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Overview
This case study will help you practice analyzing a patient record, which will assist you in
preparing for the final project. This case will focus specifically on musculoskeletal and
integumentary drug treatment.
Prompt
Consider the following scenario: Ms. Craft, age 59, was brought by ambulance to the
emergency room because she thought she was dying. She had difficulty breathing, was dizzy
if she attempted to sit up, and felt a sense of impending doom. Ms. Craft assumed that she
was having a heart attack, and so did the admitting emergency room personnel.
But the case was more complicated. Physical examination showed Ms. Craft to have
weakness, malaise, warm skin, and hypotension. Ms. Craft said she felt nauseous. A blood
glucose value was really high. Cardiac markers did not show that she was having a heart
attack, nor did an EKG. When her history was taken, Ms. Craft said she had not seen a doctor
in several years and was unaware that she had diabetes.
Her respirations were deep and rapid—Kussmaul respirations.
In this case, the ER physician diagnosed decompensated diabetes mellitus with metabolic
acidosis. These were the medications prescribed:
Oxygen by mask
Hypertonic IV fluids
Insulin orally
Hydrochloric acid solution via IV
In a short paper, the following critical elements must be addressed:
Identify the incorrect medication/drug classification/treatment and explain why it is incorrect.
What drug classification would you use instead? Why?
Provide an example of a generic medication from each drug classification. How would each
of the medications/treatments in the scenario act on the patient's body?
Support your answer with relevant resources.
What to Submit
Your answers to the questions can be in short-answer or bullet-point form when appropriate.
Use 12-point Times New Roman font, one-inch margins, and APA format for any citations.
Need to do it in 250 - 350 words in apa style add intext citations as well