Diseases
Cerebral Palsy:
Causes:
- Considered a neurological disorder caused by non-progressive brain injury or malfunction that occurs while the child's brain is under development
- Primarily affects body movement and muscle coordination
- Commonly referred to as “CP”
- Loss or impairment of motor function
- Caused by brain damage
- Occurs while child's brain is being developed or during birth, before birth, immediately after birth
- Affects body movement, muscle control, muscle coordination, muscle tone, reflex, posture and balance
- Muscles can contract too much, too little, or all at the same time, the person doesn't have any control
- Affect arms,legs and face/ it can affect one limb, several, or all
- Tieing shoes, walking, sitting. And difficulty grasping objects
- Seizures, vision or hearing impairment commonly accompany cerebral palsy
- Non life threatening
- In curable
- Non progressive
- Permanet
- No contagious and it's not communicable
- Manageable
- Chronic
- Occurs when excessive pressure builds up inside an enclosed muscle place in the body
- Results from bleeding or swelling after injury
- Impedes the flow of blood to and from the affected tissues
- It can be very serious and an emergency requiring surgery to prevent permanent injury
- Groups of organs are organized into area called compartments.
- Strong webs of connective tissue (fascia) from the walls in compartments
- After an injury, blood or edema accumulate in compartment
- Tough walls of fascia not easily explained, the compartment pressure rises, preventing adequate blood flow to tissues inside compartment
- Edema: swelling caused by fluid retention- excess fluid trapped in the body’s tissue(commonly occurs in hands,arms,ankles, leg and feet)
Causes:
- acute is caused by a broken leg or arm develops rapidly over hours or days
- Crush injuries,burns,overly tight bandaging, prolonged compression of a limb during a period of unconsciousness, surgery to blood vessel in an arm or leg,a blood clot in a blood vessel in adn arm or leg, extremely vigorous exercise, especially eccentric movements (extensions under pressure)
- Chronic compartment syndrome develops over days or weeks
- Caused by regular, vigorous exercise, effects lower leg, buttock, or thigh
- Trauma, especially when it results in shock. Abdominal surgery, particularly liver transplant, burns, sepsis
Treatments
- Reducing the dangerous pressure in the body compartment
- Dressings
- Casts
- Splints
- Constriction the affected body part must be removed
- Keeping the body part below the level of the heart (improve blood flow into compartment)
- Giving oxygen throughout the nose or mouth
- Giving fluids intravenously
- Intravenously: through or within a vein
- Taking pain meds
- Treatments vary to different levels of syndrome