Patient was educated on how to care for shunt in dialysis patients as follows: Do not lift more than 10 lbs. weight with the arm you have the shunt on. Do not use the arm that you have the shunt on for blood pressure recordings, blood draws, starting any intravenous medications, PICC line placements, or parenteral nutrition. Increasing the pressure on the shunt arm can result in bursting of the shunt and severe hemorrhage. Change [...]
Patient was educated on risk factors affecting urine retention as follows: Enlarged prostate Prostate is a small gland in males, located between the bladder and penis. The urethra draining the urine out from the bladder passes through the center of the prostate into the penis and drains the urine out. Any enlargement of prostate will press onto the urethra draining the urine from bladder and results in backup of urine in the bladder. Poorly managed [...]
Patient was educated on acute renal failure as follows: Acute renal failure is a condition that arises from failure of kidneys that develops very rapidly in an individual. This condition evolves in a span of few hours to days. This condition leads to acute loss of kidney’s ability to eliminate excess water, electrolytes, and wastes from the body. Acute failure to eliminate excess water from the body leads to sudden buildup of fluid level in [...]
Patient was educated on diabetes insipidus and its signs and symptoms as follows: Diabetes insipidus is a condition in which the individual produces excessive urine volume, secondary to increased loss of water in the urine, resulting in urine that is very dilute. In individuals with diabetes insipidus, the production of vasopressin is either reduced or the kidneys are not responsive to the vasopressin produced in the body. Consequently, water reabsorption in the kidney tubules is [...]
Patient was educated on Antidiuretic Hormone (ADH) or vasopressin and its actions as follows: ADH or vasopressin is a hormone released by the pituitary gland in the brain. This hormone has the following functions in the human body: This hormone acts on the renal tubules and helps with reabsorption of water in the kidney. By reabsorbing water in the kidneys, this hormone reduces the loss of water from the body and so, result in concentrated [...]