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Harry's Recovery Case Study

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When I was in the surgery department, a 9 year old Portuguese water dog named Harry was scheduled for an operation. He had a left anal sac mass which was suspected to be an anal sac adenocarcinoma with regional mastitis to the sublumbar lymph nodes. He had a left anal sacculectomy and sublumbar lymph node extirpation performed. Harry recovered well from the surgery and was able to continue his recovery at home. The medications he was sent home with included 500mg and 250mg capsules of Cephalexin and 1 capsule of both the 500mg and 250mg tablets had to be given orally 3 times a day for 7 days. The Cephalexin is an antibiotic used to treat and prevent bacterial infections. Along with this was 50mg tablets of Tramadol and 1 ½ tablets had to be given orally twice a day for 10 days as needed for pain. …show more content…

For the following 2 weeks harry had his activity restricted at home so the incisions could heal properly. While I was in the oncology department, Harry came in as a patient about two or three weeks after his surgery to start chemotherapy. Harry’s abdominal incision and perianal incision were healing well and his stat CBC that I collected the blood for showed no significant findings so Dr. Brodsky gave permission for Dee to start the chemotherapy treatment of 5mg Mitoxantrone intravenously. Harry was sent home with 136 mg Baytril tablets which is an antibiotic and he had to take 2 tablets orally once a day for the next 10 days. Harry was then scheduled for his next appointment in 3 weeks for his next chemotherapy session. Dr. Brodsky said that Harry’s survival time with chemotherapy can increase to 2 to 3 years on

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