Zusammenfassung der Ressource
Pathophysiology
- Pathology
- Study of disease
- study of structural and functional changes in cells, tissues, and organs of the body that cause or are caused by disease
- Physiology
- the function of living things
- functions of the human body
- Physiology of altered health
- Health vs. Disease
- Health
- "a state of complete, physical, mental, and social well-being and not merely the absence of disease and infirmity"
- Disease
- an acute or chronic illness that one acquires or is born with that causes physiological dysfunction in one or more body systems
- Terms
- Etiology
- How do you get the disease? How is it spread/how does it get there?
- Congenital
- Acquired
- Pathogenesis
- How does the disease spread
- Clinical Manifestations
- What are the signs and symptoms of the disease?
- signs
- Symptoms
- Syndrome
- a bunch of signs and symptoms together that point to one thing
- chronic fatigue syndrome
- Complications
- our job to try and prevent them
- trying to prevent a cold from becoming pneumonia
- there is always a risk and a benefit to everything we do; is the benefit greater than the risk?
- sequelae
- long term after effects of a disease
- people have a stroke after paralysis and or can't speak
- Diagnosis
- lab values and range that are considered normal; figure out how to make a running list of lab values i need to know
- Normal value
- Clinical course
- Acute
- subacute
- Chronic
- acute vs. chronic
- diseases can be both or one or the other
- clinical disease v. carrier
- you can carry a lot of genetic diseases but not have them