Choose three medical procedures and research possible diagnoses
include why the diagnoses would justify medical necessity for the
procedures that you chose. Explain the importance of code linkage
and what the consequences for not showing.
describe the pathophysiology of diagnoses below. identify
clinical manifestation, signs and symptoms, diagnostic labs and
tests and treatment option for each diagnosis. cite the source
1. systolic heart failur
2. cognitive communication deficit
3. gastro-esophageal refulux
4. bening prostatic hyperplasia
5. insomnia
Obesity Explain the pathophysiology of the disease. Discuss
common clinical manifestations. List differential diagnoses.
Determine which lab tests would confirm the diagnosis and expected
results. Analyze a current protocol for treatment and discuss how
the treatment works from the pathophysiological perspective.
Alzheimer’s disease Explain the pathophysiology of the disease
Discuss common clinical manifestations List differential diagnoses
Determine which lab tests would confirm the diagnosis and expected
results Analyze a current protocol for treatment and discuss how
the treatment works from the pathophysiological perspective
Chronic renal failure
Explain the pathophysiology of the disease. Discuss common
clinical manifestations. List differential diagnoses. Determine
which lab tests would confirm the diagnosis and expected results.
Analyze a current protocol for treatment and discuss how the
treatment works from the pathophysiological perspective.
Hypertension and High Cholesterol are common diagnoses
for both men and women. These conditions need to be treated with
both non-pharmacological and pharmacological interventions to
prevent further cardiac complications.
You are otherwise a very healthy individual who has
just received a call from your health care
provider stating that your blood pressure and LDL cholesterol
levels were high. You immediately begin researching medications and
other ways to reduce both of these as soon as possible.
Personalize an action plan to...
1. In your opinion, can culture bound syndromes tie into medical
diagnoses? Explain how they can or cannot.
2. Knowing this information, how can you be sensitive to a
patients belief in a culture bound syndrome as opposed to a medical
diagnosis?
3. Do you have any experience with the culture bound syndromes
discussed here or other culture bound syndromes? What was/are those
experiences?