Special Operations Forces Medical Handbook
4-26 Subjective: Symptoms Early: Excessive daytime sleepiness, disrupted sleep, recent weight gain, repetitive awakenings with t ...
4-27 Evacuation/Consultation criteria: Evacuation is not typically necessary. Consult primary care physician, internist or pulmo ...
4-28 hyperthyroidism, depression or psychotic states such as bipolar disorder or schizophrenia. Plan: Treatment Primary: Acute: ...
4-29 women are often overweight, and have increased risk of type 2 diabetes in middle age or later. Subjective: Symptoms Classic ...
4-30 Patient Education General: DM is almost always a permanent condition, but careful self-management offers long-term benefit ...
4-31 Assessment: Always consider hypoglycemia as an easily treatable form of mental status impairment. ALWAYS check for it in pa ...
4-32 from leakage of thyroid hormones from a gland damaged in trauma or from viral infection in a self-limited process called th ...
4-33 cardiac output). Percussion: Brisk deep tendon reexes (reects increased neuromuscular irritability). Hypothyroidism Using ...
4-34 peroxidase, and may exacerbate simple goiter and induce hypothyroidism. Pregnancy: Normal pregnancy results in mild symptom ...
4-35 of the affected limb. Alternate: For recurrent seizures: If the seizure lasts more than 10 minutes, immediate medical inte ...
4-36 for viral) Have you been exposed to others who have been ill or had meningitis? (Ear infections, sinus disease, pneumonia, ...
4-37 Patient Education Activity: Bedrest Diet: As tolerated. Prevention and Hygiene: Meningitis may be contagious and good perso ...
4-38 eyeglasses when outdoors and taping or patching the eye during sleep. Instill artificial tears several times throughout th ...
4-39 subcutaneous fat. Examples: epidermal inclusion and pilar cysts. xi. Wheal/Hive: A distinctive white to pink or pale, red, ...
4-40 Plan: Find treatments that allow the service member to complete their mission, treat the process, and prevent recurrence. E ...
4-41 Skin: Meningococcemia MAJ Daniel Schissel, MC, USA Introduction: Neisseria meningitides is a gram-negative coccus found in ...
4-42 abrasion, surgical site) an underlying dermatosis (pitted keratolysis, tinea, or stasis dermatitis/ulcer), or through the m ...
4-43 external ear canal, conjunctiva, or nasal mucosa. Assessment: Diagnosis based on clinical criteria and veried by culture f ...
4-44 Patient Education Wound Care: Keep lesions covered and moist with antibiotic ointment or petrolatum to aid in rapid healing ...
4-45 Medications: Some medications can be toxic, so periodic blood tests are necessary during treatment. Prevention and Hygiene: ...
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