COLLEGE OF NURSING IN PARTIAL FULFILMENT IN NCM 102 CASE PRESENTATION “CHRONIC KIDNEY DISEASE” SUBMITTED BY: I. INTRODUCTION Chronic Kidney Disease "It’s a silent disease" until the kidneys are severely damage‚ Andrew Levey‚ chief of nephrology at Tufts New England‚ Medical Center in Boston‚ said. What is chronic kidney disease? Chronic Kidney disease or CKD ‚ is a condition that affects the function of the kidneys and that may progress over time to kidney failure. When
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Chapter 47: Nursing Management: Acute Kidney Injury and Chronic Kidney Disease Test Bank MULTIPLE CHOICE 1. After the insertion of an arteriovenous graft (AVG) in the right forearm‚ a 54-year-old patient complains of pain and coldness of the right fingers. Which action should the nurse take? a. Teach the patient about normal AVG function. b. Remind the patient to take a daily low-dose aspirin tablet. c. Report the patient’s symptoms to the health care provider. d. Elevate the patient’s arm on pillows
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Chronic Kidney Disease Eileen Daza-Gallego The Center for Allied Health Nursing Education Abstract An estimated 26 million adults in the United States have Chronic Kidney Disease (CKD). Persons with CKD are unlikely to be aware of their disease and seek appropriate treatment before it is too late. Among those that have the disease‚ a large majority of them are obese and are suffering from diabetes or hypertension or both. The majority of the individuals with hypertension and/or diabetes will
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INTRODUCTION — In almost all cases‚ hyponatremia results from the intake (either oral or intravenous) and subsequent retention of water [1]. A water load will‚ in normal subjects‚ be rapidly excreted as the dilutional fall in plasma osmolality suppresses the release of antidiuretic hormone (ADH)‚ thereby allowing the excretion of a dilute urine. The maximum rate of water excretion on a regular diet is over 10 liters per day‚ thereby providing an enormous range of protection against the development
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1) Introduction Shock is a syndrome‚ in which oxygen supply to various tissues and organs of the body are interrupted.1 It represents the final common pathway‚ of a variety of potentially lethal diseases and conditions.2‚3 It is a medical emergency‚ involving acute tissue hypoperfusion and cellular destruction‚ and will ultimately lead to organ failure and death‚ if left untreated.2‚3 Despite a huge amount of research into understanding the syndrome‚ it remains a very common clinical condition
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human-computer interaction and designing for human values‚ in particular on systems to support civic engagement and deliberation‚ and on tools to make public transportation easier and more fun to use. I’ve also worked on UrbanSim‚ a modeling system for simulating the development of urban areas over periods of 20-30 years to inform public decision-making about major transportation and land use decisions and their environmental impacts. Prior to that my primary research area was in object-oriented languages
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water in the production of potable water or industrial process water. The reasons are increasing costs for ground water (taxes‚...) and new available technologies enabling a quality and cost efficient (less O&M costs) treatment e.g. membrane filtration. 15 years ago reverse osmosis (RO) became state-of-the-art for the production of demineralised water (boiler feed or process water) from conventionally pretreated surface water. Recently direct ultrafiltration (UF) of those surface water without
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Situation: Two patients in their 70s present to the office at different times today‚ each with documented heart failure: one diastolic and the other systolic‚ and both are hypertensive. First‚ discuss the difference between systolic and diastolic heart failure‚ providing appropriate pathophysiology. ACEI/ARBs are the only medications prescribed for CHF that have been found to prolong life and improve the quality of that life. EXPLAIN the mechanism of action of ACEI/ARBs and how they affect morbidity
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Croton’s Water Filtration Company has had many negative and positive impacts on the community and surrounding areas of the Bronx and Manhattan. This plant is one of the biggest constructions in New York’s City history. In 1993 there was a threat of contamination causing the plant to be shut down. The preparation for the plant started in 2004. This company had to abide by the state and federal regulations of drinking water. They had to think of the public health. They have been applying water to
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water‚ ethanol‚ benzene‚ and ethyl acetate. Also pure acetanilide is achieved. here are five major steps in the recrystallization process: dissolving the solute in the solvent‚ performing a gravity filtration‚ if necessary‚ obtaining crystals of the solute‚ collecting the solute crystals by vacuum filtration‚ and‚ finally‚ drying the resulting crystals giving us the pure sample of the compound. The best solvent used for each of the compounds listed and the percentage recovery of the crude acetanilide
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