Forty-nine–year-old Frank has been a heavy drinker for the past 25 years. He also has a history of hypertension, hyperlipidemia, and recent upper respiratory viral infection. Frank’s only current medication is Lasix (furosemide) 40 mg od. He presents with severe epigastric pain that radiates to his back and worsens when lying down. His abdomen is distended, and bowel sounds are hypoactive. Frank has a fever and is diaphoretic and hypotensive, and his serum calcium is very low.
In your initial post answer the following questions:

Frank is being transferred to the ICU. If you were the ICU nurse, what would you have to consider in Frank’s case?

What would you expect in the way of treatment modalities for Frank?

As frank is a chronic drinker and symptoms match the diagnosis of Acute pancreatitis,

I would consider that frank is suffering from pancreatitis.

Treatment modalities:

As management of pancreatitis is directed towards relieving symptoms and preventing or treating complications

- Adequate administration of analgesia

- ill patient is maintained on bed rest to decrease the metabolic rate and reduce the secretion of pancreatic and gastric enzymes

- maintain semifowlers position to decrease pressure on diaphragm by distended abdomen and to increase respiratory expansion.

- patient is at risk for akin breakdown because of poor nutritional status, enforced bed rest and restlessness, so the nurse carefully assess for akin breakdown and infection

Explanation:

to prevent people from getting the ebola virus, countries around the world paid to doctors develop a new vaccine. now that the vaccine has been made, doctors will need to experiment on a large number of people to find out if it works safely.

what is the greatest limitation that scientists are dealing with as they try to figure out how to experiment with the ebola vaccine?

meditation is a practice of sitting still and quiet for minutes or even hours. it has been practiced for thousands of years and is even a part of religious practices for some people. carefully controlled, repeated measurements of brain activity have shown that meditation does increase certain chemicals in the brain and even grows the part of the brain that people connect with their current surroundings and activities.

are claims about the effects of meditation most likely scientific or pseudoscientific?

not pseudoscientific, because people have made claims about it but scientific observations have not been made