Case Study Of A User Undergoing A Radiographic Examination...

Case study of a user undergoing a radiographic examination or procedure Student I.D S149389 Word count: 2730 MI5-The Service User For this case study I will evaluate the care consideration for my patient with autism and how their additional needs were met in the X-ray department in order to accommodate the patient. We will consider the care of the service user and the adaptations in order to meet the needs of the patient. Throughout this examination we will look at legislations, policies and National Service Framework (NSF) that will shape the examination in order to provide care during the exam and aftercare of the patient. Following the Data Protection Act 1998 and NHS Code of practice 2003 (NHS England, 2014), it is our†¦show more content†¦Patients with ASD may imitate what is being said to them with limited speech and may find it difficult to process what is going on around them and so are prone to feeling disorientated as well as being less proficient, frustrated or anxious therefore practitioner should avoid frustration and emphatic towards the patient (National institute of mental health, 201 5) The pathology underlying the condition is related to the physiological process of the brain with environmental, psychological neurological and other health conditions (NHS choice, 2013). Hypothesis stated that environmental agent’s exposure to the mother while pregnant may contribute to the child’s development of ASD (NIH, 2015). The primary cause of ASD is an idiopathic process and so cannot identify the precise disease mechanism. ASD is a progressive disease and is characteristically diagnosed during early childhood and can persist throughout an individual lifetime, needing lifetime specialist support with functional impairment (John Hopkins, 2014). Studies has shown that as an individual diagnosed with ASD grows they have an significantly increased risk of developing medical and psychiatric disorders which is contributed from the biological make-up of the individual (Perkins et al, 2012) including dyslipidaemia, gastrointestinal problem, epilepsy hearing, visual impairments, asthma, hypertension, heart disease, cancer, osteoporosis and autoimmune