Medical Case Study: Partial Hysterectomy

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Notified by the patient. Two patient verifier used to confirm name and DOB. Patient was recently discharge from the hospital due to partial hysterectomy; therefore a f/u call was perform. Patient states that she is doing okay and her pain is control with prescribed. She denies any vaginal bleeding and the patient states her incision site is healing well and no signs of infection is noted. Encourage patient to continue to follow her discharge instruction and to f/u with her PCM as needed.. Patient states that she has already f/u with her PCM. Instructed the patient if she has a fever greater 100.4, SOB, uncontrollable pain, redness, warmth an swelling to her incision site or vaginal bleeding with moderate clots to report to ER. Provide the

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