According to articles online about half of patients with kidney failure receive treatment and are cured. Scenario B Chronic renal failure: Mr. Hodges, a 73-year-old man, has had congestive heart failure for the past 5 years. His doctor has told him that his heart is not functioning well, needing more and more medicine to maintain circulatory function. He has noticed that he
Secondly, balance in the monitoring of high-risk patients was inadequate. Staff failed to implement additional monitoring for Mr. B. The patient needed extra monitoring due to had an increased dosage due to high tolerance to the prescribed sedatives. Leaving an untrained family member to attend to a patient in respiratory crisis was not only unsafe; it was in violation of established conscious-sedation protocol. Mr. B. was vulnerable when he was left unattended.
T.B has a mother, father, two brothers, and one sister, there is rarely any contact between them. Although there is no significant past family history psychologically, there is a history of past verbal abuse towards T.B from his mother and father, which is a contributing factor to his problems with coping and managing anger. Other contributing factors that negatively impact the client’s outcome of treatment are that he is single and lives alone and does not have contact with his family, so he has no support to help him manage his disorder, this is a particular problem with the medication regime, as T.B has a difficult time remembering to
Another key problem was that there were was no direct manipulation of the independent variable so the study doesn’t tell us which element of the stress index is most important and related to the decrease in immune function. Therefore a cause and effect relationship cannot be entirely confirmed, yet a strong correlation between the life stress and the common cold occurred, and for that reason it can be assumed that they were associated with one another. On the other hand the study measured the health outcomes of the participants which proved that there was a relationship between the variables. The results show that the higher the stress index it scored, the more susceptible the participants were to the common cold which subsequently supports Cohen’s theory. Also the study was covered by rigorous ethical considerations as all
1. The patient is a 31-year old Caucasian male who has been admitted several times for cyclic vomiting syndrome. The patient was diagnosed when he was a child, he was in remission from 15 years old to the middle 20s when the problem started again. The patient is on disability secondary to cyclic vomiting syndrome. Last year, the patient was hospitalized more than 4 months total for the problem.
IV. Conclusion Because the hospital or the nurse’s actions were not the proximate cause of Mr. Smith’s death, they should file for
8 hours. Then was transferred to a different hospitals ER again by ambulance and was isolated as Measles was the probable diagnosis. The family members were also told to isolate themselves. Laboratory serologic test confirmed a recent measles in the fifteen and sixteen yr. old. There were 97 contacts that had been interviewed and three of these which had been verified with
Niskayuna Hospital 1234 Meadowview Drive Niskayuna, New York (518)345-1000 REPORT May 7, 2010 McDonnell, Joseph CHIEF COMPLAINT: Numbness, partial paralysis of his left side of his face, crocodile tears, increased thirst, some loss of taste, and experiencing pain in both ears. HISTORY OF PRESENT ILLNESS: Mr. Joseph McDonnell is a 50 year old man with Type II Diabetes. He administers insulin as part of his treatment and tests his glucose levels regularly. He has no history of hypertension or stroke. 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.
I was assigned four patients in my medical telemetry unit. Out of the four patients, three patients were on continuous Tele monitoring. I noticed one of my patient's heart rate is shooting up to above 110 from 80 in a two-hour period. The patient was a young teenager admitted with motor vehicle accident and no known cardiac issues. My first thought was that the patient might be in severe pain even though he rated the pain as 5/10 on the pain scale of 1-10.
Within days of the physicians first day of stay many of the newly infected began showing signs and symptoms of the disease. Due to the international hub the disease quickly spread along the airways to major international cities in Viet Nam, Singapore, Taiwan, and Toronto each becoming a hot zone of infection (Severe Acute Respiratory Syndrome, 2003). The research team from WHO was able to present the timeline and outline the geographical spread from all information gathered. Unfortunately, the People’s Republic of China (PRC) did not first report this outbreak until February 2003 giving the virus a three month head start. While the physician, Dr. Jianlun stayed in Hong Kong after taking care of 34 cases of this illness in the Guangdong Province, overall it is estimated greater than 75% of the cases are related to him (Progress of the SARS Outbreak, 2013).