NSB236 - Case Study: Clinical Deterioration & Nursing Interventions

This case study examines the clinical deterioration of a patient, Adam, focusing on signs and symptoms reported by family members and their connection to the patient's asthma diagnosis. It identifies shivering and feeling cold as key symptoms, linking them to the pathophysiology of a compromised immune system. The study prioritizes addressing these symptoms and discusses evidence-based interventions, such as providing warmth and monitoring for seizures. The importance of adequate nutrition and close monitoring by family members is highlighted, with an emphasis on the role of healthcare professionals in providing appropriate care and knowledge. The case study uses contemporary research to support the justification of the identified priority problem and the efficacy of the proposed interventions. Desklib provides access to similar case studies and solved assignments for students.

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INTRODUCTION
The deteriorating patients are those that are being attacked by severe health problems and are
monitored regularly by the Healthcare professionals. This monitoring is oriented in such a way
that they will get total orientation as well as the diagnosis that is in regard to their health
condition. This deteriorating patient is considered to be one of the crucial components of the
entity in Healthcare industry because they will have to be properly monitored and will have to be
provided with the utmost care that is in regard to their condition (Wilkerson and et.al, 2020).
Their condition will usually vary according to the internal stability that is in view of their health
problem. Patients of this kind whose health is getting deteriorated on a day-to-day basis will have
to be properly initiated by another person or a Health Care professional that would provide them
with the right amount of knowledge.
MAIN BODY
Signs and symptoms of clinical deterioration
In the case study of Adam where it was highlighted that the person is suffering from asthma and
the diagnosis is usually made up on all the circumstances that were observed by people all
around. Asthma is a very critical condition where a person's respiratory system is mostly affected
and therefore that will again lead to a probability of breathlessness. This condition is being
portrayed by various circumstances and there are certain symptoms that will fall in regard to
identifying the choices that are present in a person (Guo and et.al, 2020). The immune system of
a person is being examined in this particular aspect as a part of pathophysiology and where the
professionals usually diagnosed based on the little chills that usually occur in the person. In
Adams case study it has been portrayed that the family member has come across two symptoms
which are depicted by cold body and the shivering prospects. Both symptoms were detected in
such a way that has paved way for the analysis as well as the diagnosis. The shivering is caused
by the internal immune system problem and that will have to be cured with proper medication as
well as a service that will have to be added to the person (Edwards-Leeper and et.al, 2017). The
kind of service that can be put forth as a part of path of physiology is to provide the simulators
that will inhibit the warmth that is required for body to absorb. This is a major necessity because
the immune system is very poor in its functioning that it gets function in a wrong sense and that
will be portrayed upon various means of bringing about chills in the person. Sometimes this will
be such that there is a certainty of seizures that might occur during the possibility of chills. This
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is dangerous to a person's health because they might sometimes take grip over the everything
criteria and that might be a problematic situation for an individual to tackle (Madden, 2019). The
remedy over this can be the food which is taken by the individual and the person of the family
member that is in charge of dealing with the prospect of this case will have to provide with the
right amount and adequate food such that there will be a built-in mechanism with regard to the
warmth that will have to be generated. The remedies that were taken care about by the family
member who is staying beside the person that is suffering from asthma is to make him feel warm
such that the shivering that is taking place can be ceased (Brekke, 2019). By taking the help of a
blanket and covering him with it there is a more chance of reducing these chills and that will
probably result in reducing the cost of that is in regard to the person. The sensation of feeling
cold is because of the improper immune system and that will bring about a kind of shivering
which can be reduced upon squeezing the hand of an individual who is suffering from it. In this
regard Merrill one of the member who is with Adam reportedly stated that she was squeezing his
hand in order to make sure that the seizures that have occurred as a part of the shivering process
were reduced (Coombs and et.al, 2020).
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