Biomedical subjects

Linda Yamamoto

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Outcome measures in stroke.

Stroke is the third leading cause of death after heart disease and cancer. The care of stroke patient involves objective measurements of outcome, which are critical to assessment and evaluations of treatment regimens. Nontraumatic brain injury is influenced by endless variables and a variation in severity. Brain injury can result in significant changes in cognitive, emotional, and functional status, leading to many challenges to the clinical management of the patient. The measurement of outcome is fundamental for effective evaluation in clinical management of stroke patients. Neurological outcome research has predominantly focused on the effects of treatment, management, and on predictive indicators. A reliable measure of deficits after a stroke is important, not only to serve as a baseline for the evaluation of therapeutic measures, but also for rehabilitation and health care planning. The goal of this article is to provide information on 6 different measurement scales used to assess and measure outcomes of strokes.

Activities of Daily Living↗

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Thoracic trauma: the deadly dozen.

Deadly Dozen ... Lethal Six ... Hidden Six ... Major thoracic injuries are known as the Deadly Dozen. The Lethal Six (airway obstruction, tension pneumothorax, cardiac tamponade, open pneumothorax, massive hemothorax, and flail chest) are immediate, life-threatening injuries that require evaluation and treatment during primary survey. The Hidden Six (thoracic aortic disruption, tracheobronchial disruption, myocardial contusion, traumatic diaphragmatic tear, esophageal disruption, and pulmonary contusion) are potentially life-threatening injuries that should be detected during secondary survey. Each of these may present as immediately life-threatening or potentially life-threatening events. This article provides an overview of these 12 injuries and appropriate management for each. Case studies are included.

Combined Modality Therapy↗

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Case management "within the walls": a glimpse into the future.

Case management integrates patient and provider satisfaction, takes into consideration cost factors, and provides a means of managing the individual's health concerns. It offers nurses an opportunity to demonstrate their roles in multidisciplinary healthcare teams. Using the case management approach, nurse case managers can optimize client self-care, decrease fragmentation of care, provide quality care across a continuum, enhance patients' quality of life, decrease length of hospitalization, increase patient and staff satisfaction, and promote the cost-effective use of scarce resources. This article will review case management, acute care case management, the essential characteristics and job responsibilities of the nurse case manager, and the stages of nursing case management. This article presents the nurse case manager's involvement with a patient in the critical care unit who sustained an aneurysmal subarachnoid hemorrhage. A glimpse into the future will be viewed.

Continuity of Patient Care↗