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My instructor wants me to make a report on this and turn it in, in the morning.
Ok i took care of a male today dx: pneumonia. well he was taking 10 MeQ of potassium and refused b/c he said it hurt his stomach. so no dose of that today. he went and had a BM and then sitting on the edge of bed when i walked in leaned over bed table obviously in pain and saying his stomach hurt so i gave him a hydro PRN. went on lunch came back and his regular nurse gave him zofran IVP b/c hes been vomiting and has a rigid abdomen that wasnt there when i done an assessment 2 hours prior. the hospitalist came in there and wanted an ultrasound and his nurse told me they thought he had a hot abdomen...
Ok, I asked my instructor what that was and she said what do you think? I told her hell, I dont know. so she asked his symptoms. well rigid abdomen, vomiting, cramping that's it.
she wanted me to look online to see what a hot abdomen was and tell her in the morning. No such luck, I have searched it every which way, nothing.
Hot abdomen, what is it? any website i can look at