UnresponsiveMany of the medical problems seen in acutely ill children have the potential for culminating in respiratory failure. The approach to managing such patients whilst requiring paediatric intensive care has largely 'evolved' over the past 20 years from an historical disease-orientated focus to ...
coma is a total absence of awareness of one’s self and the environment. A person in a coma is unrousable and unresponsive to external stimuli. For example, when a person is asleep he or she
a. With a patient who is unresponsive or has a decreased LOC, immediately assess the patency of the airway. assess breathing *** assess circulation 1. Circulation is evaluated by assessing the patient's mental status, pulse, and skin condition. 2. Assess pulse.3. Skin conditiona. Perfusion...
Nausea with vomiting was unresponsive to the strongest anti-emetics. And, it had now started to consume him. It was combined with intermittent distress in breathing. He still did not display any sign of despondency. Having being cognizant of the paucity of time he had left, he had already m...
At 6 am on January 8 his abdomen again appeared to be distended possibly due to fecal impaction; he was recatheterized, but no urine was obtained. Shortly thereafter (6.10 am) the patient was found unresponsive with a blood pressure of 180/90 and pulse rate of 102; the pupils were ...
By the time the nurse came, you had finished. Rigor released, sunken back into the bed, breathing but not responding. I went through exactly what I had seen and the nurse told me not to worry, you’d done it before. Before? Before?
He was actually dead. At age 36, that could have been the end right there. The guy wasn't breathing, no pulse, he was totally unresponsive. Trumbull EMS FB Page... The patient was given two electric shocks from the defibrillator and only then did his heart begin beating on its own...
But as will be demonstrated, this decision comes at a steep price. Back again to your 30 year old patient… Instead of breathing room air in the PACU, he’s put on 3 L/min O2 through nasal cannulas. Let’s assume that this raises his FIO2 from .21 to .30, a commonplace ...
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and/or chemotherapy. New growth of a slow-growing tumor might not show for years. The scary truth is that any form of ependymoma that is either inoperable surgically or unresponsive to radiation and/or drug therapies eventually will kill the patient, on a timeline that is specific to the ind...