What is G-tube?
Elevated body temperature.
What is hyperthermic?
Rib cage.
What is Thorax?
Identifying health information that can be linked to a person individually.
What is Protected Health Information (PHI)?
This catheter is placed above the pubic bone through an opening in the skin.
What is Suprapubic catheter?
This is a condition in which the body overheats.
What is hyperthermia?
Individual bone of the spine; plural form is vertebrae.
What is Vertebra?
What is Protection and Advocacy (P&A)?
Feeding tubes placed into the small bowl to reduce the risk of aspiration.
What is small bowel tube feeding.
An enhanced state of arousal and sensitivity to potential dangers in the environment, often accompanied by anxiety; a frequent symptom of PTSD.
What is Hypervigilance?
Pertaining to the ribs.
What is Thoracic?
What is tracheostomy tube?
The involuntary increase in muscle tone and exaggerated deep tendon reflexes; overactive and over-responsive reflexes.
Part of the limbic system; most commonly associated with memory functioning.
What is Hippocampus?
A ruling made by the US Supreme Court requiring the provision of community-based services when such services are available and not opposed by that patient(s) in question, as opposed to being institutionalized.
What is the Olmstead decision?
Entry of foreign matter, such as enteral feeding, into the respiratory system.
What is Tracheal aspiration?
What is Hyperphagia?
Where the first cervical vertebra connects to the head at the base of the skull.
A federal law, enacted in 1981, authorizing the establishment of home and community-based Medicaid waivers, allowing states to provide medical and related services tailored to the unique needs of a particular population.
What is Omnibus Budget Reconciliation Act?