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Exploratory Laparotomy Case Study

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The patient in discussion is an eighty five year old female who had undergone exploratory laparotomy. This author first encountered the patient during post-operative day five. On this day, the patient was progressing well; tolerating diet, ambulating hallways, vitals stable, abdominal incision approximated, and pain controlled. Patient was looking forward to being discharged back home in a few days. After returning to the unit after a few days off, I cared for the same patient on post-operative day 8. Upon assessing, the patient findings included; patient needed oxygen to ambulate to the bathroom and appeared very short of breath, low urine output, lungs with crackles throughout, low-grade temperature, brown drainage from abdominal incision

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