Homework
Objectives:
• Identify and select appropriate interventions including diagnostic tests and nursing interventions.
• Analyze physiological and psychological responses to illness and treatment modalities
Purpose: Examine case studies related to neurologic disease and answer the assigned questions. This homework should help refine your clinical/critical thinking skills.
Description:
• Describe the pathophysiology of extradural and subdural hematomas.
• Identify the surgical emergency and provided rationale for the choice.
• Describe the most likely type of head injury and outline an approriate treatment plan.
• Your answer must follow APA 6th edition format.
• Submit the answer to this homework area.
Patient 1: Two individuals come to the emergency department with head injuries. One, 25 years old, has just been in a motor vehicle accident (MVA) and has a temporal lobe injury. The other, 65 years old, has increasing confusion after a fall that happened earlier.
o Differentiate the pathophysiology of extradural hematoma and subdural hematoma.
o Identify the patient in the above scenario requiring immediate emergency surgical intervention and provide rationale for your choice.
Patient 2: An 38 year old was driving his 1970 Chevy Corvette to a Milwaukee Brewers baseball game when a deer jumped out in front of him on the highway. He swerved his car and hit a telephone pole instead. His head hit the windshield and he suffered severe head trauma.
o Describe the most likely specific type of head injury he suffered.
o Outline the treatment plan for this patient.
Format your homework according to the following formatting requirements:
o The answer should be typed, using Times New Roman font (size 12), double spaced, with one-inch margins on all sides.
o The response also includes a cover page containing the title of the homework, the student's name, the course title, and the date. The cover page is not included in the required page length.
o Also include a reference page. The Citations and references must follow APA format. The reference page is not included in the required page length