CASE SCENARIO 437.MRS L.P. GOODNESS, FELL AT HOME.🛌

Age/Sex : 76years.Female .

Goodness ,Love Pepper.

Attending doctor: Tumtum,Worry

MR # Q000224433102.

Inpatient admission.

Unit : Trauma.

Date: 09/01/2020.

Primary diagnosis:Right hip pain due to ground level fall. Walking to the living room to sit down ,she slip and fell.Subtrochanteric femur fractures. 🛌

Secondary diagnosis dm,htn,hypothyroidism,Osteoporosis, cataracts removal. Right hip swelling.

RA. 95%

Purwick in place for convenient and patient request.(female urinal)

NKDA.

Laboratory tests:

WBC = 9.0.

H/H 12.0/36%.

Na =136.

K= 3.8

Norco 10 /325mg Q6hours prn pain mild to moderate.

morphine 2mg IV Q8hrs severe pain.

0.9NS@75mlhr left forearm.

NPO x medication and ice chips.

Consultation:

General surgery consult.

Orthopedic surgery consult.

Dietary consult.

Reference:

http://www.hopkinsmedicine.org

Published by edochie99

A Registered Nurse with over twenty years of hospital experience, an author with Masters Degree in Nursing,also Bachelor Degree in Nursing,graduated in 1996 from USC,University of Southern California.MSN in 2009 University of Phoenix.

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