Osteomyelitis

Pressure ulcers have become more prevalent among patients in any health care setting. The development of pressure ulcers have many factors that contribute to the development which makes it difficult to know what exactly caused the pressure ulcer to occur. With many factors that can be involved the treatment process can take some time to see what will work for each patient as well as the stage the pressure ulcer is in. The further developed a pressure ulcer the longer it takes to heal, the…

Geriatric Assignment: Patient O.G The patient is a seventy-year-old female of Hispanic origin. O.G consent is available through appendices A. She is currently widowed. Husband died of a gunshot wound in 2000. The patient was born in Guatemala and came to the United States around the age of thirty. Her main language is Spanish but does understand and speaks English. For education the patient stopped going to school at age 8 during second grade, when she was taken out of school to help her mother…

actually served in the war as he was classified by the draft board as 4-F, otherwise known as physically unfit or unable to perform (Honig p. 72). Mantle was willing and claimed he felt it was his duty to serve, but a condition known as chronic osteomyelitis, or inflammation of the bone in his left leg, left him physically unfit in the eyes of the draft board (Honig p. 72). Regardless of diagnosis, the classification was met by the public with scorn and disbelief (Hirsch p. 144). The question…

Exploring 30-day children?s readmission rate in a general hospital. K van Driel1*, GS de Wolf2, R. van Schaik3 1 Division woman and child, Diakonessenhuis Utrecht, the Netherlands 2Department of clinical methods and Public Health, Academic Medical Center, University of Amsterdam, Amsterdam, the Netherlands 3Division woman and child, Diakonessenhuis Utrecht, the Netherlands * Corresponding author: K van Driel, Division Woman and Child Diakonessenhuis…