Lobo - Samenvattingen, Aantekeningen en Examens

Pioneered by / Year - In 1935, pioneered by a Portuguese physician, Egas Puniz, who eventually won the Nobel Prize in Medicine. What is it? - Lobotomy is a form of surgery that cuts open the skull, and then uses a device that resembles an ice pick to cut through neural fibers in the brain. Implications in the US? - Championed in the US, particularly within the VA system, by a neurologist named Dr. Walter Freeman. Frequently lobotomized patients? - Appx 2000 American vets wer...

Gastr - Correct Answer-stomach Plast - Correct Answer-surgical repair Megal - Correct Answer-enlarged Itis - Correct Answer-inflammation Path - Correct Answer-disease Enter - Correct Answer-intestines Ectomy - Correct Answer-surgical removal Cerebr - Correct Answer-brain (parts of the brain) Cardi - Correct Answer-heart (Conditions or therapeutic procedures) Dermat - Correct Answer-skin (conditions to the skin) Osis - Correct Answer-any condition Spasm - Correct Answer-involuntary con...

Gottlieb Burkhardt (1882) - -began experimenting with various techniques like hypnotism to treat mentally ill -experimented with operations on various lobes of patients brains to treat schizophrenia -6 patients -1 died; 1 improved; 2 had no change; 2 became 'quieter'...not a big success boring holes - 1890's efforts in England to relieve sx of neurosyphilis by ________ ______ in the cranium (trepanation) and incising the meninges to drain away pus of CSF Mikulicz - This guy...

ice pick method - 10-minute transorbital lobotomy Walter Freeman - doctor that performed lobotomies 1936-1980s - years lobotomies were performed in the US to treat schizophrenia and depression - why were lobotomies performed child-like state and dull state - 2 extreme states after lobotomy plasticity - when the brain can repair itself (can only occur at younger age) prefrontal lobotomy - frontal lobes in brain are surgically cut from other brain areas wh...

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Gastr - Correct Answer-stomach Plast - Correct Answer-surgical repair Megal - Correct Answer-enlarged Itis - Correct Answer-inflammation Path - Correct Answer-disease Enter - Correct Answer-intestines Ectomy - Correct Answer-surgical removal Cerebr - Correct Answer-brain (parts of the brain) Cardi - Correct Answer-heart (Conditions or therapeutic procedures) Dermat - Correct Answer-skin (conditions to the skin) Osis - Correct Answer-any condition Spasm - Correct Answer-involuntary con...

Signs of pregnancy presumptive (subjective signs) Amenorrhea, nausea, vomiting, increased urinary frequency, excessive fatigue, breast tenderness, quickening at 18–20 weeks probable (objective signs) Goodell sign (softening of cervix) Chadwick sign (cervix is blue/purple) Hegar’s sign (softening of lower uterine segment) Uterine enlargement Braxton Hicks contractions (may be palpated by 28 weeks) Uterine soufflé (soft blowing sound due to blood pulsating through the placenta) Integumen...

The Privacy Rule generally requires covered entities to take reasonable steps to limit the use or disclosure of, and requests for, protected health information to the minimum necessary to accomplish the intended purpose. The minimum necessary standard does not apply to the following: - ANSWER-- Disclosures to or requests by a health care provider for treatment purposes. - Disclosures to the individual who is the subject of the information. - Uses or disclosures made pursuant to an individual'...

Signs of pregnancy presumptive (subjective signs) Amenorrhea, nausea, vomiting, increased urinary frequency, excessive fatigue, breast tenderness, quickening at 18–20 weeks probable (objective signs) Goodell sign (softening of cervix) Chadwick sign (cervix is blue/purple) Hegar’s sign (softening of lower uterine segment) Uterine enlargement Braxton Hicks contractions (may be palpated by 28 weeks) Uterine soufflé (soft blowing sound due to blood pulsating through the placenta) Integ...

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