Nala, a two-year, eight-month-old spayed female Cane Corso was presented to Heritage Animal Hospital for vomiting on February 1, 2017. Her owner complained that she had not been able to hold any food down since January 31, 2017. Nala had a foreign body surgery last month here at the clinic. The owner informed our staff that Nala had a rash around her incision for roughly the past two weeks. The owner stated she does not believe her dog ingested anything. During the physical exam, Nala appeared quiet, alert, and responsive. The technician assessed the oral cavity and Nala had tacky mucous membranes and pink gums. The capillary refill time was quoted to be less than 2 seconds. The dental exam was clinically normal. The eyes were bright, clear, …show more content…
The owner was instructed to give two 100mg tablets of Rimadyl orally once daily. This is a non-steroidal anti-inflammatory used for relief in pain and inflammation. Give one 500mg capsule of Amoxicillin orally twice a day. This would help treat any bacterial infections and inhibit any growth of bacteria. Give two 20mg tablets of Famotidine orally once daily. This would help reduce the amount of acid the stomach makes so it would treat or prevent possible ulcers. Give one 15mg tablet of Mirtazapine orally once daily if not eating. This is an appetite stimulant would help stimulate her appetite if she does not eat. Make sure to restrict Nala's activity, which means no running, jumping, and rough housing for ten days. We recommended the client to check the incision daily for signs of swelling, redness, drainage, or irritation, and suggested having Nala wear an e-collar at all times. Nala should receive a special diet that consists of a low protein source such as turkey or chicken, along with a carbohydrate source such as potatoes, sweet potatoes, or rice. 1-cup protein and 2 cups carbohydrates. She may receive 1 cup per 10lbs. If she does not wish to make Nala a special bland diet, she may buy a special intestinal canned diet that Heritage sells. A special diet was recommended for patients such as Nala because of the digestibility, so it would not be as potent to the stomach. It may encourage one to eat, which supports the body in its recovery. The instructions stated that there does not need to be a re-check because no external suture placed, unless a complication arises. The owner was told to notify us if there was loss of appetite, refusal to drink, severe depression, lethargy, pain, vomiting, diarrhea or fever. Mentioned if she has any problems or questions to contact an emergency hospital or us during regular business hours after
In January 2005, contractors were excavating blocks of pavement to place electricity cables right at the corner of Ocean Street and Octavia Street, Narrabeen, NSW. The project was suspended due to an unanticipated discovery of a human skeleton buried underground, right beside a public bus shelter. The bones were in good state although some parts were missing. Fragments of primitive artefacts were also found around and inside the skeleton.
Education of the patient will begin. Depending on the size of the abscess and how extensive the procedure was the patient may need a relative or friend to drive them back home. Not only would the patient need a ride back home, they may need to be watched for 24 hours. As part of pain management pain medication may be given to the patient to decrease pain. Antibiotics may be given to fight or prevent infection caused by the bacteria. The patient will also need to list all medications that they are taking so there will not be any contraindications with the medications that the patient is given. Advise the patient that more than one follow-up appointment will be necessary in order to properly treat the wound. Before the end of the appointment, the medical assistant should give the patient written instructions along with an emergency number and the number to the practice incase the patient has any questions or concerns. Advise the patient to return to the practice if they experience any fever, chills, or the abscess returns. If red streaks appear around the wound tell the patient to call the emergency department immediately. After the the procedure and patient education has been completed, make sure all the step of the procedure has been documented in the patient’s record and all follow-up procedures have been
The Newham Company is a publicly traded company that recently has had a change in executive management due to an inappropriate bonus structure based on company performance. As this type of bonus structure often leads to material misstatement of facts resulting in falsified financial reports, the new management at Newham has commissioned SNHU INC. to conduct an audit which assesses their risk of misstatement. The audit to follow will be broken down into three parts: Overall business risk, sample audit plan and a report of recommendations based audit results.
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Jerry Huang, a male patient underwent a surgical procedure for an inflammatory intestinal disease. A small part of his intestine was removed, and he was on total parenteral nutrition before surgery; he continued on TPN after surgery for about ten days; then, he started on enteral nutrition which delivered very small feedings (DeBruyne & Pinna, 2012).
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Including foods that can help with the healing process and take those that are not needed.
The band is adjustable (it is usually not filled until six weeks after surgery). The patient needs to be fully prepared for the reduction of food intake and educated about choices needed to achieve an adequate dietary intake. The patient needs to work with the procedure to eat appropriately and follow exercise and lifestyle choices appropriate for a weight-losing regimen, rather than try to follow the former lifestyle and eating habits. Since this procedure does not interfere with digestion and absorption, nutritional status ought not to be impaired, but commonly occurring problems (iron, vitamin D and calcium deficiency) may still occur. If the quality of the diet is believed to be poor after surgery, there may well be an inadequate intake of micronutrients. During weight-loss, medications which are continued (see below) may need to be given in liquid form, since tablets and capsules may not pass easily through the stricture. The gut is dynamic and does change in response to the reduced food intake, but the major changes of gut hormones seen after bypass surgery do not occur and there may be little effect on appetite control. Patients may not feel full after eating. They may be troubled by hunger after gastric banding and may need help to overcome
On my third day of clinical course I had an African America patient age 72, female, a retired high school teacher who was admitted for an Acute Diverticulitis with Perforation. She is diabetic and had a medical and surgical history of diverticulitis, High Cholesterol, Non-Insulin-Dependent Diabetes Mellitus (NIDDM), Hysterectomy, and Scoliosis. She has been on clear liquid diet since she was admitted then she was Nothing by Mouth NPO for the CT scan for that day. When I got the assignment that I was going to be taking care of a patient with an acute diverticulitis, the first thing on my mind was that she will be in a severe abdominal pain, high fever due to infection because my aunty had same disease. To my surprise, she claimed a 0 /10 on a 0-10 pain scale. Her blood sugar and vital signs were normal except for respiratory that was 22. All her laboratory test results were normal including WBC. Patient concern was that she couldn’t have a bowel movement. She was medicated on Colace- a stool softener, morphine for pain, sulfran for nausea, and azactam an antibiotics.
Toby-Finn, a 21 year-old Caucasian gentleman, is presented to the Emergency Department with a chief complaint of severe abdominal pain. Toby-Finn, who is a full time college student was just discharged three days ago from the Medical Surgical Unit status post laparoscopy appendectomy. Upon arrival to the Emergency Department, Toby-Finn has a computed tomography of the abdomen, and he is diagnosed with Ischemic Necrosis of Small Bowel, and required to go under another abdominal surgery. Toby-Finn was given a total of four milligrams of Morphine Sulfate intravenously, five milligrams of Reglan intravenously, and one liter of Normal Saline intravenously in the Emergency Department. The admitting physician, Dr. Sophie had contacted the surgeon, Dr. Scarlett for emergency surgery. In the meantime, Dr.Sophie had provided a written order for pain management to keep the patient comfortable.
NAGPRA is relevant to archaeological objects from the field and repositories. These items include Native American remains, associated or unassociated funerary objects, sacred objects, and objects of cultural heritage. It covers these objects if they are in federal or federally funded repositories and any public repository or museum that received federal funding before or since 1990. NAGPRA requires consultation, and proof of consultation, with Indian tribes if human remains or objects that may be covered by NAGPRA are likely to be excavated in the process of fieldwork or discovered accidentally. NAGPRA has impacted archaeological collections in quite a few ways. It has set standards for repatriation. It requires every federal agency and federally
In the summer of 2005 Nan Reilly was at the beach with her family and friends when she had a terrible power collision accident. Nan had to be airlifted to a trauma center, she was in critical conditions. She spent months receiving care in trauma and rehab center.
Feline oral resorptive lesions (FORL), also known as feline stomatitis or more commonly feline tooth resorption, is a relatively common oral disease often seen in veterinary practice. The general nature of the disease is to eat away at the tooth structures similarly to cavaties or carries in humans, though the disease is not initiated in the same manner as humans as felines do not consume an overabundance of simple carbohydrates. In fact, it is not truly known what the cause of this disease is, though there are several potential factors that may initiate, worsen, or are general signs of FORL.
Our approach in managing wounds was far from being optimal in our own setting. After having read the article of Sibbald et al (1) and assisting to presentations during the first residential week-end, our approach at St. Mary 's Hospital Center 's Family Medicine Clinic must change. We were not classifying wounds as healable, maintenance or non-healable. We were always considering the wounds in our practice as healable despite considering the system 's restraints or the patients ' preferences. In the following lines, I will define and summarize the methods one should use in order to initial management of wounds and how to integrate it better to our site. The first goal we need to set is to determine its ability to heal. In order to ascertain if a wound is healable, maintenance or a non-healable wound.