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legs. Legs look emaciated. The parents describes his defecation as sporadic and not occurring every day and the left femur is noticeably shorter than the right. Patient is lethargic and suffering from spastic muscle spasms. PAST MEDICAL HISTORY: The patient no previous medical history. Allergies: No known drug allergies. Current Medication: None. Blood type B; Rh+. PHYSICAL EXAMINATION VITAL SIGNS: Blood pressure 65/40, pulse 130, respiration 55, height 20 inches, and weight 7.5 pounds.…

The causes may also change as your child gets older. Usually, abdominal pain is not serious and gets better with no treatment or by being treated at home. However, sometimes abdominal pain is serious. Your child’s health care provider will do a medical history and a physical exam to try to determine the cause of your child’s abdominal pain. HOME CARE INSTRUCTIONS • Give over-the-counter and prescription medicines only as told by your child’s health care provider. Do not give your child a…

It is easy for a person to imagine the painful experience of falling off a bicycle and scraping a knee for the first time. What is more difficult is for him/ her to imagine that pain as constant, multiplied on large scale, and not knowing what causes the pain. Unfortunately, patients with CRPS know this experience as one knows their own name. Complex Regional Pain Syndrome (CRPS), formerly known as Reflex Sympathetic Dystrophy (RSD), is ranked as the most severe form of chronic pain that exists…

Side effects and symptoms of dopamine agonist medications can be presently seen in a person within six weeks of taking the medication (Drugs 2). The drug Levodopa is thought to be the most effective drug for controlling the symptoms of Parkinson’s disease, but Levodopa has not been shown to slow disease progression. Taking this medication is supposed to delay the symptoms of PD, but it could even make it worse. Additionally, the drug has significant abnormal side effects for some patients such…

SUBJECTIVE The patient returns today there was an ICS call on him last night, he still complains of the epigastric pains. He was seen yesterday at which time he stated that he had been having slowly increasing pain over the past five or six days prior. Denied any bloody stools or any black, tarry stools at that time. He is positive HIV he states a week ago. He was started on new medications. I do not really have the name of the medications at this time. I do have the consultant's note…

Before watching the Hospice Organization of America video, “Hospice, Something More”, my initial ideas about hospice was that it is a place where people go to die. A place for people who are deteriorating and were given a limited life expectancy. I initially also thought that hospice was a particular place where terminally ill people go to spend their last days. In addition, I thought that once a person enters hospice, there was no going back. Just to sit back and wait until the final hour.…

Cancer mental side effect Most people usually think that cancer patient suffer from physical effects from cancer but they also suffer from mental stress . “Mental illness leaves a huge legacy not just for the person that's suffering it but those around them” (Anthony). This quote talks about how not only cancer patients grieve and suffer mental illness but also the people that are supporting them suffer. The mental side effects of cancer impact not only patient but also their family and…

Identifying the Problem After working in both Nursing Home and the Acute Care Settings, I personally have noticed the big difference in the care of the Alzheimer’s disease patients and the elderly without AD. Caring for Alzheimer`s disease patients is more challenging for both the caregivers and health care providers. It is as stressful for both the patients and caregivers as they try to maintain their cognitive intact and as caregivers strive to make the patients feel as normal as…

Death with Dignity or Assisted Suicide Physician-assisted suicide, also known as physician aid-in-dying, PAD, or death with dignity is a practice in which physicians can provide terminally ill patients lethal doses of medicine, per their request (Jaret). It has only been used when every other option has been exhausted and the patient has six or less months to live, in which they would be suffering. Both those arguing for and those arguing against physician-assisted suicide believe that life is…

Evidence for the benefits and challenges of the PCMH delivery system: Benefits: The patient-centered medical homes model is growing and those practices have more non-physician clinicians on staff and higher utilization of electronic health records (Finnegan, 2017). This is crucial with the on-going shortage of health care personnel. • PCMH practices had…