Achalasia has the potential to cost the healthcare system a lot of money. There is no cure for Achalasia, therefore this is something that needs to be treated, sometimes as often as every 3 months (Dugdale, George & Zieve, 2010). When my mother has the surgery to stretch her esophageal sphincter, the average cost of her surgery ranges from $1,900 to $3,000, depending on anesthetics and whether or not they need to suck out food that is stuck in the esophagus. Insurance pays the majority of the cost
earlier, people that take NSAIDs daily have a higher risk because these medications inhibits the enzymes that helps protect the stomach lining. To test and see if the people have gastric ulcer the doctor will order esophagogastroduodenoscopy (EGD) and upper GI x-ray. Esophagogastroduodenoscopy is performed with a thin tube with a camera in the end and inserted through the mouth into the GI tact and check for ulcers in the stomach and the small intestine. Gastric ulcer ... ... middle of paper ...
Pancytopenia a type of anemia that can be define as a decrease in three blood cell types, red blood cells, white blood cells, and platelets. Prior to my pathophysiology course, I had never actually came across a patient in practice with this diagnosis. However, a few weeks ago, as I was receiving report from the off going nurse, she informed me my patient had recently been released from University of Hospital (U of L) with similar symptoms and had been treated for Helicobacter pylori infection. After
Multiple. S The patient is a 58-year-old female who tells me she has been having multiple symptoms and worries whether she might be having some tick borne illness or perhaps Bartonella, which she had in 2006. She tells me at that time, she was diagnosed with Lyme, Bartonella, ehrlichiosis, babesiosa. She was treat treated for all four of these. She states she was seeing Dr. Sam Donta in Boston at the time, but apparently he moved to Falmouth, Massachusetts. She has not seen him. I have no records
care being delivered to the patient. Specifically, an example of the situation mentioned in the former that comes to mind is when I had to educate my patient’s mother, foster mother, and grandmother about why the patient had to undergo an esophagogastroduodenoscopy (EGD). The patient’s mother had already signed consent for the procedure, but after speaking to all of them about it, it was clear that they all did not understand what exactly was going to happen to the patient, besides stating a highly
Cascade Valley Hospital’s OR area consists of 3 operating rooms, a pre-op and recovery area nearby. This is in contrast to the much larger operation I previously experienced at Providence Hospital. Pre-operatively patients were brought into the only pre-op room where forms and consent were looked over, allergies verified, proper surgical site confirmed by staff and patient, last minute medication given (antibiotic) and last minute concerns answered. Intra-operatively, the surgeries or procedures
hindered by the need for a rapid response. Her second patient, B.S., was a 41-year-old male that was admitted on 10/30/16 for an upper gastrointestinal bleed. Upon report Maddie found out that the patient had vomited blood the day prior. An esophagogastroduodenoscopy was ordered for the patient, it showed that he had an esophageal ulcer and a CT scan of his abdomen showed chronic liver insufficiency. Maddie noted that the patient’s hemoglobin and hematocrit were low as a result of this
disease can start for anyone at any age, it is diagnosed equally between adults and children, but it’s more regularly diagnosed in primary age than in preschool children. The current state in diagnosing celiac disease is by performing an Esophagogastroduodenoscopy with duodenal biopsy. Patients that are considered to have celiac disease if the presence of at least one of these symptoms occurs, abdominal pain, chronic diarrhea, unexplained anemia, osteoporosis, unexplained neuropathy, and/or u...
left of the spine except for really large hernias in which it may expand past the cardiac confines and can possibly mimic cardiomegaly (Kahn, 2008). A hiatal hernia is usually detected using three methods, an upper endoscopy also called esophagogastroduodenoscopy or EGD, a plain chest radiograph, and and upper GI barium series (Kahn, 2008). When using an upper endoscopy to diagnose hiatal hernia, the doctor will insert a small, lighted, flexible tube called an endoscope into the patient's mouth
water. A third port of the scope provided an access for clamps to be inserted and retrieve a biopsy of abnormal tissue. (Lewis, Dirksen, Heitkemper, & Bucher, 2014, p. 881) The second procedure I was fortunate to observe was an esophagogastroduodenoscopy (EGD). The operation was performed with local anesthesia to the throat or sedation. The same type of scope was utilized, but instead of inserting through the rectum, the scope was inserted through the mouth. This procedure allowed the doctor
Erika Joyce Domagas BIO 2060 LD07 Professor Klein November 20, 2016 PBL Extra Credit: Doc, Is It My Heart? 1. I diagnose Robert with gastroesophageal reflux disease (GERD) based on his history and examination. GERD is commonly associated with acid reflux, but they are not the same thing. Acid reflux is an action that occurs in the disease. GERD is a condition when contents in the stomach travel back into the esophagus and create heartburn, a burning feeling in the chest and even throat (“What Is