pseudoaddiction may be present when a patient?
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Pseudo-addiction is a condition where a patient is experiencing severe pain, as a result of a chronic illness but the signs and symptoms of this are misunderstood. Carers and other healthcare professionals may interpret the patient's request for painkillers as a form of addiction.
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It's called a visual hallucination, and it can seem like your mind is playing tricks on you. Beyond being scary or stressful, it's also usually a sign that something else is going on. So if it's happening to you, talk to your doctor. That's the first step toward getting better.
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Some people have pseudoresistant (seemingly resistant) hypertension, which is caused by other factors, such as conflicting medications or white coat hypertension (high blood pressure only in the doctor's office). Pseudoresistant hypertension is important to diagnose and treat.
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Both fit into the same vague meaning category of "a problem or obstacle," but an impairment is a nonphysical obstacle and an impediment is almost always an actual thing in your path. An exception (this is English, of course there are exceptions!) is for "speech impediment," which means a stutter, stammer, lisp, etc.
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Calcium pyrophosphate deposition (CPPD) disease, commonly called “pseudogout,” is a painful form of arthritis that comes on suddenly. It occurs when calcium pyrophosphate crystals sit in the joint and surrounding tissues and cause symptoms like gout. Gout, however, is caused by a different type of crystal.
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This may include blurred vision or sensitivity to light. Patients also often complain of extreme fatigue immediately following an attack. Incidentally, vestibular migraine can cause attacks which are not unlike those of Ménière's and which are often misdiagnosed as such without expertise!
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In most cases, patients who are awake, oriented and able to speak in full sentences are stable. Patients who present with a rapidly declining mental status are unstable. Patients who are clearly not perfusing adequately and are visibly declining in front of you or over a short period of time are unstable.
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['vision problems.', 'memory loss.', 'pins and needles (paraesthesia)', 'loss of physical co-ordination (ataxia), which can affect your whole body and cause difficulty speaking or walking.']
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Pseudoseizures, also called psychogenic nonepileptic seizures (PNES), are seizures that occur as a result of psychological causes, such as severe mental stress. Treating the underlying psychological cause can often help to reduce the number of seizures or prevent them happening.
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False pregnancy, clinically termed pseudocyesis, is the belief that you are expecting a baby when you are not really carrying a child. People with pseudocyesis have many, if not all, symptoms of pregnancy -- with the exception of an actual fetus.
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People who live with apraxia have difficulty putting words together in the correct order or 'reaching' for the correct word while speaking. Dysarthria occurs when a patient's muscles do not coordinate together to produce speech.
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In sum, hydrocephalus in the setting of postural impairment and/or oculomotor abnormalities most probably represents PSP or DLB. Hallucinations may be the only early manifestation of the hydrocephalic presentation of DLB.
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A reasonable interpretation of pre-existing conditions is any injury, illness, disease, sickness, medical condition or symptom: that has been diagnosed prior to commencement of the policy. ... for which a patient has been given medication or advised to have medication prior to commencement of the policy.
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Sx. symptoms. surgery (though deemed by some as inappropriate)
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It is unacceptable to assign codes in the inpatient setting to diagnoses that are documented as being "probable," "suspected," or "likely." In the inpatient setting, a CPT code would be assigned for a procedure code. In the inpatient setting, the principal diagnosis is also called the "first-listed" diagnosis.
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['Pneumonoultramicroscopicsilicovolcanoconiosis (45 letters) ... ', 'Hippopotomonstrosesquippedaliophobia (36 letters) ... ', 'Supercalifragilisticexpialidocious (34 letters) ... ', 'Pseudopseudohypoparathyroidism (30 letters) ... ', 'Floccinaucinihilipilification (29 letters) ... ', 'Antidisestablishmentarianism (28 letters)']
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Pseudothrombocytopenia or spurious thrombocytopenia is an in-vitro sampling problem which may mislead the diagnosis towards the more critical condition of thrombocytopenia. The phenomenon occurs when the anticoagulant used while testing the blood sample causes clumping of platelets which mimics a low platelet count.