Patient Dw Case Study

COGNITION, REASONING AND JUDGMENT: The patients score of 136 and the Dementia Rating Scale was within normal limits. Ability to obstruct commonalities on simple verbal analogies was unremarkable. Ability to determine same different relationships in geometric design was mildly impaired. Simple Arrhythmia Sequencing was unremarkable while Complex Residence Sequencing revealed one error of sequence but she was able to return to the appropriate sequence without guidance. Ability to determine appropriate solutions to basic problem solving in areas in simple hypothetical emergency situations was unremarkable. Cognition declines only mildly as information length and complexity increase. Performance improves within tasks structure.

The clinical features Mrs Lee now 83 is displaying changes to health and cognition noted in the last three to four months, with two transient ischaemic attacks but no significant medical issues. Although currently taking three medications for high blood pressure. Changes in word finding, getting words mixed up and confusing identifying words. Insisting everything is fine showing a lack of insight into her changes or difficulties. Short term memory Mrs Lees has difficulty retaining recent memories, however long term memory appears reasonable. Although Mrs Lees home is reasonably well maintained, she is emaciated and personal hygiene is poor. There is also evidence of emotionally Liable being frequently teary with no reason. History includes

Anterograde Amnesia is the inability to store new information after the brain damage has occurred. (Luke Mastin 2010). Anterograde Amnesia is very rare, in fact there have a few cases where the amnesia was "pure". The symptoms and hardship of the person depend on the cause for the memory loss. Some symptoms of Anterograde Amnesia are partial memory loss, having a hard time recognizing relatives or family, feeling of confusion, difficulty taking in new information, inability to remember familiar places, and difficulty in learning and remembering new things.(PHC Editorial Team 2013) Characteristics of Anterograde Amnesia are abnormally small hippocampi bilaterally and elevated hippocampal water.(Mayo Clinic 2014) There are many ways to recognize

Recollecting some of life’s experiences can be done very accurately at times where we can depict details even after a long period of time. For patient H.M. this is the exact case. Patient H.M. suffered from severe anterograde amnesia. Anterograde amnesia patients quite often show normal memory for events that have occurred prior to the incident. Therefore, making it extremely difficult to recall or store information after the incident has occurred. H.M. had been knocked down by a bicycle at the age of 7, began to have minor seizures at the age of 10, and had major seizures after the age of 16. Patient H.M. had brain surgery in the early 1950’s around the time he had been 27 years old. The surgery had been done to alleviate severe symptoms

D.D is a 16 yr old male who was in his usually state of health until he developed right-sided abdominal pain approximately 5 days prior to arriving at the hospital. His pain progressively worsened and spread throughout his abdomen. He also had nausea non-bloody, non-bilious vomiting, some diarrhea, as well as fevers, when pain did not improve he presented to ER. He was admitted and diagnosed with sepsis and perforated appendicitis. He had a laparoscopic appendectomy and a central venous catheter was placed. Following surgery he was then transferred to the med-surg floor. His parents are both Spanish speaking and at the bedside.

This is when the patient is unable to create new memories after being diagnosed with Alzheimer’s

In the movie 50 First Dates one of the main characters suffers from the severe condition of anterograde amnesia. The movie is about Henry Roth who is a wildlife veterinarian in Hawaii, meeting Lucy Whitmore a woman who has a short-term memory loss from an auto accident a year earlier. Henry meets Lucy at a local cafe and takes her out on a date. Henry falls in love with Lucy, but there is one problem when she awakens in the morning, she can't remember him or anything that happened that day. Henry must devise a plan to meet Lucy everyday and try to get her to fall in love with him again and again.

D-Met the patient. Please note the patient had dose early during the day and attended the cocaine group. The patient updated this writer on the suggestion she was dealing with yesterday with her new relationship and thank this writer for the advice. She says, " Man, everything is good now...I am good, Charlene." She then discussed her experience at the cocaine group whereas she described it as "okay." She dislike the fact that a patient in the group was making comments about her appearance, but according to the patient she handled the situation well without having an outburst, she only feels that the facilitator could have intervene when the other patient was being disrespectful, but overall the group was "okay" as the patient reported. The

In Still Alice, the main character has memory impairments at the age of fifty. There were a few minor symptoms that were just thought to be because of being overworked and fatigue, but in retrospect point to her disease. For example, forgetting which word to use during a presentation. The recollection was a complete blank. Because of her fairly young age, Alzheimer’s disease was not considered a possibility. Alice believed that it had something to do with her going through menopause, but then she got her menstrual period and decided to go see a neurologist. When Alice did go to the doctor to see what was going on and was diagnosed, it caught

Additionally, to further support these theories, researchers tend to conduct studies on the famous patient case, HM, to propose the consolidation deficit theory, in which those with amnesia cannot turn short-term memories into long-term memories (Dewar et al., 2010). However, researchers Dewar, Della Sala, Beschin, and Cowan (2010), mentioned that HM’s case does not fully explain why a patient with anterograde amnesia has the ability to get better at cognitive tasks despite being unable to recall having performed those tasks at a previous time. On the same hand, Duff, Wszalek, Tranel, and Cohen (2008) mentioned that most individuals with anterograde amnesia experience heightened intelligence, attention, skill, and reasoning levels (procedural memory).

About three months ago, during the summer, I was living a very unhealthy lifetsyle. For about a week I felt like I wasn't remembering things that should have been easily known. During normal daily activites such as work, I would tend to forget things that would have been easy to remember any other day. I've been working as a deilvry driver at a pizzeria now for close to 2 years, and I know the neighborhood extremly well. However, during this time, I was starting to forget items at the pizzeria such as sodas or where streets were, that I knew extremly well. It is for these reasons that I feel like I was experiecing symptoms of disaciative amnesia

Eventually the disease causes people to completely forget conversations, appointments or events that they have made, misplacing their possessions or putting them in places that don’t make any sense, and even forgetting the names of family members and everyday objects.

On Saturday 10/17/2015, at 2210 hours, Security Officer Omar Alonso was approached by discharged E.D. patient, Delia Colon (FIN# 84715193) and told that she had left her prescription eye glasses inside room A-5 about 15 minutes prior when she was discharged. The Officer went and checked the room and the Environmental Services employee Mayra Reyes who had done a quick turn-around (cleaning) of the room was spoken to but no one reported seeing the glasses. The Officer then, spoke to the E.D. staff working in the area but no one had any information as to the whereabouts of the eyeglasses. The Officer was informed by the patient that she had left them before going to X-ray and that was the last time she remembers seeing them. Ms. Colon filled out

I need some help for one WSFH patient. Pt came to office with a bill from Labcorp DOS 1/5/16, for a porstate specific AG. serum. One of our Enrollment Specialist Called Labcorp and spoke with Kathy who stated that in order for insurance to pay for procedure the doctor needs to add an additional diagnostic code, because insurance does not want to pay for procedure. Do you think you will be available to pass this information to your billing department so they can do the appropiate corrections Please. Let me know if the billing department will be available to do the corrections b/c the patient is very worry about this bill collection.

Rodger Evans DPT has just returned from the 2016 MDT Conference of the Americas in Miami. This consisted of a broad base look at the latest trends in treating back /neck pain. Some of the top researchers in the world presented. Rodger hopes to incorporate the knowledge learned into practice here in Big pine Key.