Oxygen Therapy Case Study

In an emergency situation, why is a drug most commonly delivered via injection versus an oral route?

Cari’s po2 is 54 mm Hg so therefore her lungs were working as if she was doing intense exercise although she wasn’t. Decreased oxygen saturation and PO2, decrease the efficiency of gas exchange between the arterial blood and tissues of the body.

*Intravenous (IV) injection administration – The medicine is administered directly into the veins. Medicines are rapidly absorbed into the body via this route, which is advantageous when a situation is life threatening.

Until recently it was not uncommon for patients admitted to an acute care facility to have an indwelling catheter anchored for unnecessary reasons. Patients that came in thru the emergency department typically were sent to the units with unnecessary indwelling catheters in place and it was not unusual for a surgery patient to have an indwelling catheter anchored before or during a procedure. Once a patient was admitted and was transported to the units nursing would also anchor indwelling catheters for multiple unnecessary reasons. These Catheters could be

Rectal-Administering drugs into the rectum are then become absorbed into the blood vessels and taken into the body.

It results when one or both of these gas-exchanging functions are inadequate . It is not a disease but a symptom of an underlying pathology affecting lung tissue function, 02 delivery, cardiac output, or the baseline metabolic state. It is a condition that occurs because of one or more diseases involving the lungs or other body systems. Symptoms of this is hypoexia and hypercapnia.

This results in the person having repetitive periods of insufficient ventilation and jeopardized gas exchange. This occurs when the inhibitory input to the brain exceeds excitatory output; or in simpler terms the brain fails to signal the muscles to breathe.

Intramuscular - An injection of drugs into the muscle which allows a deposit of drugs to become established that will be released gradually

After surgery, Mr. Baker is taken to a room on the medical-surgical floor. He has an IV infusing at 125 ml/hr, a PCA pump, and a nasogastric tube connected to low suction. He is receiving oxygen through a nasal cannula.

* COPD: Chronic obstructive lung disease decreases the lungs ability to exchange carbon dioxide for oxygen. As the disease progress the patient has to work harder and harder to breathe often feeling as if they are suffocating. These disease are often link to a lifetime of smoking but be due to environmental factors.

As a clinical facilitator, I provide learning opportunities to staff and nursing students at St Vincent’s Private Hospital Brisbane (SVPHB). Not long after I joined St Vincent’s, I encountered a patient who was receiving high flow oxygen (7 litres/min) via high flow nasal prongs without any humidification device running with it. The scene surprised me. Supplemental oxygen is

Oxygen treatment is recommended for individuals who can 't get enough oxygen all alone. This is regularly as a result of a lung condition that keeps the lungs from retaining oxygen, including:

G, INJECTION-This is normally administered by a trained practitioner with a needle and a syringe directly into the body or vein.

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An intramuscular injection is an injection given directly into the central area of a specific muscle. In this