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Saunders Medical Center OR: Preceptor Day Nine This is my ninth clinical shift with my preceptor at Saunders Medical Center in Wahoo, NE, and it was on May 15, 2018 (Wednesday). Today I had the chance to work back in the OR. I had the choice to stay after my shift to place an IV in a treatment room patient, so I did as well. My duties were to place IV’s, gather report, preoperative care, a little bit of postoperative care, and helping clean up the OR after surgery. The patient census included:

Cryptosporidiosis is one of the most known gastrointestinal illness caused by the genus of Cryptosporidium. Cryptosporidiosis, according to the CDC, has become one of the most common causes of waterborne diseases in the United States, with outbreaks increasing annually. An outbreak of Cryptosporidiosis, in Milwaukee in 1993 affected around 400,000 people and was traced to the city 's water supply (NFID, 2008). The most common symptom associated with this disease is Diarrhea. Pathophysiology Cryptosporidiosis

Case Study A 22 year old female has been brought to the emergency room after fainting at home with complaints of flu-like symptoms for the last eight days (GCU, 2010). She has reported vomiting several times a day and having difficulty keeping food or liquids down. She states she has been “taking more than recommended dose of antacids to help with nausea symptoms”. She has become dehydrated, so an IV has been placed and fluids have been started. She also has had an arterial blood gas (ABG) drawn

Case Study 43 Choledocholithiasis Scenario T.B. is a 65-year-old retiree who is admitted to your unit from the emergency department (ED). On arrival you note that he is trembling and nearly doubled over with severe abdominal pain. T.B. indicates that he has severe pain in the right upper quadrant (RUQ) of his abdomen that radiates through to his mid-back as a deep, sharp boring pain. He is more comfortable walking or sitting bent forward rather than lying flat in bed. He admits to having had several

Introduction Although many individuals are uncertain about the increasing statistics associated with obesity, more than seventy percent of men and virtually sixty-two percent of women within the United States adult population are overweight or obese (Wilmore, Costill, & Kenney). Obesity refers to the condition of having an excessive amount of body fat. If an individual’s amount of body fat becomes too excessive, he/she is at a much greater risk of developing life-altering diseases such as heart

Overall complication rates: The overall complication rates of ERCP in published trails vary from 4% to 15.9% with procedure-related mortality ranging from 0% to 1%. (Cheng et al., 2006). The incidence of major complications is ranging from 4% to 5%. Comparison of complication rates a mong trials can be difficult because of heterogeneity in study design and among study populations. Even in the more recent rails, which attempt to use consensus definitions of complications, there is significant variability

Med-Surg Practice Test B Remediation Kirsten Lute Cancer Treatment Options: Safety Precautions for a Client who has a Sealed Radiation Implant (Therapeutic Procedure, RM AMS RN 9.0 Chp 92) Inform client of the need to remain in an indicated position to prevent dislodgment of the radiation implant. Instruct client to call the nurse for assistance with elimination. Instruct client and family about radiation precautions needed in the health care and home environments. Infection Control: Precautions

BIOL 376 Samuel McCaffrey 43671462 (Word Count=1650) Liraglutide is a new drug for weight management presently in clinical trial. Explain the proposed mechanism of the drug and briefly report the outcome of the clinical trials. Introduction Liraglutide is a glucagon-like peptide-1 receptor agonist (GLP-1), which is synonymous with the naturally occurring human peptide GLP-1 produced in the colon and solitary tract of the brain (Baggio and Drucker, 2007). The drug was developed recently for weight

CHEST PAIN SECONDRY TO MYOCARDIAL INFRACTION Chest pain Chest cavity is a space in the body that occurs at the top of the abdominopelvic or peritoneal cavity and between the neck and epigastric region, where most organs of various systems including some fetal parts occur. Anatomically it consists of many sub small cavities such as pleural cavity (area between the double folded membrane surrounding each lung) and mediastenum (space between but outside the two lungs) where the heart locates. Chest

Table (3): Role of confirm US with operative in acute abdomen. Item Prove Disprove p-value Inflammation ”n=88” 70(79.54%) 18(20.45%) P<0.001** Abscess ”n=22” 19(86.36%) 3(13.63%) P<0.000*** Perforation ”n=30” 24(80.0%) 6(20.0%) P<0.000*** Intestinal obstruction ”n=60” 49(81.67%) 11(18.33%) P<0.000*** Total ”n=200” 162(81.0%) 38(19.0%) P<0.000*** The correlation of US findings with surgical findings in this study showed high US diagnostic performance markers in most of the cases of non traumatic