Case Study Formal Write Up
To ensure the privacy of our patient: his name is disclosed to the public
Initial Impressions The middle- aged yr. old patient was experiencing moderate discomfort and substernal chest pressure. With this he had chest pain radiating down into his left arm that was accompanied by tingling sensations. Often, he has had difficulty breathing and shortness of breath. Any elongated or increased exertion resulted in increased pain in his chest and heart along with dyspnea, mild light-headedness, nausea, and diaphoresis. There was no past data indicating correlation to cardiovascular diseases or heartburn/chest pain. Although, past doctor visits had encouraged him to perform better on his exercise lifestyle habits to prevent heart problems but did not follow up. Also, he had a past history of depression and anxiety coupled with prescribed medications but he has not been taking these recently (this could cause him to go through withdraw and possibly abuse other …show more content…
It makes sense that our patient had shortness of breath and heart strain/chest pain which are some of the consequences of meth use. The reason for these symptoms is because meth is a powerful stimulant that can will speed up the heart while constricting blood vessels. The constriction of our patient’s arteries and veins resulted in intolerable chest pain and pressure. Vital signs such as temperature, pulse rate, blood pressure, and respiration rate were collected with the lab data. As for our patient, his heart rate and blood pressure where higher than what a common 40 yr. old middle-aged man would have. These effects were apparent in the patient at the beginning of the case before we tested for any drugs. It’s common for these vital signs to show up in people who have poor eating habits too but our patient was relatively in good health besides his absence of physical activity, and
To ensure the privacy of our patient: his name is disclosed to the public
Initial Impressions The middle- aged yr. old patient was experiencing moderate discomfort and substernal chest pressure. With this he had chest pain radiating down into his left arm that was accompanied by tingling sensations. Often, he has had difficulty breathing and shortness of breath. Any elongated or increased exertion resulted in increased pain in his chest and heart along with dyspnea, mild light-headedness, nausea, and diaphoresis. There was no past data indicating correlation to cardiovascular diseases or heartburn/chest pain. Although, past doctor visits had encouraged him to perform better on his exercise lifestyle habits to prevent heart problems but did not follow up. Also, he had a past history of depression and anxiety coupled with prescribed medications but he has not been taking these recently (this could cause him to go through withdraw and possibly abuse other …show more content…
It makes sense that our patient had shortness of breath and heart strain/chest pain which are some of the consequences of meth use. The reason for these symptoms is because meth is a powerful stimulant that can will speed up the heart while constricting blood vessels. The constriction of our patient’s arteries and veins resulted in intolerable chest pain and pressure. Vital signs such as temperature, pulse rate, blood pressure, and respiration rate were collected with the lab data. As for our patient, his heart rate and blood pressure where higher than what a common 40 yr. old middle-aged man would have. These effects were apparent in the patient at the beginning of the case before we tested for any drugs. It’s common for these vital signs to show up in people who have poor eating habits too but our patient was relatively in good health besides his absence of physical activity, and