Maternity Health nursing Kholud Rajab Yousef is 29 years pregnant woman in her 32 gestational weeks‚ G: 8. P:4 admitted to antenatal wards at 6/12/2011 with complain of dizziness ‚ shortness of breath‚ palpitation and fatigue‚ she also have history of varicosities since 5 years ago‚ which cause acute pain in her legs. The pt. is on regular diet‚ not smoker‚ educational level is high school‚ she is house wife‚ her husband educational level is secondary school‚ he work as taxi driver ‚ he is
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hours (after breakfast and again after dinner). The onset of the NPH will be about 1.5 hours after she takes it. It will peak in about 4-12 hours (after lunch and again after dinner: at bedtime). She will need to have a snack before bed to avoid hypoglycemia from the NPH. She should be taught that after injection of insulin it is very important to follow with a meal. For example‚ breakfast should be eating within a half an hour of taking her morning dose of mixed insulin‚ because the regular insulin
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in a decreased amount of ATP. Less ATP affects the ability for some cellular processes to occur. One process that this affects is glycogenolysis. If glycogenolysis is impaired‚ this causes low blood glucose (hypoglycemia). This explains how heredity fructose intolerance leads to hypoglycemia. Another explanation for disease is that cellular F 1-P buildup has toxic consequences for cells. There is feedback inhibition of fructose 1-phosphate on fructokinase which leads to a decrease in the amount of
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Staphylococcus aureus‚ otherwise known as Staph‚ is a bacterium that has naturally acquired resistance to many current antibiotics. Specifically‚ the MRSA (methicillin-resistant Staphylococcus aureus) strain has acquired resistance to methicillin. Staph frequently colonizes in human nasal passages‚ which serve as reservoirs for transmission. The following texts focus on Staph’s nasal colonization and mode of transmission‚ inspired by the research of Dr. Alexander Cole at UCF’s Burnett School of Biomedical
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the axillary route it was recorded around 99 F and by the rectal route it was 99.1 F. The neonate’s body felt warm to the touch. After refraining from wrapping the neonate in a blanket‚ his temperature decreased to 98.8 F. However‚ 2 ½ hours later‚ his axillary temperature was checked again and was recorded at 99.4 F. The neonate risks developing hyperthermia. Intervention 1: Maintaining the surrounding temperature at a comfortable range (Doenges‚ Moorhouse‚ & Murr‚ 2016‚ p. 868). • Rationale:
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Pediatr Nephrol 2008; 23:21212129. Gunn VL‚ Nechyba C‚ ed. The Harriet Lane handbook: a manual for pediatric house officers. 16th ed. Philadelphia‚ Pa: Mosby; 2002. Cohen MD. Choosing contrast media for the evaluation of the gastrointestinal tract of neonates and infants. Radiology 1987; 162:447-456. Friedman BI‚ Hartenberg MA‚ Mulroy JJ‚ Tong TK‚ Mickell JJ. Gastrografin aspiration in a 3 3/4-year-old girl. Pediatr Radiol 1986; 16:506-507. McAlister WH‚ Siegel MJ. Fatal aspirations in infancy during
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the surfactant production and the higher the probability for RDS. Direct tracheal instillation of surfactant has been shown to reduce mortality and morbidity in infants with RDS. Lack of surfactant leading cause of pulmonary complications in the neonate‚ also lungs become stiff and non-compliant. Also lack of surfactant causes energy loss‚ hypoxia‚ and hypoventilation. There are other neonatal lung disorders in which inadequate functional surfactant may be a prominent element of the pathophysiology
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child begins to learn speech and language‚ he begins with the phonemes. Phonemes are the unique sounds that joined together to create words and it consists of consonant and vowel sounds. Different languages use different sounds. Research says that neonates
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In almost all birthing settings around the world‚ the norm is to clamp and cut the umbilical cord almost immediately after the infant is born. As many people know‚ cutting the cord is a historic event in a baby and the mother’s life. For about nine months‚ the fetus developing in the uterus is attached to its mother by a cord known as the umbilical cord. The umbilical cord is a flexible cord attaching from the mothers placenta to the infants umbilicus providing nutrients and oxygen to the infant
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Diabetes mellitus is a group of metabolic disorders characterized by elevated levels of blood glucose (hyperglycemia) resulting from defects in insulin production and secretion‚ decreased cellular response to insulin‚ or both. This leads to hyperglycemia‚ which may lead to acute metabolic complications‚ such as diabetic ketoacidosis (DKA) and hyperglycemic hyperosmolar nonketotic syndrome (HHNS). Longterm hyperglycemia may contribute to chronic microvascular complications (kidney and eye disease)
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