INTRODUCTION Patient J is an elderly female who presented to the ED with pneumonia, pulmonary edema, hypoxia, and sepsis. Patient J’s genitourinary issues include stage three chronic kidney disease (hereinafter CKD) with high BUN and creatinine lab work supporting this condition. She also has a history of Diabetes Mellitus II which is of significance due to the relationship between high blood sugar and kidney damage. Also of significance are three contributors to the concept of chronic kidney failure: obesity, anemia, hypertension.…
In many family households the main provider for the family would often be the male, but in my family there was a different circumstance. Because my dad got kidney stones and when the time he had found out he had kidney stone it was too late for any treatment and was immediately given the choice of a kidney transplant. Which cause a lot of money and also there are risks of not succeeding in the surgery. As my dad's name on the long waiting list of needing a kidney transplant, he had to take medicine prescribed by the doctor, but also go to the hospital once a week to get kidney treatment so the condition would not get worse. As my dad staying at home all the time and going to the hospital once a week to get his treatment, my mom would keep going…
Heart failure is one of the leading causes in death among the human health system. Scientist is constantly finding ways to keep the cardiovascular system healthy so this casualty can be reduced. In order to do that, a solution has to be put in place to keep the cardiovascular system regulated. This means knowing how the heart functions and how to keep it working at a sustainable level so problems can be prevented.…
Hello everyone, Acute kidney failure is an abrupt loss of kidney function to filter waste products from the body’s blood. It usually occurs rapidly within a few hours or days. Possible causes are acute tubular necrosis, disorders that result in blood clotting within the kidney vessels, pregnancy complications, and infections that directly injure the kidney (MedlinePlus, 2015). It is common in individuals who are critically ill and need intensive care. Symptoms may include urine output decrease, decrease in appetite, nausea, seizures, fatigue, high blood pressure, bloody stools, and shortness of breath (MedlinePlus, 2015).…
Everyone has scars physical and mental. Physical scars are the type one get’s from falling off a bike. Physical scars fade, but mental last. The brain process stress and trauma in different ways. Sometimes the trauma gets so overwhelming the brain just snaps.…
Pathophysiology Congestive heart failure (CHF) is a clinical syndrome in which the pumping action of the heart becomes less powerful and fluid builds up forcing it into the lungs causing pulmonary edema or causing edema in the peripheral vascular system. CHF is used interchangeably with Heart failure (HF). HF is characterized by myocardial dysfunction, which is an alteration in ventricular contraction. Myocardial dysfunction can be caused by a result of many different conditions such as coronary artery disease, hypertension, cardiomyopathy, valvular disorders, renal dysfunction, ischemia and myocardial infarction. It can be systolic heart failure in which the heart muscles are weakened and results in decreased blood ejected from the ventricle,…
Chronic heart failure is a disorder where the heart weakens and therefore the heart is unable to fill and pump blood as well as a healthy heart. Conditions that overstrain the heart muscle can lead to heart failure (5). The main causation of chronic heart failure is a heart attack which results in damage to the muscle of the left ventricle (8). In addition cardiomyopathy (chronic disease of the heart muscle) may cause heart failure; this may perhaps be initiated by a viral infection (1).Conditions such as hypertension (high blood pressure) and arrhythmia (irregular rate or rhythm of heartbeat) could also contribute to the cause of chronic heart failure (5).…
What is Chronic Kidney Disease? Chronic kidney disease (CKD) is an irreversible condition that progresses causing renal dysfunction that is present for at least 3 months eventually leading to renal failure. According to the National Kidney Foundation, 1 in 3 American adults is at risk for kidney disease (National Kidney Foundation, 2012). CKD is an ongoing process of renal injury that causes compensatory hyperfiltration in less affected glomeruli, which eventually leads to the destruction of those glomeruli as well (Buttaro et al., 2013).…
Medical conditions are bound to increase due to change in lifestyles. One of the life threatening conditions is heart failure. The heart is a muscular structure that pumps blood to all parts of the body. Heart failure results when the heart fails to pump enough blood hence increased overload. The pathophysiology occurs as a result of increased workload on the left ventricle especially in patients with hypertension.…
Abnormal Heart This is a long story about me, but I’m going to simplify it. I was an innocent and pure boy when my childhood, just like other children. I trusted everyone and everything; I believed everyone is virtuous and honest. I liked to go outside to play with my friends, and keep smiling all day.…
The plane landed with a thump; I was glad to be on the ground after enduring the storm the plane flew through. I opened my eyes and looked outside, which was dark and gloomy. The trees were naked, and the snow on the ground was thick. After grabbing my bag from the baggage claim, I walked outside hoping for my Grandpa Albert to be waiting for me in his car. But instead, my uncle was there waving for me to notice him.…
My need for heart healthy changes are an apparent. Having members of my family with high blood pressure, type 2 diabetes, and heart disease have affected the quality and length of life my relatives have had. I want to change from poor diet, extreme stress, and lack of exercise, so not to tread down the same path my family has. Change is the most rewarding path to take, but also will be very difficult; regardless of the challenges, change must be made for the sake of my future. Before I began this semester in Health 101, I was making very poor health choices.…
As children we all have vague memories; some unable to distinguish from real or a dream you once had. Regardless of how much I remember or what I choose to remember, it still happened. The beginning of 1995, my parents recently married with two sons, josh about to turn 2 and Scott about to enter high school. By the end of the year my family would move back to New Mexico for the delivery of their baby girl. During my mother’s second pregnancy she was experiencing some complications.…
Valentine’s Day Most people think of Valentine’s Day as a romantic holiday filled with delicate heart-shaped chocolates and dozens of red roses. As for me, I do not think of such things. Hospitals and sadness comes into my mind when February 14th approaches every year. Every winter I participate in an annual swim meet held in Rochester, Minnesota, this year it happened to fall on the weekend of Valentine’s Day. Me being 14, I was beyond ecstatic to spend the weekend in a hotel.…
Having a glimpse at what life could be like in those few days my dad contemplated the job never allowed me to become blind again. Instead, it gave me new sight, one which was clearer than ever before. My mom looked like she’d grown ten years just from the stress and worry of juggling paying for groceries and paying bills. Every time her cell phone rang, I watched as she went through a roller coaster of emotions, either ending in relief that it wasn’t a bill collector or gut wrenching sadness when it was. Slowly, like everything that opposed us, she began to ignore the calls.…