Hypotension

SHOCK Salve Aguilar West Coast University Pathophysiology Dr. Isabelle Tardif July 17, 2015 Abstract The case identifies the type of shock that CC encountered right after his traumatic accident. He was experiencing hypovolemic shock as evidenced by low blood pressure and increased heart rate. To increase his cardiac output, fluid therapy was initiated. However, due to CC’s multiple abrasions sustained from the accident, and invasive lines attached to him, it placed him at risk for…

symptoms of mild acute mountain sickness which includes light-headedness, increased heart rate and shortness of breath (MedlinePlus, 2013). Her anemia is so severe she is experiencing life threating symptoms of increase heat rate and respirations, hypotension, shortness of breath. After arriving at the hospital, her subjective data and laboratory values of decrease hemoglobin and hematocrit, normal reticulocytes, and low mean corpuscular hemoglobin concentration (MCHC) and mean corpuscular…

and biliary colic. other causes may include trauma from recent surgery and hyperlipidemia. Depending on the severity of pancreatitis, the physical examination may reveal abdominal tenderness, muscle guarding and distention, fever, tachycardia and hypotension (Gardner, 2015). The mechanism by which pancreatitis occurs is not clearly understood. However, it is believed to be related to the auto-digestion of the pancreas. Trypsinogen which is an…

high-dose glucocorticoid therapy” or other underlying causes like a pituitary tumor(Hunt 2012). In Addison Disease, the lack of cortisol, aldosterone, and other adrenal hormones, causes patients to have personality changes, hyperpigmentation, hypotension,diarrhea, pain, muscle weakness,…

Rhabdomyolysis is a severe syndrome caused by a direct or indirect skeletal muscle injury. The damage sustained results in the muscle fibres releasing myoglobin, creatine kinase, potassium and other proteins and ions into the bloodstream [1]. The breakdown products produced by myoglobin can results in kidney damage and the high levels of blood potassium can result in cardiac arrest. Severe muscle trauma can also cause damage and leakage of blood vessels, resulting in an increased level of…

1.1. BACKGROUND Birthing is the action or a process whereby a pregnant woman brings a newborn into the world. This is the crucial time a woman needs support and encouragement. When the laboring woman is attended by a skilled and competent health care provider particularly the midwife this builds woman 's confidence. The midwife monitors a foetal condition, labour progress, and maternal condition. If labour progress is good, the maternal condition is fine and foetal condition is okay this…

Seventy-two years old woman initial GC. She used to work as a transporter. She is African American woman who has four kids and twenty-six grandkids. Her husband passed away a few years ago, and she still remembers when they used to play with their grandkids but now she doesn’t walk anymore because she had heart failure, and muscle weakness. She uses a wheelchair to get around and her grandkids come to visit her frequently at the nursing home. GC told me that her older daughter is an English…

Homeostasis is a key factor in helping the body to maintain optimum conditions for life. It aids in keeping a steady environment inside the body when the external environment is constantly changing. ( Peate, I. and Nair, M. 2011) Humans need to maintain a near constant environment internally to be able to function and to survive. There are various control systems at work in the process of homeostasis, such as negative feedback and the receptor, controller and effector loop. The receptor,…

Like every drug, atropine has side effects. Common side effects that atropine causes are dry mouth, blurred vison, urinary retention, tachycardia, constipation, hyper/hypotension, convulsions, fatigue, headaches and increased intraocular pressure. For emergency uses, the doses needed to treat an adult patient with symptomatic bradycardia would be 0.5-1.0 mg IV, 2 mg ET. It may be repeated every 3-5 mins up to 3.0 mg. The…

state the kidneys are unable to maintain a glomerular filtration rate (GFR) despite a compensatory response leading to a decreased filtration rate and pressure (McCance & Huether, 2014). Examples of prerenal injury are renal artery thrombosis or hypotension secondary to hypovolemia caused by dehydration or hemorrhage in addition to shock either septic or cardiogenic (McCance &Huether, 2014). There the possibility…