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    Name: Sophia Gabbiadini DOB: November 20th, 1992 Age: 23 Occupation: Student/ grocery clerk Chief complain: Abdominal Pain, Muscle weakness, Dizziness History of present illness: This is a 23year-old Asian female previously healthy who went out for a party two nights ago. Sophia has been complaining of stomach pain snice after. Most people in the party apparently had problems afterwards with regard to their abdomen. She awoke up this morning with the pain worsen in her abdomen. Her pain continued on the right lower abdomen and apparently now has move to the whole stomach. She states she is in significant pain. She had some nausea and one incident of vomiting earlier this morning. She states it was dark/brownish in color and mostly watery.…

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    Children's Abdominal Pain

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    Abdominal pain can be caused by many things. The causes may also change as your child gets older. Usually, abdominal pain is not serious and gets better with no treatment or by being treated at home. However, sometimes abdominal pain is serious. Your child’s health care provider will do a medical history and a physical exam to try to determine the cause of your child’s abdominal pain. HOME CARE INSTRUCTIONS • Give over-the-counter and prescription medicines only as told by your child’s health…

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    Diagnosing Abdominal Pain

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    Abdominal pain is the most frequent reason patients seek hospital admissions, but diagnosis can be a bit challenging due to different associating conditions. The initial goal in diagnosing abdominal pain is to determine if the pain is from a benign entities or from a life threatening condition. The initial step in diagnosing abdominal pain is identifying the location of the patient’s pain which helps limit the differential diagnosis to a conditions that cause pain in a specific abdominal…

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    Abdominal Pain

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    Therefore, it is important to understand how to treat certain injuries because you will be the first responder on the scene. You’re main priority should always be your safety, because you can’t help the victim if you become the victim. Some medical emergencies that you can be the primary officer range from assisting in child birth, heat and cold injuries, patients who complain about abdominal pain, poisoning issues, and patient who may have a diabetes crisis. Child birth is a beautiful…

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    Abdominal Pain Case Study

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    intestine. Additionally, some abdominal organs are contained within the pelvis: the bladder, caecum, appendix, sigmoid colon, rectum and tema le reproductive organs. When assessing a patient with abdominal pain, it is essential that the nurse understands abdominal anatomy and knows the position of the abdominal organs, Duringclinical exammation the abdomen is often divided into four quadrants: right upper quadrant, left upper quadrant, right lower quadrant and left lower quadrant (Higure 1).…

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    Some regionalized abdominal pain. No suprapubic tenderness. Urine dip in office reveals 2+ bacteria, +nitrites, neg blood, glucose, ketones. Perineal area slightly excoriated. What would your treatment plan be for this patient? What would you prescribe? Allie presents with symptoms of urinary tract infection. Her urinalysis was positive for leukocytes and nitrates. Physical assessment revealed frequency and burning upon urination, nocturnal incontinence, vomited x 1, some…

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    variation in clinical practice. General principles that guide therapy in patients with PCNSL include the following: both radiation and selected chemotherapeutic agents, surgery (mainly a diagnostic tool), and glucocorticoid medications. When using MTX, it is usually given at sufficiently high doses to penetrate the CNS. MTX is the most active single agent against PCNSL identified to date (Batchelor, 2016). Nursing Management: I would monitor the patient’s vital signs, looking for any…

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    Essay On Strep Throat

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    pharyngitis, which is more commonly known as strep throat, is a common disease that effects people all the time. Bacteria, viruses, mycoplasmas, fungi, and parasites cause strep throat. Streptococcus bacteria may live in your throat or nose without causing any symptoms. In the winter most people actually have this bacteria in their nose or mouth and be healthy. These people are carries who do not have any symptoms nor spread the bacteria to other people. If these people become stressed or their…

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    Endometriosis is a condition where the endometrial tissue outside the uterus causes pelvic pain and the tissue that lines the uterus grows outside of it. Females are associated with this conditioned because of the inner lining of the uterus is being affected. “Endometriosis is mostly common with women in their 30’s and 40’s; it affects about 5 million American women”, claimed the Women’s Health, U.S Department of Health and Human Services. It can be theorized that endometriosis is a genetic…

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    The drugs used are fibre supplements as some people struggle to find sources with the efficient amount of fibre in them. Laxatives help with individuals suffering from constipation as a symptom to the syndrome. Anti-depressants are used to subside the depression and handle stress better as some individuals who have IBS find it difficult to cope with depression and stress. Anti-spasmodics are frequently prescribed to an individual with a severe case of IBS. This medication reduces the spasming in…

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