ashleylea

My school is the same! I just had an assignment that was near impossible to figure out. It was med school material. I will lose sleep over that assignment :/

I turned "something" in. I literally put something along the lines of the liver and brain lost water and need water to function. The brain shrunk ...blah blah blah. Scott needs saline solutions...The end!! LOL. We have one more of these " Problem based learning" assignments. I can only imagine what the next one will be like! Thanks for your inputs! I had a good laugh :)

I am not even in the dental hygiene program yet! This is a prerequisite to apply for the program! I am at a community college. I am familiar with dental and oral pathology because I was a dental assistant in the military for 6 years. She obviously wanted us to think outside the box because she intentionally put flaws in the scenario to see if we could spot them. This was way out of my league. Although it will hurt my grade and my pride, I will probably take a zero for this. I will e-mail her why. I've never not turned in an assignment but I can't even BS these type of answers. Thank you all so very much for your input and letting me know that after 11 hours of trying to find the answers, I am not crazy! God Bless you all! Funny thing is, she told us this was a real case that one of her friends had sent her :/

It's worth 50 points so that's why I'm stressing out about it. I've looked at scholarly journals, I've asked on yahoo answers and I've asked a tutor with no luck!

From my 11 hours of research all I have come up with is the organs are lacking water and the brain shrinks?? The patient is dehydrated so he needs IV fluids. The blood volume had increased and the kidney's are working harder to eliminate the sugar? But my professor wants details and I don't know them.

It's only A&P I and second week of class :/

Dental hygienist. It is a complicating scenario. Nothing we've went over. I have no healthcare experience so this is like a foreign language to me. It is a quiz grade but I'm considering taking a loss for this one. I can't even pretend or make up an answer!

This info in not in our textbook. It's more of a research question but I have been researching for 11 hours and not have found any info other than that he needs IV fluids. I have no healthcare knowledge and I have no friends or family that are nurses or doctors so that's why I joined here. No harm intended.

I am not a nurse but I knew this would be the perfect place to ask help with my anatomy homework. My teacher told our class it would be easier to ask someone in the health professional career field if we were having trouble with the questions. I hope you guys don't mind! We were given a scenario and have to answer two questions in great detail. I've been working on these for 11 hours but came up with nothing. Scott, an overweight, unconscious 10-year-old boy is rushed to the ER by his father at 7:00 a.m. Upon first examination the boy appears comatose. He has a very low blood pressure (80 over 50) and a rapid heart rate (120 bpm), classic signs of hypovolumic shock. A quick oral history indicates that the boy has recently been diagnosed with type-2 diabetes, has been put on a low carb diet, and prescribed twice-daily insulin injections. Scott was non-responsive when the father tried to wake him for school. Additional oral history is that Scott was at his Grandma Louise's house yesterday evening from supper time until 11:00 p.m Grandma Louise swears Scott only had a plate of spaghetti and garlic bread but no sweets and she gave him a syringe of insulin right before dinner. Since he doesn't like shots, she let him take the insulin orally. She also thinks he may have a bladder infection since he was in the bathroom a lot last night "Passing water". She gave him several glasses of cranberry juice cocktail to help. *Emergency room diagnosis is nonketotic hyperglycemic-hyperosmolar coma Q: Consider both the changes in blood pressure and osmolarity and discuss what is happening to organs such as the liver and brain. Q: To stabilize Scott's condition, choose between fluid treatment( IV solutions) and insulin treatment and why?