Case Study 3 A woman brings her 6-month-old son to the pediatrician. You are following the doctor as part of your physician’s assistant training. Before you enter the examining room the physician pulls the chart off the door and hands it to you. The nurse has written on the chart that the chief complaint is a group of lesions on the child’s back. You enter the room and greet the mother.
They spent a good amount in the store but it was just because they weren’t prepared. A few weeks after, Meredith was rushed to the hospital to give birth to her 8 pounds 7 oz. baby boy named Luke. A month later she had to attend the physician’s office to make sure everything was doing well with her and her infant. A couple of months after she realized her child had no toys to play with so she took him to the toy company to pick out a few toys, and ended up getting a ton!
(Feldman, 2001 p. 54) Arabella was full term, fully developed, and ready for birth, her mother’s body released the protein CRH which started the process of birth. Her labor seemed like it was an eternity, but was only 8 hours of contractions and hour and a half of labor, before Arabella was through the birth canal and into the Mid-wife’s hands. Following Arabella was the placenta and umbilical cord, which was still attached to Arabella. (Feldman, 2011, p.61-62). Arabella Dawn Barker’s mother welcomed her into the world on October 13, 2012.
The link between the baby’s present condition and the three-year-old sisters is that, the three year old might have transferred the virus to the six month old through touch, coughing or sneezing. As it is with shingles the virus was dormant for four month till the time that their mother noted the blister like lesions on the babies back (page17). 4.The baby did not have symptomatic illness when his sister was experiencing it because at the time, the baby was being breast fed by the mother. This means the baby was getting natural antibiotics from his mother through the breast milk. Two moths after the cessation of breast-feeding, the baby did not have that protection anymore.
Adrianne Scott Cwv-101 06/14/2015 Valerie De La Torre Benchmark assignment: ethical dilemma Sarah and her husband has been trying to have their first born for 5 years to discover their growing baby has tested positive for tay-sachs disease and down syndrome. Getting the heartbreaking news she started to think about abortion and rather or not it was the right thing to do to go forward with her pregnancy. Sarah and her husband has been trying to conceive for a very long time and there trying has turned into her finally getting her wish. Sarah thought if she aborted her child it would save her child from coming into this sinful world full of hate, pain, hurt and spare her child of suffering. Sarah contacted a close friend of hers to name Diana blue who is a pediatrician and is and atheist to receive some advice on her situation.
My friend lifted up her shirt, showed her a bright red (not pink) belly, and told her mother she had been calling and informing the doctor's office for days. They simply told her it was normal to have pain, not to worry, and they could not fit her in for an appointment until the following week. From the site of my friends stomach, her mother rushed her to the emergency room in horror. What my friend had was a horrible disease called necrotizing fasciitis and it had spread through parts of her body like wild fire. So I began investigating and found that she was not the only one.
Lovenox is prescribed. 1 mg/kg subQ every 12 hours. What intervention should the nurse include in the plan of care? D -- Keep the head of the bed elevated #7 The nurse in monitoring Nancy's condition closely. Which finding would require immediate intervention by the nurse?
Tay Sachs Counseling After several years of marriage, Rita and Peter Trosack began trying to conceive a baby but were unsuccessful for two years. Finally, the news they had been waiting for came and Mrs. Trosack was pregnant. At her initial prenatal visit, the obstetrician recommended chorionic villus sampling (CVS) because of her age. This exciting time changed direction when the CVS results indicated that her fetus was afflicted with Tay-Sachs disease. This long awaited celebratory occasion quickly turned into an emotional nightmare and a high-risk pregnancy.
Shots of a fertility hormone are administered for seven to eleven days, to stimulate the production of an abnormally large number of egg-containing follicles. During this time the donor must have her blood tested every other day so that doctors can monitor her hormone levels, and she must come in for periodic ultrasounds. Thirty-six hours before retrieval day a shot of hCG, human chorionic gonadotropin, is administered to prepare the eggs for release, so that they will be ready for
The mother asked the pre-op nurse how long the procedure would take, because she had to tend to another child and would need to leave for a short while. The nurse told her the procedure would take approximately an hour and forty five minutes, which included recovery. The mother handed the nurse her cell phone number and asked to be called if the surgery was shorter than predicted. The mother insisted that she was only gone for two and a half hours, and when she returned to pick up her child, the child had been discharged to the father thirty minutes prior. She became very agitated, and security was called for assistance.