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| What is a major cause of delirium that one should rule out? |
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| What is the most common cause of acute incontinence? |
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| What are the 4 basic types of established incontinence? |
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1) stress
2) urge
3) overflow
4) functional incontinence |
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| How should women treat stress incontience? |
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| What is a good medication for combined stress and urge incontinence? |
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| What is common with fecal impaction? |
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| What is the most serious fracture from falls in elderly? |
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| What intervention yields a 41% reduction of falls at home? |
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| therapist-conducted exercises |
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| What is common in immobilized patients with increased age? |
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| What are the major locations where pressure sores develop? |
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| sacrum/coccyx, hips, ischia, heels |
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| What levels should albumin be for proper pressure ulcer prevention? |
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| What is the most common cause of sensiorneural hearing loss in the elderly? |
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| What are the most common causes of conductive hearing loss? |
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| cerumen impaction and otosclerosis |
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| What do you use to manage and prevent delirum in the elderlY? |
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| Why do you not want to use povidone-iodine for wound care in pressure sores? |
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| it is toxic to fibroblasts |
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| what is the norm for the intraocular pressure? |
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| What risk factors are associated with age-related macular degeneration? |
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ciragrette smoking
Vitamins A,C, E |
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