Question

create a case study from acute pancreatitis.
the paper should include the following:

-An introduction
-A scenario involving a patient with acute pancreatitis
- pathophysiology of the disease.
-Etiology of the disease
- risk factors
- laboratory/diagnostic test to diagnose the disease
-prognosis of the disease
- medical interventions to treat the disease
-nursing interventions.
-3 complete nursing diagnosis for the patient in bullet form.
-3 complete nursing outcomes pertaining to the nursing diagnosis in bullet form.
-subheading.
-a conclusion
- references no older than 10 years old
- references must be obtained from scholarly work nothing from wiki or a.com
-must be 5 pages or 1375 words excluding cover sheets and reference page

Answer 1

Acute pancreatitis

• This is a serious condition of acute abdomen that occurs that due to inflammation of pancreas.

Pathophysiology

• The disease is characterized by severe pain in the epigastric or periumblical region that often radiates to back.
• The physiological alteration in the disease is the activation of trypsin inside the pancreatic tissue that causes autodigestion of the gland.
• Trypsin also activates phospholipase -A2 which forms lysolecithin from fatty acid of lecithin.
• Lysolecithin damages pancreatic tissues and produces necrosis of surrounding fat.
• In severe case hemorrhage occur into abdominal cavity.

Etiology

• The common cause of acute pancreatitis are gall stone causing obstruction of sphincter of oddi,chronic alcoholism,hypertriglyceridemia,blunt abdominal trauma and drugs like azathiprine,sulfonamides,tetracycline,valproic acid etc.

Diagnosis

Acute pancreatitis is diagnosed by its typical presentation of abdominal pain associated with increased plasma level of serum amylase.

Treatment

• In 90% patients symptoms disappear with conservative treatment with IV fluid,analgesics antibiotics and nasogastric suction.
• In severe cases especially in hemorrhagic form, abdomen is opened and blood is collected from abdominal cavity of the patient and filtered, abdomen is thoroughly washed,bleeding points are closed,and filtered blood is transfused.