The case manager makes a home visit to the client's household and finds that the client has become psychotic in the prior 3 days
and has bolted himself in the his room. The case manager works to encourage the client to come out and calls the ambulance to take the client to the emergency department. At what level of prevention is the case manager working?
This is secondary level of prevention.The aim is to provide timely intervention, so that full manifestation of a disease condition is prevented.
its involves early detection of a disease onset, analysis of the probable risks that may be involved, and arrangement of clinical intervention to arrest the manifestation of the diseases and its symptoms ; <em>it is like subduing the progression of a disease that is without symptoms(asymptomatic) so that the deceases will not produce symptoms become(symptomatic)</em>
This procedure involve some clinical assessments- test for glucose, the blood pressure of the subject, the levels of blood cholesterol , the bone density etc. to enable the health practitioner to make early intervention.
