Can anyone give me the pathophysiology of pleural effusion?

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plss...i need it...

i am having a hard time constructing one since i'm just an incoming 3rd year student...

the cause of the pleural effusion is CHF...

pathophysiology plss...Ü:confused::scrying:

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Try Google. 260,000 choices:D

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Gosh...let me see if I can remember. The heart isn't pumping effectively, blood backs up from the left atrium into the lungs. Pressure increses in the pulmonary venous system....bladdy blah...fluid in the lungs.

That's about all I'm willing to give you. Being that it took me all of 5 seconds to look up what I didn't remember. Google! Or your pathophys book will help.

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Gosh...let me see if I can remember. The heart isn't pumping effectively, blood backs up from the left atrium into the lungs. Pressure increses in the pulmonary venous system....bladdy blah...fluid in the lungs.

That's about all I'm willing to give you. Being that it took me all of 5 seconds to look up what I didn't remember. Google! Or your pathophys book will help.

thank you! at least i already have an idea...i don't have any pathophys book...that is why I am having a hard time...I'm still on my second year..pathophys will be studied on our third yr...

thank you again...Ü

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I am confused:clown:

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I am confused:clown:

why?? hehe....Ü

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Wouldn't it have been easier to Google this to begin with, rather than having to complete the allnurses registration, post a thread, and then wait for a reply? I am just not to keen on "homework" questions! Goodluck with your research.

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Specializes in ED.

google, you can find so much info just using the internet. Try to use reliable sources but you will get a good idea. If you don't have the book yet, why are you required to know this? just wondering....

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Wouldn't it have been easier to Google this to begin with, rather than having to complete the allnurses registration, post a thread, and then wait for a reply? I am just not to keen on "homework" questions! Goodluck with your research.

you think i didn't googled it?? isn't that being judgemental...I've been searching this since yesterday...the reason i registered in here is that i was hoping that someone could help me...and i'm not just waiting for replies...i am also searching...or googl-ing...you can't even see me...how can you say that i'm just waiting for replies??

anyway, i'm not forcing you to give me the answer...and i'm not expecting that somebody would give me the exact answer to this problem...

and if you're not keen about "homework" questions...you should've just ignored my post...

everybody needs help...you know...

i'm sorry if i am being disrespectful...Ü

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google, you can find so much info just using the internet. Try to use reliable sources but you will get a good idea. If you don't have the book yet, why are you required to know this? just wondering....

well...i think they want us to do advanced reading about pathophysio..so that we will have an idea on how to do it..so when third year comes it wont be that difficult because we already have the idea...i think..

actually, we are doing the whole comprehensive nursing process...

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A lot of threads are posted asking for homework answers. That is not really what allnurses is for. But like I said, goodluck with your research.

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the problem, Pihay82, is that allnurses.com is not really an appropriate search engine for looking up exactly what your "healthcare 2" classroom instructor is looking for, or whatever class you are taking. It is very late in the summer semester already, and I am surprised that at this stage, you are asking for something as rudimentary as a "pathophysiology" of pleural effusion. I am baffled that you wouldn't just do as suggested by the other posters, but to show how easy it really is to do for yourself, here goes.... In the future, feel free to substitute "pleural effusion" with "tuberculosis", "diabetes melitus" or "any other disease" when searching "google"... it really works..

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pleural_effusion

http://www.emedicine.com/emerg/topic462.htm

http://www.nlm.nih.gov/medlineplus/ency/article/000086.htm

http://www.healthatoz.com/healthatoz/Atoz/common/standard/transform.jsp?requestURI=/healthatoz/Atoz/ency/pleural_effusion.jsp

also, you might want to post these kinds of questions in the appropriate "student" sections of this forum, or even better, on the "Philippine" International nurse forum, since there might be people there asking the same sorts of questions. (Mods, correct me if I am wrong here about TOS on the other boards.)

I see this going on a) in my classroom all the time and b) popping up now and then around here... GET A BOOK, THEY HELP!!

welcome.

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