She collapsed to the floor and died despite attempts to resuscitate her. At the time of the incident there was 12 other patients in the dining room also needing support with eating but only one carer was available. The coroner's court heard how this was the second time Mrs Taylor had suffered from a choking incident while in the care home. Collette Puntis, safeguarding adult co-ordinator for Hampshire Adult services, told the hearing that due to poor care plans, there was confusion among staff about how food should be prepared for Mrs Taylor and how much supervision she should have. She said " The instructions were not clear or consistent or specific enough.
Maria Worrall aged 78years had been diagnosed with Alzheimer’s and had suffered several falls; she had ended up bed bound and admitted to hospital. Whilst at hospital it was agreed that Maria would need to go into a nursing home as she was no longer able to do anything for herself and needed to be cared for. Jane Worrall cared for her mother for a little while she would do all the dressing, bathing and cooking. Jane fell pregnant and wasn’t able to manage the care her mother needed anymore so she had looked at several homes and liked the look of ash court and from the ratings on the internet from the CQC were giving an excellent
When Dorothea was 7 years old she was seriously affected by polio that led to have a permanent limp, and having a lonely childhood. Her dad left her and her mother and he vanished from their lives and she never saw him again. Her real name was not Dorothea Lange but it was really Dorothea Nutzhorn she change it because she wanted a new beginning. She marry two times the first was Maynard Dixon but she divorced him then she married Paul Schuster Taylor. What you may not know about Lange is that she the one that took the most famous photographs about the Great Depression.
I was in a double room and my roommate, Marie, a heavy girl, had jumped off the roof of her house and shattered her knee. She was there almost as long as I was and I later saw her at physical therapy. She never walked the same again and experienced several complications while in the hospital. What seemed like a simple fracture turned into a nightmare for her, and what seemed like a hopeless situation for me turned out alright. I couldn’t help but wonder why I was so lucky.
Victoria had been racially abused by a white patient, staff had tried their best to move her off the ward, and this has made akinyemi very annoyed and angry. After this many nurses covered her mouth and blind folded her for 20 minutes, in result to this Victoria then died of asphyxiation. Adding on to this her family was not informed about her death for 4 days. In June 2012, an inquest came to a result of ‘unintentional death’. The coroner made suggestions to improve practices.
Case Study #2: A 20 year old woman was brought to the ED in a comatose state. Her roommate stated that the patient had been nauseated earlier in the day. Upon physical examination, it was noted that the patient was breathing deeply and rapidly, her breath had a fruity odor and her skin and mucus membranes were dry. The family was contacted and the mother stated that the woman brother had Type I diabetes. The following laboratory results were obtained: CHEMISTRY PANEL REFERENCE RANGE Na 128 mmol/L (136-146 mmol/L) K 5.7 mmol/L (3.5-5.0 mmol/L) Cl 88 mmol/L (98-109 mmol/L) HCO3 9mmol/L (22-28 mmol/L) BUN 50 mg/dl (5-20 mg/dl) Osmolality 310 mOsm/kg (285-295 mOsm/kg) pH 7.12 (7.35-7.45) pCO2 28 mmHg (35-46 mm Hg) Glucose 750 mg/dl (70-105 mg/dl) Urine Glucose 4+ Serum Acetone 3+ 1.
One of these neighbors was finally compelled to call the police when she heard Peter’s continual cries through the bathroom window. Police found him on the floor of the bathroom with a shattered hip and bleeding head. He had been laying there in pain for some time after Mandy, frustrated with having to help him with his personal hygiene, pushed him off the toilet and left the house in a rage. This story is not the only story on elderly abuse there are many more out there. Elderly abuse is not a joke it does happen.
Iman Rashid The Terri Schiavo Case The Terry Schiavo case is the most widely known coma case. This case is about a woman name Theresa Marie Schiavo, who at the age of 26, collapsed into a coma, causing her brain to be deprived of oxygen for five minutes thus putting her into a persistent vegetative state for about 15 years ( meaning she had very little brain activity). The conflicts started when husband, Michael Schiavo wanted to remove her off life support, while her parents, Robert and Mary Schindler, argued to keep their daughter alive. It is clear that every one of us has different opinions on whether we want to keep our loved ones on life support or how long we should keep them on it, but the question is who should decide
ENG 121 24, Feb. 2013 Tylenol Murders On the morning of September 29, 1982, a bright 12-year-old girl named Mary Kellerman of Elk Grove Village, Illinois, woke up early complaining of a sore throat and a runny nose. Her parents chose to give her an Extra-Strength Tylenol capsule to make her feel better. Around 7 a.m., they found Mary collapsed on the bathroom floor. In hope of getting her help, the parents rushed their daughter’s unresponsive body to the local hospital. Mary was pronounced dead.
Risk Assessment: Cor Pulmonale NR 282 Pathophysiology II Spring B – 2013 Cor Pulmonale Introduction My patient is a 42 year old Hispanic female with a past medical history of pneumonia and hypertension. She is a single mother with one child (son) and is employed as a cleaner in a general hospital. She denies smoking but drinks alcohol occasionally. She denies using recreational drugs. The patient presented to her physician’s office with shortness of breath, chest pain, excessive coughing, and excessive fatigue and states that, “she has fainted on occasion before”.