Overview
Case Study: Stroke
A 59-year-old African American male is brought to the ED by ambulance. He is awake and
mumbling incoherently. His wife reports that he awoke with a headache, then collapsed to the floor while shaving. His right arm and leg seemed very weak and his clothes were wet with urine. He has a history of smoking, alcohol use and high cholesterol.
Instruction:
1.Give an overview of the diagnosis including risk factors and how they cause or contribute to adaptation or pathogenesis.
2.Give an in-depth discussion of the pathophysiology of your diagnosis as it occurs over time; include signs, symptoms, diagnostic studies and the underlying pathophysiologic process causing these signs and symptoms. Support this pathophysiology with high level evidence.
3.Summarize treatments and outcomes in terms of pathophysiologic alterations.
4.Include a discussion of the symptoms that your patient is exhibiting and discuss treatments specifically aimed for your patient.
5. Support your case discussion with current (in the past 5 years) high level evidence. Patient information portals, disease association websites and other resources such as Up-to-date, Epocrates, Medscape, Mayo Clinic are not considered high levels of evidence and should be avoided for your presentations. While use of the course textbooks is permitted, a minimum of 3 high level citations outside of the course text is required.
Length: 350-500 words
Citation: 3 high level scholarly reference in APA from within the last 5 years