Vision and Skin
Increased tntraocular pressure
What is Glaucoma?
Ringing in the ears
What is tinnitus
Decrease or lack of meaningful stimuli
What is Sensory Deprivation
This seizure type may appear as if the person is staring into space
What is Absence
Visual, Auditory, Olfactory, tactile, and gustatory
What is Components of Sensory reception
Non-blanchable redness of intact skin
What is a Stage I pressure ulcer
Triad of vertigo, tinnitus, and hearing loss
What is Meniere's Disease
Occurs when a person is unable to process or manage the amount or intensity of sensory stimuli
What is Sensory Overload
Prematurity, brain tumor, brain abscess, cerebral palsy, head injury, family history, drugs, electrolyte imbalances
What are risk factors for seizures
Receptors found in the skin and allow transcription of our external environment
What is Touch
Adequate lighting, large text, color coding, correct prescription for glasses
What is Sensory aids for visual deficits
Age at which hearing loss becomes more common
Over age 50
Impaired reception, perception, or both of one or more of the senses
This common medication for epilepsy works by blockade of voltage-dependent membrane sodium channels responsible for increasing the action potential
What is Phenytoin (Dilantin)
Stress, medications, illness, lifestyle, personality
What is Factors that influence Sensory Function
Full-thickness skin loss with possible subcutaneous fat showing, but without bone, tendon or muscle exposed
What is a Stage III pressure ulcer
Amplified telephones, flashing alarm clocks & smoke detectors, lip reading, sign language
What is Sensory aids for Hearing Deficits
Minimize unnecessary noise, distractions, and allowing patients uninterrupted periods of rest and sleep
What is Nursing Interventions to prevent Sensory Overload
These are ways to treat medication-resistant epilepsy
What are vagus nerve stimulation, deep brain stimulation, and brain surgery
Increased use of salt and sugar to improve taste
What are age-related taste bud changes
Immobility, low body weight, sensory changes, low albumin, incontinence
What are risk factors for pressure ulcers (pressure injuries)
Antibiotics, Diuretics, NSAIDs, Chemo Agents
What is Ototoxic Medications
Encourage use of glasses hearing aids, address by name, fresh flowers, pets, games and puzzles
What is Nursing Interventions to prevent Sensory Deprivation
This tool is used to diagnose seizure activity by measuring the electrical activity of the brain and looking for seizure spikes
What is an EEG (electroencephalogram)
Loss of near vision, loss of high-frequency sounds in hearing, reduced taste buds, impaired balance
What are age-related changes in sensory systems