labored breathing, fruity breath oder |
| Hypoglycemia--insuline shock | hunger, restlessness, irritability, nervousness, weakness, dizzines,headache, nausea, blurred or double vision, pale, cold or clammy skin, sweaty, shallow breathing, confusion, strange and unusual behavior |
| Seven signs of cancer | change in wart or mole lump or thickining in body difficulty swallowing change in bladder or bowel habits persistent cough or hoarsness sore that does not heal unusual bleeding or discharge |
| Kidney failure | disorder resulting from infection, diesease, or injury that restricts the kidney's ability to filter blood and remove waste from the body |
| Kidney failure symptoms | intense itching, ammonia like oder to the skin, weakness, fatigue, high bp, weight loss |
| Osteoporosis | bones lose calcum causing them to become spongy and brittle |
| Osteoporosis symptoms | back pain, gradual loss of height, stooped posture, |
| Fracture | break in the bone from fall or accident or as a result of osteoporosis |
| fracture symptoms | swelling, pain, visible deformity, bruising, inability to move normally |
| Arthritis | an inflammitory condition of the joints cuased by infection, injury or degeneritive joint disease 2 types |
| Osteoarthritis | caused by wear and tear on the smooth covering of the joint |
| osteoarthritis symptoms | pain, stiffness, swelling |
| Rheumatoid arthritis | chroninc inflammatory disease of connective tissue in the joints and other parts of the body |
| Rheumatiod arthritis symptoms | redness, swelling, severe pain in the joints, fever, fatigue, and weight loss |
| Arthroplasty (joint replacement) | a surgical procedure that replaces a diseased joint with an artificial mechanism to re-establish motion |
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