Bowles 2 Introduction "Blood Work", by Holly Tucker is "A Tale of Medicine & Murder in the Scientific Revolution." The book is a story about Holly Tucker's adventure on trying to find out who actually murdered a madman from Paris hundreds of years ago. that goes by the name, Antoine Mauroy. Today, Mauroy's death interests Tucker and she wants to get to the bottom of this and see who is to blame for his unexpected death.…
Katie, a 24 year old pregnant female, 33 weeks gestation is admitted to the hospital in sickle cell crisis. Also, she has preeclampsia and is in a tremendous amount of pain. Katie has a medical history of taking opioids and morphine during her pregnancy for pain due to her sickle cell disease. The doctors take Katie right back to the delivery room and prep her for a cesarean section. The baby is born and taken to the Intensive Care Nursery for monitoring due to prematurity and low birth weight.…
Samantha Seto HSA6119 April 11, 2015 New operational strategies are designed to improve the overall function of the organization and improve efficiency. The result is an increase in profitability and function of the employees. This implementation can change in company functions can be disruptive and can become costly as employees muddle through the process and learn new procedures, computer programs and loss in productivity can occur. Reducing costs, negative effects and frustrations of taking on new strategies, an implementation strategy should be developed.…
How would you define the central issue in this case? The main issue in this case seems to be a lack of communication between Lanesha, her grandma, and the doctor. Each one has a different perspective about why the situation is so strenuous. If they could each understand the other’s perspective, Lanesha would have an easier time accessing medication and following through with treatment.…
J.D. is a general medicine intern who is afraid to make any mistakes as his intern friends have already got patients mixed up and gotten in trouble. Turk mistake was he almost cut off the testicle of someone who actually needed an appendix removed. J.D.’s other friend Elliot by mistakenly got a urine sample mixed up and told someone they were pregnant even though they weren’t. Ben, Dr. Cox’s best friend, came in for a medical exam after he got a nail through his hand. When Ben’s sister came to see Ben they started fighting.…
Review of the medical record indicates that she was recently admitted to MHS for complaints of increasing fatigue, lethargy and leakage from her indwelling foley catheter. She had a urology consulted with Dr. Beltran for evaluation of chronic indwelling urinary catheter and persistent leakage with recurrent UTI. Review of her medical history indicates multiple sclerosis, UTI, Memory loss, Pressure ulcer, facial neuralgia, blood transfusion, chronic kidney disease, decubitus ulcer of back, GERD (gastroesophageal reflux disease), hypertension and legally blind. At today’s visit she is accompanied by her husband.…
On daily routine, Halah and eight other recently graduated students would work under the supervision of a doctor named Wasan. The situation in this scenario is that after only one month of training the supervisor had to go on sick leave for a day, so the training students were left out alone with no supervision of a professional pediatrician. To solve this problem, the supervisor sent a message telling the training students to get in a group of two and gave them a project. The project required getting two patients’ cases; deal with it and then send their work to her. So, Halah and her coworker Vivian were assigned to search about tow patients’ cases, one of whom was having a barking cough, hoarseness and noisy breathing.…
Buyannemekh Munkhbat MIE 657 Case Study 7, 8 Event Horizon Summary Michael Colombini, only 6 years of age, had a brain surgery for his benign tumor. Although his brain surgery was successful, he died in accident at the hospital. When Michael was having MRI scan after the surgery at Westchester Medical Center, he was in sedated state. Therefore, he needed to have supplementary oxygen piped to him while the scans were under way. Since no object containing iron or anything magnetic is allowed in MRI room, two large oxygen cylinders were located in the different room.…
16 Organization: Memorial Blood Centers Memorial Blood Centers (MBC) is an independent nonprofit organization licensed under the 501(c)(3) and relies on volunteers to give blood and other blood components to help those who are in need of it. In order to meet the center 's mission, they partner with companies, corporations, organizations, and hospitals to impact a range of people. Therefore, Memorial Blood Centers is a social care organization that aims to create a blood sustainable environment for individuals.…
Elder Mistreatment Case Study This case study was concerning the health and safety of Mr. Edward McKay in his home. Mr. McKay is an 82 year old gentleman who after suffering two cerebral vascular accidents has been left with left sided hemiplegia and is unable to speak. He is bedridden with bilateral lower extremity contractures, incontinent, dysphasic and dysphagic. Mr. McKay’s physical condition alone would require total care on a 24 hour basis to assist with feeding, changing and turning him. He lives with his only daughter and son in law and has no other people who check on him or assist with care in his family.…
The child was examined by Dr. Tabba and the child seemed upset. The child was red in the vaginal area, reporter did not see vaginal discharge. Reporter stated the doctor believes the child because of her age and the things she said. The doctor did not go into details with the child because of her age. The child told the doctor that JJ was the only one that touch her there and she was not going to let him do it again.…
Imagine a little boy riding his bike down a gravel road. He takes a turn too sharp and takes a really bad fall and scrapes up the entire left side of his face. His cheek stings; he touches it, and sees blood on his hand. The boy screams and runs frantically into his house. When his mother finds him she is completely horrified, seeing her child bloodied and crying.…
Marguerite M. is an 89 –years –old female was admitted to the cardiac ICU (intensive care unit) in Chicago’s Memorial Hospital after a heart attack. Doctor K. is an internist and close family friend of Marguerite M. Doctor K. ordered an angiogram to establish the status of Marguerite infarction. An angiogram and treatment needed to be done within first six hours after infarction to be effective. Doctor K knows that. In the case of Marguerite procedure should be done as soon as the surgical team is going to prepare angiography room.…
Venous blood samples (~5 ml) were collected from normal healthy subjects (n-10) and patients presenting with NSTEMI (n=50) on admission. Based on the duration between the onset of chest pain symptoms and hospital admission, samples were divided into three groups such as hospital admission within 1 hour ( ≤1 hr), or after 1 hour but within 4 hours ( ≥1 hr -≤4 hrs) and after 4 hours but within 8 hours (≥4 hrs- ≤8 hrs) after the onset of chest pain. Half of the blood sample was allowed to stand overnight at 4˚C before being centrifuged at 1500 × g for 10 min to obtain serum (Schaeffer et al, 2000). The resultant serum was aliquoted into RNase/DNase-free tubes and stored at -80° Cuntil RNA extraction.…
Hematology Assignment 1 Name: Asenaca Matameli Student ID: s160177 Hematology Case 3-2 Answers: 1) Fred G, the 22 year old white man has leukocytosis as his White blood cell (WBC) count is increased (16.5×10^9/L) as shown in the Complete Blood Count results. This raises the intuition of blunt trauma and it is also an initial marker of injury along with physical exam. Leukocytosis in trauma is however due to neutrophilia as seen in this patient having a high neutrophil count.…