NURS 245 Lecture Notes - Lecture 1: Stroke Volume, Telomerase, Etiology
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People can sill be unhealthy even if they don"t have a disease or illness. Prevenion is always beter and always cheaper than restoraion. Eiology: what is the cause of the problem. Pathogenesis: how does that virus play out in a paricular area. Syndrome: a collecion of both signs and symptoms that can be a characterisic of a number of diferent diseases: oten have to treat syndrome before treaing actual cause. Complicaions: a secondary process that manifested because the irst process increased its risk of occurrences by weakening the immune system: people oten die due to complicaions. Characterized by: very fast onset, ranges in severity, may go away with treatment, resolve by itself, or cause death. Characterized by: onset is over a longer period of ime, rangers in severity, but tends to get progressively worse, periods of exacerbaion/remission>cyclical. Each exacerbaion that you have is going to be worse than the last one you had.
