clue you in. LTACH stands for long-term acute care hospital‚ and it’s a truly unique combination of hospital and nursing home. The definition of LTACH according to a white paper from Hospital Medicine is as follows: “A Long-Term Acute Care Hospital (LTACH) is an acute care hospital that specializes in the treatment
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SUMMARY Chronic renal failure (CRF) is the progressive loss of kidney function. The kidneys attempt to compensate for renal damage by hyperfiltration (excessive straining of the blood) within the remaining functional nephrons (filtering units that consist of a glomerulus and corresponding tubule). The cause for CRF sometimes can be determined by a detailed medical history‚ a comprehensive physical examination‚ and laboratory studies. CRF are common in patients who have multiple myeloma ( cancer
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Nursing Care Study This assignment is a case study of a patient who was admitted to a respiratory ward with acute exacerbation of asthma. This assignment will discuss nursing an adult patient with asthma‚ also it will aim to critically assess‚ plan‚ implement and evaluate the patients nursing needs using the Roper‚ Logan and Tierney nursing model (1980). This case study will focus on the maintaining a safe environment. It is worth noting that the activities of daily living are interlinked e
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admitted to the unit d. A patient who has just received morphine sulfate for postoperative pain C Rationale: Hypoxemia and hypoxemic respiratory failure are caused by disorders that interfere with the transfer of oxygen into the blood‚ such as pneumonia. The other listed disorders are more likely to cause problems with hypercapnia because of ventilatory failure. Cognitive Level: Application Text Reference: pp. 1799-1800 Nursing Process: Assessment NCLEX: Physiological
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Schurholt‚ Knuppertz‚ and Seitz (2014)‚ Acute Stress Disorder “is a trauma- and stress-related disorder following a traumatic event” (pg. 1 ). “The diagnostic criteria are intrusive re-experiencing of the trauma‚ autonomic reactivity in response to and avoidance of trauma-related cues‚ dissociation‚ mood deterioration‚ and elevated arousal that last for a minimum of 3 days and at the longest 1 month after the trauma” (Cwik et al‚ 2014‚ pg. 1). According to the case study‚ Suzy was directly exposed to a sexual
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tissue death if not treated quickly enough‚ since an acute ischemic stroke can build up in a matter of hours. «9» Alteplase for ischemic stroke treatment was concidered‚ but the ECG showed abnormalities. The ECG of this patient was placed as standard and the condition dextrocardia was not known beforehand. Another ECG was done that showed similar values. After MRI‚ the patient was diagnosed with dextrocardia situs inversus totalis. In patients with acute ischemic stroke it is essential for quick treatment
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1. Hemostasis Hemostasis is the first stage of acute wound healing. It is characterized by the formation of a primary plug to prevent any further blood loss and exposure to environmental pathogens. Once the tissue has been injured‚ the vascular and lymphatic vessels that are disrupted become constricted. The reparative coagulum is initiated as platelets adhere to the interior surfaces of the vessels as well as to a newly forming matrix of fibrin that together become the cruor of the thrombus‚ thus
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Gracie was diagnosed with acute lymphoblastic leukemia at the age of five. They first started to think that something was wrong when at Gracie’s birthday party she got a fever of 102‚ they took her to the doctor and they told her that she had mono. They transferred Gracie to St
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Stage 1 – Understanding There are 42 acute care hospitals in the state of Colorado. The complication rate for specific procedures varies greatly from hospital to hospital. Sepsis mortality and morbidity rates also range from low of about 8% to high of just over 39%. No one hospital provides the best care for all conditions and procedures. Several problems may account for these discrepancies: • Small rural hospitals may have limited staff that is not certified in all specialties. • Smaller hospitals
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Acute data analysis Due to the insignificant difference in the buffered and unbuffered D. magna acute studies‚ my hypothesis of the unbuffered concentration having a lower LC50 concentration was not supported. However‚ the indifference might suggest that the toxicity comes from the structure of the compound and not the fact that it is acidic. The pH in the buffered 625 mg/L was essentially neutral and yet it had caused the same mortality of its unbuffered counterpart. This information rejects the
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