DOI: 09/09/2015. Patient is a 41-year-old female receiving clerk who felt a pop in her left wrist while picking up boards. Patient is diagnosed with left scapholunate ligament tear and left wrist pain. She is status post left wrist diagnostic arthroscopy with partial synovectomy and left scapholunate ligament repair on 10/20/2015 and removal of hardware on 03/24/16. Per the PT daily note dated 05/25/16, the patient has attended 14 visits for the left wrists since 03/28/16. Based on the…
repeated pregnancy loss after the 10th week of gestation (Mattson Porth, 2015). Treatment for this disorder includes removing other factors that can increase risk of clotting, like smoking and oral birth control use. Long term treatment might include aspirin or anticoagulant therapy to prevent further acute clotting episodes. In acute clotting events treatment consists of heparin, warfin, and possible immune suppression if it is a refractory…
Jessica, Great job, with evaluating case study number 1. The first question regarding any additional questions for Rick? You may want to consider asking, if Rick has any new exposures with an animal or pet? Along with do you have any known allergies? Allergies can attribute to exacerbations. Your asthma treatment plan focusing on pharmacological and non-pharmacologic focus intuitively patient centered as well as supporting patient autonomy. Excellent job! In your post, you mention keeping an…
has many uses. It is most commonly used to increase urine production and flush the kidneys. It can, also, be used to decrease swelling and pressure inside the eye or around the brain. Another use is the elimination of toxic substances, such as aspirin, barbituates, bromides, and carbon monoxide from the body. First, mannitol can perform all of these functions because it is a diuretic. This means that the addition of it to the blood causes the blood to become a hypertonic solution and…
single type of anemic conditions. Therefore these conditions are grouped in three general causes. For example, anemia can occur from blood loss. Blood loss can occur from menstruation in females, the use of anti-inflammatory drugs such as ibuprofen or aspirin, and gastrointestinal conditions which include ulcers, gastritis, ulcers, etc. Anemia can also be caused by a faulty production of red blood cells. It can also be caused by the destruction of red blood cells which can happen from exposure…
Heart Disease in Women and their Unique Symptoms of a Heart Attack Introduction: Heart attacks are a very serious condition of the human body that require immediate attention. Heart attacks are known in the medical community as myocardial infarctions: myo- means muscle, cardio- means heart, -al means pertaining to; infarct means death of tissue (med term book). The parts come together as: tissue death pertaining to heart muscle (med term book). Each year, around one and half million cases of…
In either type, episodes of bronchospasm can be triggered by diverse nonimmune mechanisms, including respiratory tract infections, exercise, ingestion of aspirin, emotional upset, and exposure to bronchial irritants such as cigarette smoke. Asthma can also be classified according to the agents that trigger an attack. These include seasonal, exercise-induced, drug-induced, and occupational asthma. The common…
treatment if symptoms do not occur. If you feel symptoms like pain, fever, throat pain and pain in the stomach area then pharmacy medications like paracetamol or ibuprofen can help with your symptoms, if you are under sixteen years of age you should take Aspirin. Cytomegalovirus can also be passed on from a mother to her child. Babies can be infected at birth or before or after, there are antiviral medications available to treat babies with (CMV). Spread Cytomegalovirus is a virus that affects…
A.D Williams “When I look into the eyes of an animal I do not see an animal. I see a living being. I see a friend. I see a soul. “ In our lives animals are the only thing that are there for us they don't judge us there always there when we have our down days and they bring joy . Its really wrong and mean that people torture them and experiments on them people only see them as animals , but they're not they treat us really special so , we should treat them like something special to. Animals are…
Susanna Kaysen in Girl, Interrupted, John Nash in A Beautiful Mind, and my grandmother Ida Starobin, all suffer from a different form of a mental disorder. Susanna Kaysen, at the time, is an eighteen year old with borderline personality disorder who is sent to a mental hospital in the 1960’s. John Nash is a brilliant mathematician who suffered from delusions and schizophrenia. His failure to see the truth almost cost him his family along with his job. My grandmother never received any help…