Acronyms
BAI
What is Beck Anxiety Inventory?
Often recommended for patients with sleep apnea to improve oxygen intake during sleep.
What is a CPAP (Continuous Positive Airway Pressure) machine?
The benefits, such as money or attention, gained from having an illness.
What is secondary gain?
Cares for the personal needs of the ward.
What is guardian of the person?
Nerve cells that communicate to other neurons.
What is neurons?
GOAT
What is Gavelston Orientation and Amnesia Test?
Biological rhythm controlled by a biological clock, regulating bodily functions, including sleep.
What is circadian rhythm?
Pathophysiological events that occur following the initial primary injury to the brain.
What is secondary injury?
A rehabilitative specialty practice that focuses on improving ability to perform tasks for independent functioning, if functions are impaired or lost; and prevention, through early intervention, of initial or further impairment or loss of function.
The part of the brain that acts as the major relay station for incoming and outgoing sensory information.
What is thalamus?
PBA
What is Pseudobulbar affect?
A characteristic and unique feature of narcolepsy. It is described by sudden loss of bilateral muscle tone; the duration is usually short, ranging from a few seconds to several minutes.
What is cataplexy?
Caused by projected or falling debris or explosive fragments that impact the body or head.
What is secondary blast injury.
Registered nurses with specific training in Life Care Planning who have met rigorous certification standards.
What is Certified Nurse Life Care Planner (CNLCP)?
The junction between the axon of one neuron and the dendrite of another neuron.
NINDS
What is National Institute of Neurological Disorders and Stroke?
A professional organization dedicated to the suspecialty of sleep medicine and the treatment of sleep disorders.
What is American Academy of Sleep Medicine (AASM)?
What is tertiary blast injury?
In order to be certified candidates are expected to complete a minimum of 120 hours of approved training that is in compliance with ICHCC standards and have expertise in research, integration, interpretation, and management of such plans for people with catastrophic disabilities.
What is Certified Life Care Planner (CLCP)?
The space between the axon and the other neuron's dendrite.
What is synaptic gap?
PCL
What is PTSD checklist?
An assessment tool that measures daytime sleepiness.
What is Epworth Sleepiness Scale?
Injury to the brain not caused by impact but as a result of inertial forces, such as acceleration-deceleration forces.
What is traumatic inertial injuries?
Psychotherapists and other health care providers who have a legal obligation to warn third parties of a risk of violence, contagious disease or other risk, based on confidential statements of a patient. In such cases, patient-provider confidentiality is waived.
What is duty to warn?
A small, round structure in the midbrain, below the thalamus.
What is superior colliculus?