Question

PART 2

Each week, you will be asked to respond to the prompt or prompts in the discussion forum. Your initial post should be 75-150 words in length, and is due on Sunday. By Tuesday, you should respond to two additional posts from your peers.

Discussion B:

I have found that learning is increased when students practice going in both directions; formal to informal, and informal to formal. The primary focus is the Pathophysiology in this discussion. Anatomy and Physiology shows us how the body is supposed to work. Pathophysiology is the study of something that has gone wrong.

See the examples of the informal and formal paragraphs:

(Exemplar: Casual: I fell off my motorcycle and broke my arm. It hurt something terrible and the bones was sticking right through my arm. The medic said it was cutting of my blood flow and my fingers were numb and purply. I was really worried the doctors would have to cut them right off. But when I got to the hospital, I saw a special bone doctor and he fixed me right up.

Exemplar: Formal: The patient sustained an open compound fracture of the radius. He was complaining of severe 10/10 pain. Circulation distal to the injury was decreased. Fingers were pale with paresthesia. The patient asked if his fingers would have to be amputated. The patient was referred to an orthopedic specialist.)

Produce an informal paragraph about a pathology, then convert the paragraph into a formal one using the proper MTs.

Include the following aspects in the discussion:

• Use MTs from the chapter readings for this week
• The response should be long enough to ensure the chosen MTs are used and thoroughly supported
• The MT words should pertain to pathophysiology
• Underline the MT and supporting MTs and place definitions for each at the end of the initial discussion post
• Discuss peers’ posts, were the MTs used correctly?

Answer 1

Casual: I got hit by a speeding car out of the blew which threw me so feet from my current position. The first thing I noticed was my whole left leg was lying across the rest of my body. I couldn't feel anything from the waist down, My leg felt like jello and I definitely thought that my leg would be cut off. I lifted my leg and put it in a proper position. In a while, the paramedics loaded me into an ambulance and drove to the hospital. They drilled into my knee bone and put 4 screws into my knee while I was awake. They told me they had to pull my leg to make the bones fall in the right position. Basically, they were altering my femur they said since it was broken. Later I was taken to the OT for surgery.

Formal: The patient sustained a broken femur due to a cycling accident. The orthopedic did an external fixation of the comminuted mid bone fracture of the femur. Later the surgeon inserts a rod or large nail into the center of the bone. This rod helps support the bone until it heals.

MT: A twisting force to the thigh causes this type of fracture. Comminuted fracture. In this type of fracture, the bone has broken into three or more pieces. In most cases, the number of bone fragments corresponds with the amount of force needed to break the bone.