Chronic kidney disease

For my OR observation on February 22, 2018, I will follow the patient undergoing transurethral resection of prostate. Transurethral resection of the prostate is a surgery used to treat urinary problem due to enlarged prostate. This procedure is often done to relieve symptoms caused by an enlarged prostate which is often related to benign prostate hyperplasia (BPH). BPH is benign (noncancerous), it is often related to aging. However, it can lead to urinary problem if not treated. The prostate…

Understanding Urinary Stones in Dogs And Cats? The primary function of urine is to eliminate waste from the body and toxic products that have accumulated in the blood. It helps to ensure the balance of the body by regulating the quantities of water and minerals removed. What is a urinary calculus? The urinary stones also called urolithiasis are crystal aggregates compounds preferentially localized in the bladder. These crystals, formed when the urine is saturated with minerals, can be an…

pressure and the size of the membranous pores. Solutes such as blood cells and proteins are too large to pass through so capillaries retain them. An example of filtration in the body is renal filtration, a process in which the blood is filtered in the kidney so that substances that are essential can be retained and reabsorbed by the body( biology online). The objectives of this experiment are as followed: 1. To understand that filtration is a passive process depending on a pressure gradient.…

Literature Evaluation A 2002 estimate by the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) found that urinary tract infections were the most common health care-associated infections (HAI’s). These infections account for >30% of HAI’s (CDC, 2009). The CDC further estimated the number of attributable mortalities at >13,000. CAUTI rates have increased by three percent between 2009 to 2012, to six percent between 2009-2013 (CDC, 2009). While urinary catheter may be a necessary…

and more concentration. Less ADH results in less concentration of urine and more volume. Micturition, meaning urination. Once urine is produces as stated above it then leaves the kidney through the ureter. The ureter connects to the bladder. The ureter has a valve that will not allow urine to backflow into the kidney. The urine flows into the urethra. There is an internal urethral sphincter of smooth muscle…

please with their kidney, lung, intestine, liver, blood or bone marrow. All of these can be removed from a living body without death occurring. “It is believed that a kidney here in the United States could go anywhere from $15,000 to $25,000.” (7) For some that can be a year’s income. Is that worth it? Studies have shown that people are willing to buy an organ just to get off of the transplant list. In the United States alone around 101,000 of them are on the list for a kidney. Many of those…

from kidney disease that has no known cure leaving patients to suffer the only treatment; costly dialysis for years and years, in which they will have to endure, until a kidney transplant becomes available. Cadaverous kidney transplants are usually from the old and the sick and do not last nearly as long as a live kidney donation. Accidents are another major source for a live donation. Most countries have laws forbidding organ sales, which make the odds of getting a healthy, living kidney, are…

According to Shafer, “Over the last ten years, more than 65,000 transplant candidates in the United States were removed from the waiting list because they died” (Shafer). The cause of this is the outnumbered need for organs versus the vast shortage of organs available. This may be because in 1984, the U.S. Congress enacted the National Organ Transplant Act. This was mainly to address the ethical issues revolving around the shortage of organs. This law, although regulating the donation of organs,…

Non-Emergency Patient Transport (NEPT) evolved from an identified need in the Victorian health care system in the late 1990’s when there was a major reform of the (then) Metropolitan Ambulance Service. The main reason for the reform was that many patients were being delayed in their appointments, as ambulances were being redirected to emergency cases. During the early years of the new century, many lobbied for change, as the service was unregulated. In October 2003 the State Parliament passed…

Monday, November 9th: Today I was at Moses Cone hospital in both a nurse leader and students nurse role. This clinical day was our 12-hour shift day. I was co-leader with Samantha, and we shared a case where a patient was admitted for a spinal injury with a host of other previous medical issues, including confusion. It was today in my role as student leader that I felt the most comfortable fulfilling my duties. Sam and I worked a long time the day before making sure that the patient…