Homework
Identify and select appropriate interventions including diagnostic tests and nursing interventions.
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.
Task:
• 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.
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 in the week.
• Differentiate the pathophysiology of extradural hematoma and subdural hematoma.
• 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. https://trustedessayhelpers.com/essayquestions/ His head hit the windshield and he suffered severe head trauma.
• Describe the most likely specific type of head injury he suffered.
• Outline the treatment plan for this patient.
Format your homework according to the give formatting requirements:
• The answer must be using Times New Roman font (size 12), double spaced, typed, with one-inch margins on all sides.
• The response also includes a cover page containing the student's name, the title of the homework, the course title, and the date. The cover page is not included in the required page length.
• Also include a reference page. The references and Citations should follow APA format. The reference page is not included in the required page length.