Assessment and management of acute sore throat Practice Nursing Vol 26, No 10Shona Green
In case you’re just looking for a head-to-toe assessment cheat sheet, we’ve created a brief list here of the major things to check for. You can click on each of the body systems to be taken to a more in-depth description with instructions for that part of the head-to-toe assessm...
Quality of life is affected by the COVID-19 pandemic.67Vocal self-assessment instruments can demonstrate changes in voice-relatedquality of life. Good choices would include instruments specific to voice perception related physical symptoms, such as coughing and sore throat. This would include Voice ...
People with no symptoms of an upper respiratory tract infection (cough, sore throat, headache, muscle aches, fatigue, runny nose, and joint aches, and may also include nausea, diarrhea and stomach pains). These people do not need to call Telehealth Ontario, or be assessed for COVID-19, ...
Patient J.B. presented the office with chief complaints of coughs and sore throat that lasted about seven days. These symptoms are typically seen in respiratory tract infection or inflammation that is caused by viruses or bacteria. The initial differential diagnoses included Influenza, cough, common...
Headache, nausea, and sore throat accounted for 10.3% of acute illnesses. Approximately 14.5% of acute illness patients mentioned more than one symptom. Table 1 shows that 76.8% of households had a single chronic disease, while 23.2% had two chronic illnesses. High blood pressure makes a ...
These conclusions are important since routine NG tube placement may be associated with complications such as an increased incidence of sore throat and the rare risk of esophageal perforation. It’s hard to eat with a tube in your nose, and multiple studies show the benefits of early feeding. ...
Immunotherapy is currently applied in the first-line treatment regimens for numerous advanced cancers, especially advanced lung cancer. Immune-related adverse events (irAEs) resulting from immunotherapy can vary in severity and cause a substantial symptom burden to patients. However, there are limited ...
However, the need to monitor also the mild symptoms of COVID-19 (myalgia, coughing and/or sore throat and/or common cold with or without fever) should be stressed. In fact, among the 14 SARS- CoV-2-positive HWs due to exposure to two index pa- tients in the neurosurgery ward in ...
It was only after I understood the interdisciplinary and cooperative nature of the College of Human Ecology during my visit to Cornell this past summer that I fully realized the school was the perfect fit for me. While the college’s mission, “To improve lives,” is a simple one, the ste...