Hypovolemi A Case Study

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The purpose of this project is to become familiarized with factual case studies, become content with collecting data, formalizing nursing diagnosis, and interventions. This project will help us learn how to essentially connect our health assessment and pathophysiology education. After completing this project we will be able to devise nursing diagnosis and interventions confidently and become further knowledgeable about the necessary subject matters. Nursing Physical Assessment The patient presented to our group is a 68 year old African American woman who has a history of hypertension, apparent asthma, hyperlipidemia, and osteoarthritis. She has had a hysterectomy and a family history of noncontributory. Home medications consist of Spironalactone 50mg p.o. daily. Patient lives at home with her family; she hasn’t had any form of tobacco in over 30 years and does not consume any form of alcohol. Client was in her typical state of health up until last Tuesday; which is when she began to have lower quadrant abdominal pain. Subjective data collected was “there was more pain on …show more content…

Hypovolemia is also known as deficient fluid volume in the blood. This disorder is fluid and electrolyte imbalance which is evidenced by our client’s blood results. With hypovolemia, your cells are fluid and electrolyte deprived and can either cause the lysing or crenation of your cells. One of the causes of hypovolemia is frequent loss of fluid, which coincides with our client’s diagnosis of urge incontinence. One of the electrolyte imbalances that our patient had was hypokalemia. Hypokalemia is a potassium level that is lower than the normal range or 3.5. Mild symptoms of hypokalemia include, abnormal heart rhythms (dysrhythmias), especially in people with heart disease, constipation feeling of skipped heart beats or palpitations, fatigue muscle damage, muscle weakness or spasms, tingling or numbness (Saunders,

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