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Term	Definition
Hypoglycemia	Low blood sugar.
Oxygen Therapy
PEG	PEG Tube.  Percutaneous Endoscopic Gastronomy.  This is used to allow patients that cannot eat by mouth to gain nourishment.  Click here for more information.
Psychosis	Severe mental illness marked by loss of contact with reality, often involving delusions, hallucinations, and disordered thinking.
Schizophrenia	Severe mental disorder in which thinking, mood, and behavior are disturbed.
Tracheostomy	This is a device inserted into the neck/air passage to allow a person to breathe that cannot otherwise do so through the mouth or nose due to a blockage. Click here for more information on the surgery. Click here for more information on care. More information is available at thriveonline.com which I cannot reproduce here due to copyrighted material.
Urinary Catheter	This is a device inserted into the bladder to allow urine to be passed from the body.  Click here for more information.