Bowel obstruction

In most tropical countries with long coastlines where coconut palms grow in abundance, coconut water has always been used as a refreshing drink and a health enhancer. The people of the Pacific Islands respect the coconut and use all of its parts for food and medicine. It is only recently that this humble natural beverage has started receiving the attention it clearly deserves in North America. If you are not familiar with this drink, coconut water is the nearly colorless liquid contained within…

Crohn’s Disease (CD) has been influencing the lives of more and more people worldwide, and it is a form of inflammatory bowel disease (IBD). More frequent in women, it affects 780,000 Americans (CCFA, 2014). Crohn’s Disease is progressive, chronic, and painful, and it can be located at any point within the gastrointestinal tract, though most frequently within the last part of the small intestine - the ileum -, and/or the colon (Abraham & Cho, 2009). The first documentation of Chron’s Disease…

The condition of Parkinson’s Disease has been known since ancient times, but known as a different name, “shaky palsy.” In 1817, London doctor James Parkinson published a medical essay on the disease which is where the name, “Parkinson’s” originated (“Parkinson’s Disease History,” para. 1). The publication Parkinson wrote established Parkinson’s Disease as an actual medical condition and encouraged others to study the disease (“Parkinson’s Disease History,” para. 2). With Parkinson’s work, French…

Cystic fibrosis is a progressive, genetic disease that causes chronic lung infections and breathing becomes continually hampered as the disease progresses. This disease is “caused by a mutation in the gene cystic fibrosis transmembrane conductance regulator (CFTR)”, which is why the disease is called cystic fibrosis. After doing research, Dorothy H. Andersen of Columbia University, noticed the damage that cystic fibrosis did to the pancreas and lungs, she then gave cystic fibrosis its’ name…

This was my twelfth and final night shift following Meagan at Rady Children’s Hospital. I was expecting the day after Thanksgiving to be really busy. To my surprise, it was the least busy night out of all the shifts I saw while I was at Rady’s. The census was at an all time low of 15. Due to the low census and recent holiday, all the nurses on the floor were calm and giddy. In this particular journal, I will address the theme of forgiveness. Clinical Experiences S.V. is a thirteen-year-old boy…

This essay will focus on a patient that presented to the emergency department with an acute onset of severe pain in the flank region, and then later was admitted for a procedure called “Shockwave lithotripsy (SWL)” ("Surgery for Kidney Stones," para. 4). The aim of this essay is to demonstrate how this client’s diagnosis was determined. I will also include the pathophysiology, client presentation, medical history, clinical examinations and findings, diagnostic tests that were performed, other…

Analyse Heath Information Define Hypertension and arteriosclerosis. How are they often related? hypertension is defined as elevation of the arterial blood pressure above the normal range expected in a particular age group. In other words, it refers to HIGH BLOOD PRESSURE. On the other hand, arteriosclerosis refers to any of several conditions affecting the arteries. The term is often used interchangeably with atherosclerosis, a disease of the arteries caused by deposition of fatty plaques in…

According to Lewis, Dirksen, Heitkemper, Bucher, and Camera (2014), pyelonephritis is defined as inflammation of the renal parenchyma, collecting system, and renal pelvis. Pyelonephritis can be categorized as acute or chronic. Acute pyelonephritis, the more common type, usually results from colonization and infection of the lower urinary tract that if left untreated can ascend through the urethral route and infect the kidneys (Lewis et al., 2014). Chronic pyelonephritis occurs when the kidneys…

Looking at her medication list, her medical history may be rheumatoid arthritis, osteoarthritis, GERD, hypertension, anemia, hypothyroid, and a current infection. Why should you query her on the Bactrim, and would you consider it a routine home medication? Explain your answer. I would question the need for her to be on TMP/SMZ since she has no current infection that she is aware of. Although, she may be on this medication to regulate and prevent endocarditis since she has a history of…

List A: Microbiology of Inflammatory COPD Exacerbation Microbiology Results Indication Sodium Level 142 mmol/L Normal Potassium Level 5.1 mmol/L Normal Chloride Level 101 mmol/L Normal Bicarbonate Level 29 mmol/L Normal Urea Level 7.3 mmol/L High (2.9–7.1 mmol/L) Creatinine 91 umol/L Normal eGFR CKD-EPI 73 mL/min/1.73m^2 Normal Bilirubin Total 10 umol/L Normal Protein Total Level 68 g/L Normal Albumin Level 28 g/L Low (35–55 g/L) ALP 68 U/L Normal GGT 16 U/L Normal ALT 29 U/L Normal AST 22…