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Tuberculosis (TB) is a bacterial infection caused by Mycobacterium tuberculosis that spreads through the air and most often affects the lungs. Many people carry it as latent TB infection, which causes no symptoms and is not contagious; active TB disease causes cough, fever, night sweats, and weight loss and can spread to others. The nursing … See Nursing Diagnoses
Oligohydramnios is too little amniotic fluid for the stage of pregnancy, usually defined on ultrasound as a deepest vertical pocket under 2 cm or an amniotic fluid index (AFI) of 5 cm or less. The most common causes are ruptured membranes, placental insufficiency, a pregnancy past its due date, and fetal kidney or urinary tract … See Nursing Diagnoses
Polyhydramnios is too much amniotic fluid around the fetus, diagnosed on ultrasound after 20 weeks when the amniotic fluid index (AFI) is 24 cm or more or the deepest vertical pocket is 8 cm or more. Most mild cases have no known cause, but diabetes, fetal anomalies that affect swallowing, multiple pregnancy, and fetal anemia … See Nursing Diagnoses
Malaria is a parasitic infection of the red blood cells caused by Plasmodium species and spread by the bite of infected female Anopheles mosquitoes. Any fever in a person who has been in a malaria area is malaria until proven otherwise, because P. falciparum can become severe within hours. The nursing diagnoses used most often … See Nursing Diagnoses
Pantoprazole (Protonix) is a proton pump inhibitor (PPI) that lowers stomach acid by blocking the final step of acid production in the stomach’s parietal cells. It is used for GERD and erosive esophagitis, Zollinger-Ellison syndrome, and, by provider order, peptic ulcer disease, upper GI bleeding, and stress ulcer prophylaxis. Key nursing considerations are giving it … See Nursing Diagnoses