NUR1 323 Lecture Notes - Lecture 8: Hepcidin, Immunosuppression, Menopause
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Midterm review: question on mr. lemur and his post-op delirium. The biggest weakness for most of the class was picking up on the fact that he was deteriorating. He was showing significant signs of blood loss: bp had dropped, high rr, and high hr. He was not acutely crashing, but he was not really doing well. Most people focused on opioids and respiratory depression, but he was breathing at 26, which is. Not respiratory depression: the question asked about the priority thing to assess: You wouldn"t be doing his blood gas or electrolyte, for which you need an order. You want to assess abdomen for signs of bleeding due to gi surgery: taking his temperature is not relevant to his obvious signs of bleeding. Wbcs are high in situations of infection. We will also cover malignancies including leukemia and lymphoma. Bleeding disorders and medications that cause them. Transfusions: the average life span of erythrocyte (rbc) is 120 days.