Makati Medical Center College of Nursing DRUG STUDY Patient’s Name: M.D.C. Age: 42 y/o Medical Diagnosis: Leptospirosis Attending Physician/s: M.T Allergies: none Allergic Responses: none Prepared by: Shiela Guiquing |DRUG NAME |MECHANISM OF ACTION |RATIONALE FOR THIS PATIENT |ADVERSE DRUG EFFECT |NURSING IMPLICATIONS | |
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A person is lying sick in bed‚ but what is one sick from? The lack of a vaccination‚ or from the vaccinations itself? A vaccination is a microorganisms or toxins that have been weakened in order to help prevent disease. When given a vaccination‚ they inject some of germs of the disease into the person. A person’s immune system tries to fight off the disease by creating antibodies. The antibodies then work off to destroy the disease just like if the body was attacked by the actual disease. They
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HOW DOES DISEASE AFFECT THE LEVEL OF ORGANIZATION? * THE KIDNEY There are two kidneys‚ each about the size of a fist‚ located on either side of the spine at the lowest level of the rib cage. Each kidney contains up to a million functioning units called nephrons. A nephron consists of a filtering unit of tiny blood vessels called a glomerulus attached to a tubule. When blood enters the glomerulus‚ it is filtered and the remaining fluid then passes along the tubule. In the tubule‚ chemicals and
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thrombosis. Cardiac Tamponade What is cardiac tamponade? Cardiac tamponade: acute failure due to collection of blood or fluid in the pericardial sack compressing the heart. Sudden deterioration = may be bleeding into pericardial space. Causes: pericarditis/malignant disease/trauma/rupture of free wall of myocardium following MI. What are clinical features of cardiac tamponade? Symptoms: tachycardia‚ hypotension‚ gross elevation of JVP‚ dyspnoea‚ collapse‚ soft heart sounds with early third heart
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AIDS Victor Pena Mrs. Osgood Honors English 10 1) Introduction AIDS is a disease of the human immune system caused by infection with human immunodeficiency virus (HIV). HIV is transmitted primarily via unprotected sexual intercourse‚ contaminated blood transfusions‚ hypodermic needles‚ and from mother to child during pregnancy‚ delivery‚ or breastfeeding. There is no cure or vaccine‚ but‚ antiretroviral treatment can slow the course of the
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II. HISTORY OF PRESENT ILLNESS Three days prior to admission‚ the patient suffered from fever‚ cough‚ and colds. He didn’t receive any medications or even consulted a physician. One day prior to admission‚ he suffered difficulty of breathing which triggered his parents to bring him to the hospital. They went first in the OPD and he was assessed with (+) head hobbing‚ (+) nasal flaring‚ and (+) rales. He was admitted at the PICU ward for further evaluation. Through the diagnosis
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Medical Terminology at a Glance Studying medical terminology is like learning a new language Basic rules for building terms will help you both build and translate many different words You must be able to put words together or build words from their parts Like piecing together a puzzle Understanding Medical Terms It is impossible to memorize all of the thousands of medical terms You can distinguish the meaning of many different words by analyzing the word parts Word roots Combining forms
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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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depends on the underlying cause of the condition. ACTIVITY/REST * May report: Weakness‚ fatigue‚ exhaustion * May exhibit: Lethargy * Decreased muscle mass/tone CIRCULATION * May report: History of/recent onset of heart failure‚ pericarditis‚ rheumatic heart disease‚ or cancer (causing liver impairment leading to failure) * Easy bruising‚ nosebleeds‚ bleeding gums * May exhibit: Hypertension or hypertension (fluid shifts) * Dysrhythmias‚ extra heart sounds (S3‚ S4)
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Cardiovascular Case Study: Atrial Fibrillation and Oral Anticoagulation Scenario You are the nurse working in an anticoagulation clinic. K.N. is a patient who has a longstanding irregularly irregular heartbeat (atrial fi brillation‚ or A-fi b) for which he takes the oral anticoagulant warfarin (Coumadin). Recently‚ K.N. had his mitral heart valve replaced with a mechanical valve. You know that there are different PT/INR (prothrombin time/International Normalized Ratio) goal recommendations based
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