Instead, the colour spread. By the end of the week, Jason says Logan’s entire body was as “yellow as a Simpsons character,” and his stomach had filled with fluid, becoming distended. Logan’s blood work revealed he was experiencing liver failure, but his doctors had no idea why. The family was transferred from their local hospital in Hamilton to department 6A—the transplant wing—in SickKids hospital in Toronto. The Hampsons didn’t know it then, but it’s where they would spend much of the next four years, a place they would ruefully come to call their home away from home.
RTT1 Task 1 Carmen Miranda-Maze Western Governors University RTT1 TASK 1 In this scenario several hospital employees provide care for a 72 year-old male retired rabbi patient. The patient was admitted with a broken hip, he is restrained and during his stay he was given the wrong meal tray. Nursing-sensitive indicators such as pressure ulcers and patient satisfaction will be addressed. These indicators can be addressed and measured by the hospital through collecting data pertaining to pressure ulcer prevention and Press Ganey scores for patient satisfaction. The ethical issue of the wrong food tray will be addressed by using the appropriate referrals and resources.
Identify sites where a pulse may be taken in the hospitalized patient 5. Discuss common errors in blood pressure assessment Timothy Smith is a 46 year old male patient. He has returned to the unit from the recovery room for post-op hernia repair under general anesthesia. You take his vital signs 99F, P/80, RR/18, BP-120/84, O2Sat 94% RA, 3/10 pain abdomen. Focused Questions: 1.
Imagine a healthy man, sixty years old, recently retired, with many years left to spend with his wife, four children, ten grandchildren, and two great-grandchildren. Then one day he begins experiencing difficulty swallowing and slurred speech. After being told by his daughter that these could be symptoms of a stroke, he turns to his doctor for answers. As his swallowing and speech worsen, each diagnostic test is inconclusive. Finally, after several months of increasing frustration and decreasing health, he is diagnosed with amyotrophic lateral sclerosis, or ALS.
He had Sarcoidosis three years ago and it was treated with Prednisone prescription at onset to control severe rash symptoms and then with Dexamethasone afterwards, to clear the redness, swelling and irritation. His symptoms cleared and subsided. Mr. McDonnell said two days ago he thought he had influenza or the common cold because of his cold or flu-like symptoms,d loss of taste and appetitie and pain in his ears. When he began to experience facial problems he got concerned. He thought he’d had a mini-stroke.
The patient is alert and oriented times 4. Swollen with 3+ pitting edema on both lower legs, palpation is very warm, and reddish colored dots appearing on the surface of the skin. The patient winces in pain as palpate the area. Patient as a history of diabetes mellitus 2, HTN, hyperlipidemia, hypertension, right hip replacement 2007 and left inguinal herniorrhaphy done over 30 years ago, and tonsillectomy in his childhood. Patient denies any recent tobacco and ETOH use.
Mineralocorticoids, mostly aldosterone, are essential to regulation of electrolyte concentrations of extracellular fluids. 2. Aldosterone secretion is regulated by the renin-angiotensin mechanism, fluctuating blood concentrations of sodium and potassium ions, and secretion of ACTH. 3. Glucocorticoids are released in response to stress through the action of ACTH.
The thoughts of his friends degrading him for eating “Asian” food for lunch dwelled in his subconscious for months, or perhaps even years. Pedro’s solution was simple: get rid of the traditional Asian food and eat whatever everyone else eats, which was Lunchables. He simply wanted to fit in and not be teased anymore. He felt utter humiliation, so refraining himself from bringing what his mom packed him for
We sat patiently waiting to hear from the doctor. When the doctor finally came in, he asked if the patient had had a recent major heart attack and when we replied that he had not, he seemed not to believe us. His heart valve had disintegrated and all of his blood had begun to rush backwards causing all of his other major organs to shut down on him. The doctor said he had to have had a major heart attack within the last ten days in order for that valve to deteriorate the way it did. The doctor told us that this man was as sick as a man could be and still be alive.
Unfortunately my bladder was full of blood. One of the many cysts on my kidneys had ruptured and filling my bladder with blood. I was immediately admitted into the hospital which left me no choice but to call my kids, my mom and my dad who came to the hospital within the hour. It seemed like they were by my bedside within