dobutamine 3 mg/kg/hr IV; furosemide (Lasix) 40 mg IV stat; digoxin 0.5 mg orally stat‚ then 0.125 every 6 hours for three doses‚ with ECG before doses 3 and 4; morphine 2 mg IV stat and then 2 mg IV every 1 to 2 hours PRN; oxygen 4 L/min per nasal cannula; schedule for an echocardiogram; no added salt diet; weigh daily and monitor input and output. 4. Explain the rationale for these medications and treatments: dobutamine increases the cardiac output without significantly increasing the heart rate
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Hospital Acquired Pneumonia October 7‚ 2010 Hospital Acquired Pneumonia Hospital acquired pneumonia is currently the second most common nosocomial infection in the United States and is associated with high mortality and morbidity (Seymann‚ 2008). This paper is a case study of a 52 year old female who was in the hospital for a scheduled gastric bypass surgery. During a post-op test she aspirated dye thus beginning the process of her developing nosocomial pneumonia. The patient was
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Quinnipiac University Diagnostic Imaging RS 298L Oxygen Delivery Systems - Review Assignment NAME: _______Erika Barnett______________ 1. Adequate oxygen is essential to ___life_____. 2. Oxygen cannot be stored in the body; supply from external environment must be ____obtained___________. 3. Lungs supply oxygen and remove ___Carbon Dioxide_____. 4. A major supply of oxygen is carried in combination with ____hemoglobin____________. 5. Effectiveness of pulmonary function is
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Electrocardiogram‚ non-invasive blood pressure‚ pulse oximetry‚ end tidal carbon dioxide and temperature monitoring. Baseline vitals were recorded PR-100bpm‚ NIBP-140/80 mm of Hg‚ RR-18min‚ temperature -37.10 C‚ SpO2-100% on room air. An 18 gauze intravenous cannula was secured on left upper limb and ringer lactate transfusion started. Under strict aseptic precautions‚ bilateral superficial cervical plexus block and superior laryngeal nerve block was performed with local anesthetic mixture of 10 mL of 0.5%bupivacaine
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Current Events in Business Research Jennifer Howse Res/351 May 11‚ 2015 Tracy Sipma Current Events in Business Research Phlebotomist and nurses has been around for years and the article I am writing about will describe the business research process that came about to help prevent needles sticks. How needle sticks occur The main reason health care workers are stuck by needles are from negligence. They are not taking the proper precautions and not following proper protocol when it comes to properly
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Whilst on this placement‚ I have worked alongside and assisted nursing Sisters‚ staff nurses‚ auxiliary nurses‚ physiotherapists‚ consultants‚ clinical fellows and house officers. I have assisted clinical fellows and house officers to insert a cannula into a patient’s vein. I have assisted the physiotherapist to transfer and mobilize patients. I have discussed the progress of patients with the physiotherapist. I have assisted the auxiliary nurses with the washing‚ bathing‚ dressing and toileting
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HEAPA 2000 Minor Injuries & Illnesses for Urgent and Pre-hospital clinicians CONTENTS; * Page 2 – contents * Page 3 - One Patient report forms prior to course with additional comments * Page 3 - Reflection One with patient report form * Page 4 - Refection Two with patient report form * Page 5 - Reflection Three with patient report form * Page 6 - Reflection Four with patient report form * Pages 7 – 11 – Additional patient report
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The most important current nursing problem regarding Margaret is her breathing. Margaret is experiencing breathlessness which is defined medically as dyspnoea and describes laboured or difficult breathing (Calverley‚ Macnee‚ Pride & Rennard‚ 2012). patients that experience dyspnoea frequently describe the feeling of the inability to get enough air and a feeling of smothering‚ tightness‚ drowning‚ or suffocation. When a patient experience’s dyspnoea they commonly describe symptoms of an inability
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I was four years old when my life came to a crashing stop. I have had people tell me that there is no way that I could so clearly remember something that happened to me at just four years old. My family has filled in some details for me‚ but there are things that I remember as if they only happened yesterday. It all started during the last week of January 2000. I had caught a cold. It was no big deal. A couple of days of rest and some fluids and I would be just fine. At least that is what the doctors
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he injected a local anesthetic in just the right spot. This was truly the only part that hurt. Once the numbing kicked in‚ I had to lie completely still. A nurse stood at my side and held my hands for reassurance. I felt the pressure of the metal cannula push into my spine. I could sense the
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