Surgical Paper Joshua Bedell Nursing 121Clinical Jan Johnson‚ Clinical Instructor Mott Community College Surgical Follow Through Paper For the duration of my surgical follow through experience‚ I had the pleasure of following RF. RF is a 49 year old male with an admitting diagnosis of cervicalgia cervical herniation‚ and a scheduled surgery for an anterior cervical discectomy and fusion at C4-C5 and C6-C7. According to Sharon Lewis in “Medical Surgical Nursing”‚ the cause of a cervicalgia cervical
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flow limited. The blood flow slows down and also the amount of oxygen decreased in the blood and it will not reach the vital organs in the body. The clot‚ often caused by rupturing or tearing of plaque in an artery‚ is sometimes called a coronary thrombosis or a coronary occlusion. The clot may then block the supply of blood running through the coronary artery‚ triggering a heart attack. Some of the symptoms of a heart attack are: * chest pain: the chest can feel like it is being pressed or squeezed
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Scientific Basis Congestive Heart Failure is a disease in which the heart is unable to properly keep up with the amount of blood being sent to the heart. The heart muscle itself‚ in the case of heart failure‚ is unable to sufficiently pump the blood away from the heart and to the body to keep up with the incoming deoxygenated flow. This failure to pump blood can build up pressure and cause additional pumping resistance. The decreased cardiac output of heart failure causes the circulation to become
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Dementia Awareness Unit 1. Explain what the term Dementia means 2. Describe the key functions of the brain that are affected by dementia 3. Explain why depression‚ delirium and age related memory impairment may be mistaken for dementia 4. Outline the medical models of dementia 5. Outline the social models of dementia 6. Explain why dementia should be viewed as a disability 7. List the most common causes of dementia 8. Describe the likely signs and symptoms of the most common causes
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1. HIV- pathophysiology‚ risk factors‚ testing‚ patient teaching (pets)‚ sentinel infections‚ NNRTIs/PIs action‚ needlestick length of tx (4 weeks)‚ CD4 count Patho—retrovirus that integrates itself into the genetic material of a host cell‚ changing the proviral DNA and encoding structure‚ regulatory‚ and accessory proteins within the cell. Reverse transcriptase help the virus produce in the host cell. Signs & Symptoms—none‚ possibly flu-like. Patient Teaching—prevention of secondary infection
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Hyper & Hypopituitarism Introduction Hyperpituitarism is the result of excess secretion of adenohypophyseal trophic hormones. Hypopituitarism is the decreased secretion of one or more of the pituitary hormones. If there is decreased secretion of most pituitary hormones‚ this condition is called panhypopituitarism (pan meaning "all"). Historical Background The pituitary was known by Galen‚ and various theories were proposed about its role in the body. In the late 19th century‚ acromegaly
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Medical Errors Medical errors are responsible for injury in as many as 1 out of every 25 hospital patients; an estimated 48‚000-98‚000 patients die from medical errors each year. This means that more people die from medical errors than from motor vehicle accidents‚ breast cancer‚ or AIDS. Errors in health care have been estimated to cost more than $5 million per year in a large teaching hospital‚ and preventable health care-related cost the economy from $17 to $29 billion each year. What are
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SC disease‚ an autoimmune recessive condition‚ is an inherited abnormality of red blood cells. Affected children inherit two copies of an abnormal hemoglobin gene‚ one from each parent. For couples where both individuals carry one copy of the abnormal gene‚ described as having SC trait or being a carrier for SC disease‚ there is a 1 in 4 chance of future children being affected by the disease (?) From a biomedical perspective‚ a high potential for benefit from sharing research-generated SC disease
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Overview of Pulmonary Embolism An embolism is a foreign mass that travels through the intravascular space carried by the systemic circulation. The mass may be solid‚ liquid or gaseous. The circulation carries the embolus through vessels to parts of the body where it can cause obstruction or occlusion. The Pulmonary Embolism (PE) occurs when the embolism causes an obstruction or occlusion of the pulmonary artery or one of its branches‚ which in turn reverts pressure on the right ventricle. A solid
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Med-Surg Success A Course Review Applying Critical Thinking to Test Taking Med-Surg Success KATHRYN CADENHEAD COLGROVE RN‚ MS‚ CNS‚ OCN Trinity Valley Community College Kaufman‚ Texas A Course Review Applying Critical Thinking to Test Taking JUDY CALLICOATT RN‚ MS‚ CNS Trinity Valley Community College Kaufman‚ Texas Consultant: Ray A. Hargrove-Huttel RN‚ PhD Trinity Valley Community College Kaufman‚ Texas F. A. Davis Company 1915 Arch Street Philadelphia‚ PA 19103 www.fadavis
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