Chronic Respiratory Failure
Shelby Lynch
Date of Care: 03/19/2013
Chamberlain College of Nursing
NR 340: Critical Care
|Assessment |Medical/Nursing Diagnoses |Treatment |
|Brief review of the patient |Medical Diagnoses: |Therapeutic Modalities |
|Age: 86 years old |Admitting Diagnosis: |-Continuous vital…show more content… These are common |-EKG monitoring- to monitor the electrical activity of the heart and dysrhythmias. |
|right-sided CVA with left hemiparesis. He is |manifestations of respiratory failure. |-Colostomy: to divert incontinent stools away from decubitus ulcer. |
|nonverbal and is able to move only his right arm| |-Wound VAC set at 125 mm Hg: to help wound healing by delivering negative pressure at the wound site|
|and leg. |Febrile illness- is a type of illness characterized by a |to draw wound edges together, remove infectious materials and actively promote granulation. |
|Course of current hospitalization: |sudden onset of fever, which is an increase in internal |Routine Care |
|The patient arrived at M Hospital 3/18/2013 with|body temperature to levels above normal. Is usually caused |-ET feeding diet: due to inability to consume food by mouth as a result of inability to swallow |
|a chief complaint (from family) of worsening of |by the presence of a bacterial or viral infection. Febrile |secondary to CVA |
|condition and respiratory difficulty. The |illness can be an indicator