Week 4 – Assignments (Respiratory Systems)
Case Study Analysis – Due Sunday, June 23rd, submit a 1-2 page paper.
Use the following information to formulate your analysis
A 50-year-old white female presents to the emergency room with complaints of increased chest congestion with purulent sputum production for the last 3 days.
She reports increased dyspnea and using her albuterol inhaler which isn’t helping her symptoms.
PMH >> The patient reports a history of tobacco use for last 10 years and a history of COPD which was diagnosed last year.
The patient reports that her primary care provider ordered another medication for the COPD but she couldn’t afford it.
The patient denies fever. The patient’s vital signs: BP 148/90, pulse 108, respirations 22, O2 sat 92%, and temp 98.1F.
Chest x-ray reveals hyperinflation with flattened diaphragm but is without effusions or infiltrates.
Answer and Analysis these topics
The pulmonary pathophysiologic processes that result in the patient presenting these symptoms.
Any racial/ethnic variables that may impact physiological functioning.
How these processes interact to affect the patient. (Some examples of these processes would be the impact on the respiratory or cardiac systems)
Evidenced-based journal to assist with the case study include
Journal of Thoracic Disease
American Journal of Respiratory and Critical Care Medicine
American Journal of Preventive Cardiology
American Journal of Respiratory
Critical Care Medicine
Answer the questions using APA format – title page, introduction, body of the paper, conclusion, and a Reference page.
Include two scholarly references.
In addition:
An understanding of the respiratory system is a critically important component of disease diagnosis and treatment. This importance is magnified by the fact that oftentimes, the respiratory system works closely with the cardiovascular system. A variety of factors and circumstances that impact the emergence and severity of issues in one system can have a role in the performance of the other.
Effective disease analysis often requires an understanding that goes beyond these systems and their capacity to work together. The impact of patient characteristics, as well as racial and ethnic variables, can also have an important impact.
An understanding of the symptoms of alterations in the respiratory system is a critical step in diagnosis and treatment of many diseases. For APRNs, this understanding can also help educate patients and guide them through their treatment plans.
In this Assignment, you examine a case study and analyze the symptoms presented. You identify the elements that may be factors in the diagnosis, and you explain the implications to patient health.
The Assignment
In your Case Study Analysis related to the scenario provided, explain the following
The pulmonary pathophysiologic processes that result in the patient presenting these symptoms.
Any racial/ethnic variables that may impact physiological functioning.
How these processes interact to affect the patient.
