Abdomen

“I have decided to stick with love. Hate is too great a burden to bear” - Martin Luther King Jr. People today remember Martin Luther King Jr as a man who helped African Americans gain civil and economic equality. To me King was important because he never gave up, he was arrested 29 times, imprisoned for 11 days and even stabbed. King went through all of this and never feared what could happen to him nor he gave up, he gave his life just so others could have an easier life. In my school and me…

common and key sign of intussusceptions in infants is the “currant jelly” stool. Currant jelly stool is a mixture of blood and mucus. Other symptoms include vomiting, lethargy diarrhea, fever, constipation. There may be a palpable lump in the infant abdomen. (Miller and Shrier,…

“semi-fowlers and knees up” (Huether & McCrance, 2017). This would also include attempting to reduce any activity that induced pain such as “coughing or ambulation” (Huether & McCrance, 2017). They might also give the patient an ice pack to place on the abdomen to relieve some of the pain. The nurse might also administer any pain medications that can be given before the patient’s procedure however, it is important that no cathartics are administered at this time because it has the potential to…

Use of Whipple Pancreaticoduodenectomy in a 54-Year-Old Male with Pancreatic Cancer Alex McColloster UNTHSC TEXAS COLLEGE OF OSTEOPATHIC MEDICINE CASE REPORT SURGERY CORE CLINICAL CLERKSHIP Introduction Pancreatic cancer remains a highly lethal malignancy due to its clinically silent nature. Patients most often present with jaundice due to compression of the common bile duct, pain that develops insidiously and weight loss. Treatment is accomplished surgically;…

In case study five, Fred is a healthy 44-year-old male, who after working outside in the heat started to complain of excruciating back, stomach, and groin pain. Further symptoms included diaphoresis, nausea and vomiting along with intermittent relief from the pain. Fred’s wife took him to the hospital in which an abdominal radiograph which revealed a right renal calculus in the ureter (urolithiasis). Renal Calculi formation Renal calculi are the most common form of upper urinary tract…

Tochukwu Nwigwe East Los Angeles College Philosophy 19 Section 5407 Contemporary Issues in Bioethics Summer 2015 Jehovah Witness Belief and Patient Autonomy Last month I had a severe pain on the right left side of my abdomen that lasted for days because I had presumed that the pain will go away. The failure of my presumption prompted me to rush to Kaiser urgent care to seek medical opinion and verification of what was wrong with me. Based on my primary physician diagnosis, I was advised to go…

The mural on the side of Roosevelt Community Church depicts a man with his arms spread wide like an eagle. This mural is beautiful but very confusing. It is a man without skin whose arms are spread wide, since there is no skin passerby’s can see are muscles bones and tendons. When I first saw the mural I thought to myself, “what the heck could this possibly stand for?” I sat there staring at the mural and after about ten to fifteen minutes I still just sat there dumbfounded as to what the mural…

I think it is safe to say that if you are alone in the Canadian wilderness in an unknown situation it is no one’s ideal situation. But in the book Hatchet written by Gary Paulsen, that is what happens to 13 year old Brian Robeson when he is going to Canada to visit his dad. But when the plane he is flying in crashes because of the pilots sudden heart attack, He is stranded in the Canadian wilderness where Brian is isolated and stranded and has nothing but his hatchet and himself to try to…

multiple serious injuries. The injuries included a broken spinal column, broken collarbone, broken ribs, broken pelvis, eleven fractures in her right leg, crushed right foot, and a dislocated shoulder. Furthermore an iron handrail struck through her abdomen and her uterus which made her unable to reproduce. Imagine the pain of all of these injuries at once, and yet she was able to persevere through it all. She spent three full months recovering in a body cast and eventually even regained the…

injury that involves many important organs like the heart, lungs, head, and colon. The worst part is when there is nobody to help them. It is called Abdominal Aortic Aneurysm. The largest artery tears opens, then all the blood in the body goes to the abdomen. Trauma surgery has changed people’s lives. For many people becoming a trauma surgeon is a life changing job. It changes people to…