Case Study on a Patient with Appendicitis
APPENDICITIS
Case study
Patient name: J.K
Sex: Male
Race: Fijian
Age: 47
Personal History
Mr. J.K is married with four children. He describes himself as a socialable person likes to explore new things.
Occupation:
He works at the Nasinu Town Council as a Carpenter
Family History: -his father is a known diabetic patient and his grandmother died of leukemia -his paternal uncle had died from septicemia.
Social History:
Cigarettes 1 pack per week x 12years now; he stopped smoking in 2000 and continued again recently. He drinks alcohol occasionally when a function occurs at home. Social drinker. He has been married for 18years; he has 4 children who are healthy. He is currently a carpenter at Nasinu Town Council.
Past Medical History:
He was admitted once back when he was a young boy in 1975 because he had a fractured arm. The patient denies allergies to any medications, foods or animals. The patient claims that he only suffered from two common childhood illnesses, chicken pox and measles, when he was a kid. According to him he was completely immunized when he was a child as evidence by scars on the patient’s left and right deltoid. Presenting Problems:
CHIEF COMPLAINT
Four days prior to admission because of cough and fever
The appendix is a closed-ended, narrow tube up to several inches inlength that attaches to the cecum the 1 st part of the colon like a worm. The anatomical name for the appendix, vermiform appendix, means worm like appendage. The inner lining of the appendix produces a small amount of mucus that flows through the open center of the appendix and into the cecum.The wall of the appendicitis contains lymphatic tissue that is part of the immune system for making antibodies. Like the rest of the colon, the wall of the appendix also contains a layer of muscle but the muscle is fully developed .The appendicitis is the inflammation of the vermiform appendix and was 1 st Described as a pathologic condition by
Case study
Patient name: J.K
Sex: Male
Race: Fijian
Age: 47
Personal History
Mr. J.K is married with four children. He describes himself as a socialable person likes to explore new things.
Occupation:
He works at the Nasinu Town Council as a Carpenter
Family History: -his father is a known diabetic patient and his grandmother died of leukemia -his paternal uncle had died from septicemia.
Social History:
Cigarettes 1 pack per week x 12years now; he stopped smoking in 2000 and continued again recently. He drinks alcohol occasionally when a function occurs at home. Social drinker. He has been married for 18years; he has 4 children who are healthy. He is currently a carpenter at Nasinu Town Council.
Past Medical History:
He was admitted once back when he was a young boy in 1975 because he had a fractured arm. The patient denies allergies to any medications, foods or animals. The patient claims that he only suffered from two common childhood illnesses, chicken pox and measles, when he was a kid. According to him he was completely immunized when he was a child as evidence by scars on the patient’s left and right deltoid. Presenting Problems:
CHIEF COMPLAINT
Four days prior to admission because of cough and fever
The appendix is a closed-ended, narrow tube up to several inches inlength that attaches to the cecum the 1 st part of the colon like a worm. The anatomical name for the appendix, vermiform appendix, means worm like appendage. The inner lining of the appendix produces a small amount of mucus that flows through the open center of the appendix and into the cecum.The wall of the appendicitis contains lymphatic tissue that is part of the immune system for making antibodies. Like the rest of the colon, the wall of the appendix also contains a layer of muscle but the muscle is fully developed .The appendicitis is the inflammation of the vermiform appendix and was 1 st Described as a pathologic condition by