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5 Benign Febrile Convulsions Nursing Care Plans
A febrile seizure is a convulsion in a child triggered by a fever. Such convulsions occur without any underlying brain or spinal cord infection or other neurological cause. According to studies, about 3-5% of otherwise healthy children between the ages of 9 months and 5 years will have a seizure More >
2 Dengue Hemorrhagic Fever Nursing Care Plans
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Dengue is transmitted by the bite of an Aedesmosquito infected with any one of the four dengue viruses. It occurs in tropical and sub-tropical areas of the world. Symptoms appear 3—14 days after the infective bite. Dengue fever is a febrile illness that affects infants, young children and adults.
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5 Neonatal Sepsis Nursing Care Plans
Neonatal Sepsis is an infection in the blood that spreads throughout the body and occurs in a neonate. Neonatal Sepsis is also termed as Neonatal Septicemia and Sepsis Neonatorum. Neonatal Sepsis has 2 types: The one that is seen in the first week of life is termed as Early- onset More >
8 TAHBSO Nursing Care Plans
Total abdominal hysterectomy bilateral salpingo oophorectomy (TAHBSO) is the removal of entire uterus, the ovaries, fallopian tubes and the cervix. TAHBSO is usually performed in the case of uterine and cervical cancer. This is the most common kind of hysterectomy. Removal of the ovaries eliminates the main source of the More >
Congestive Heart Failure, AV Block Nursing Care Plans
Heart failure is a physiologic state in which he heart cannot pump enough blood to meet the metabolic needs of the body. Heart failure results from changes in systolic or diastolic function of the left ventricle. The heart fails when, because of intrinsic disease or structural it cannot handle a More >
Acute Pyelonephritis Nursing Care Plans
Kidney infection (pyelonephritis) is a specific type of urinary tract infection (UTI) that generally begins in your urethra or bladder and travels up into your kidneys. A kidney infection requires prompt medical attention. If not treated properly, a kidney infection can permanently damage your kidneys or spread to your bloodstream and More >
3 Pneumonia Nursing Care Plans
Pneumonia is a serious infection that affects the air sacs in the lungs, resulting to significant reduction in oxygenation. Because of this, the oxygen will have difficulty reaching the blood. If there is too little oxygen in the blood, body cells cannot work properly. As a result, infection will spread.
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