Patients starting morphine may experience nausea and vomiting ( generally relieved by a short course of antiemetics such as phenergan ).

Patients with catatonia may experience an extreme loss of motor skills or even constant hyperactive motor activity.

Patients may also show stereotyped, repetitive movements.

Patients may suffer from disorders of consciousness, or may need to be anesthetized for a surgical procedure.

Patients who are restless may also try to pull on tubes or dressings so soft cloth wrist restraints may be put on.

Patients may choose between several methods of fertility preservation prior to chemotherapy, including cryopreservation of semen, ovarian tissue, oocytes, or embryos.

Patients may also present with hypothermia.

Patients with classic symptoms of expressive aphasia in general have more acute brain lesions, whereas patients with larger, widespread lesions exhibit a variety of symptoms that may be classified as global aphasia or left unclassified.

Patients with type 2 diabetes are often insulin resistant and, because of such resistance, may suffer from a " relative " insulin deficiency.

Patients already on a ward may be detained under section 5 ( 2 ) for up to 72 hours for the purposes of allowing an assessment to take place for section 2 or 3.

Patients may become unable to perform daily living activities and most require assistive devices within 5 to 10 years of symptom onset.

Patients who metabolize methadone rapidly, on the other hand, may require twice daily dosing to obtain sufficient symptom alleviation while avoiding excessive peaks and troughs in their blood concentrations and associated effects.

Patients may feel these symptoms in areas far from the actual site of damage, a phenomenon called referred pain.

Patients experiencing pain may exhibit withdrawn social behavior and possibly experience a decreased appetite and decreased nutritional intake.

Patients may develop muscle weakness, or myopathy, either from the disease, or its treatments.

Patients may experience severe chronic pain, abnormal sensations and loss of sensation particularly in the hands.

Patients may employ a nighttime biofeedback instrument such as a biofeedback headband or biofeedback device to help them modify para-functional jaw habits which take place in sleep.

Patients may seek the assistance of a sex therapist to learn specific techniques and ways to maintain a positive image of sexual intimacy and one's body.

Patients with supraventricular tachycardia, atrial fibrillation, and other illnesses may be trained to perform vagal maneuvers ( or find one or more on their own ).

Patients with concussion may have a history of seconds to minutes unconsciousness, then normal arousal.

Patients with these conditions may suffer a range of symptoms including dyspnea ( breathlessness ), hypoxemia ( below-normal oxygen content in the arterial blood ) and eventually a weakening of the respiratory muscles due to exhaustion, which can lead to respiratory failure and require intubation and mechanical ventilation.

Patients are often admitted on a voluntary basis, but involuntary commitment is practiced when an individual may pose a significant danger to themselves or others.

Patients who survive an episode of botulism poisoning may have fatigue and shortness of breath for years and long-term therapy may be needed to aid their recovery.

Patients who recover go on to say that they knew what they wanted to say but could not express themselves.

Patients are taught to say phrases using the natural melodic component of speaking and continuous voicing is emphasized.

Patients with Expressive aphasia, also known as Broca's aphasia, are individuals who know " what they want to say, they just cannot get it out.

Patients would not trust nurses who fail in complying with what they say or promise.

Patients undergoing coronary artery bypass surgery will have to avoid certain things for eight to 12 weeks to reduce the risk of opening the incision.

Patients often will describe the touch of a cotton ball as extremely painful, like the scraping of a knife.

Patients may be released from the hospital to the care of a trusted person with orders to return if they display worsening symptoms or those that might indicate an emergent condition, like unconsciousness or altered mental status ; convulsions ; severe, persistent headache ; extremity weakness ; vomiting ; or new bleeding or deafness in either or both ears.

Patients who do not respond to glucocorticoids and azathioprine may be given other immunosuppressives like cyclosporin, tacrolimus, methotrexate etc.

Patients on certain drugs like methotrexate or chloroquine should use caution with light therapy as there is a chance that these drugs could cause porphyria.

Patients who live in such areas can be seen by a doctor or specialist, who can provide an accurate and complete examination, while the patient may not have to travel or wait the normal distances or times like those from conventional hospital or GP visits.

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Patients feel like they have to move their legs to relieve the sensations, and walking generally makes the symptoms disappear.

Patients with intact repetition can repeat both simple and complex phrases spoken by others, e. g. when asked if the patient would like to go for a walk, he or she would respond " go for walk.

Patients with brain damage may experience the loss of ability to produce musical sounds while sparing speech, much like aphasics lose speech selectively but can sometimes still sing.

Patients who are non-smokers, and light former smokers, with adenocarcinoma or subtypes like BAC are more likely to have EGFR mutations, but mutations can occur in all types of patients.

Patients experience their body as oriented “ upright ” when the body is actually tilted to the side of the brain lesion.

Patients are typically advised to sit “ within several yards ” of the device and glance occasionally ( rather than stare ) at it .< sup > p20 </ sup > Commercial light boxes are not regulated by U. S. law and, as such, OTs should recommend medical consultation and advise caution when selecting and using them.

Patients display a remarkable hallucinatory behavior, and peculiar motor disturbances, which Morvan reported under the term “ fibrillary chorea ” but which are best described nowadays as neuromyotonic discharges.

The American Psychiatric Association ’ s ( APA ) 2010 Practice Guidelines for the Treatment of Patients with Major Depressive Disorder states that, “ for patients whose symptoms have not responded adequately to medication … transcranial magnetic stimulation could also be considered …”.

concluded, “ Patients receiving a silver-coated endotracheal tube had a statistically significant reduction in the incidence of VAP and delayed time to VAP occurrence compared with those receiving a similar, uncoated tube .” In addition, the U. S. Food and Drug Administration ( FDA ) has recently approved an endotracheal tube with a fine coat of silver for use in mechanical ventilation, after studies found it reduced the risk of ventilator-associated pneumonia.

Patients may exhibit a “ second wind ” phenomenon.

Patients can also choose to be placed in the room, prompting Kaysen to remark, “ freedom was the price of privacy .” Here, a patient can be blessedly alone for a period, free from scrutiny and company but confined to even tighter quarters.

Patients with blindsight have damage to the second, “ mammalian ” visual system ( the visual cortex of the brain and some of the nerve fibers that bring information to it from the eyes ).

Patients with minor damage to the fourth nerve will complain of “ blurry ” vision.

Patients who have experienced frontal lobe trauma may know the appropriate response to a situation but display inappropriate to those same situations in “ real life .” Similarly, emotions that are felt may not be expressed in the face or voice.

Patients are also inclined to associate themselves with people who tend not to be engaged in physical activities, according to the September 2008 issue of “ Journal of Physical Activity and Health .”

assists in organizing and has several victim speakers participate in the “ Families and Patients Forum on Foodborne Disease ” sponsored by the U. S. House of Representatives ’ Food Safety Caucus.

Patients with atopy usually develop what is referred to as the “ allergic triad ” of symptoms, i. e., eczema ( atopic dermatitis ), hay fever ( allergic rhinitis ), and allergy-induced asthma ( allergic asthma ).

* LTC Leonard C. Sperling, MC ; COL Purnima Sau, MC, “ The Follicular Degeneration Syndrome in Black Patients: ‘ Hot Comb Alopecia ’ Revisited and Revised ” Archives of Dermatology.

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