Homlessness Flashcards
What are the essential assessment?
A to E
What was Bills’s A assessment?
- Verbalising intermittently
- No foreign objects in mouth or excessive secretion
- No snoring/stridor
- No mouth or tongue swelling
What was Bill’s B assessment?
- Respiratory rate - 14 breathes per minute
- Oxygen saturation - 90% initially, after 2L oxygen 94%
- No evidence of respiratory distress
- Mild Wheeze
- Smoker
What was Bill’s C assessment?
- Blood pressure - 89/64 mm Hg
- Heart rate - 110bpm regular
- Heart sounds - normal
- 12 lead ECG - sinus tachycardia, nil ischaemic changes
- Peripheral capillary refill brisk bilaterally (>2sec)
- Warm peripheries, look flushed
What are the different types of shock?
- Hypovolemic
- Cardiogenic
- Obstructive
- Distributive
What are the different types of distributive shock?
- Septic
- Anaphylatic
- Neurogenic
What is Bill’s D assessment?
- Blood glucose - 5.7
- Temperature - 38. 2
- Confused (ACVPU) / GCS E3 V4 M5
- Moving 4 limbs normally
- PEARL-3mm
- Smells of alcohol
What is Bill’s E assessment?
- No rashes
- No sites of injection / track marks
- No evidence trauma to limb or head
- No evidence of external bleeding
- Abdominal examination - abdomen distended, tender in left illiac fossa
What is the initial impression?
- Sepsis
- Altered mental state - likely due to sepsis however need to consider alcohol, delirium, drugs and intra cranial pathology
What is the initial plan?
- Sepsis management
- Need to investigate source of sepsis
- CT head to rile out intra cranial pathology
Why could it be sepsis?
- Warm peripheries suggest sepsis
- Cerebral hyperperfusion
- Low BP
- Homeless & was living in a homeless shelter has had frequent infections previously → infection → sepsis
- Has piercings which could suggest infection
- He could have ingested something because his abdomen was distended, slight wheezing etc. - GI tract issues?
- Temperature increased to 38.2 degrees which could suggest sepsis
What is SIRS?
- More than 2 of:
1. Temperature above 38 or below 36
2. Heart rate more than 90 bpm
3. Respiratory rate more than 20
4. WBC count >12x10^9/ L or <4x10^9/L
What is sepsis? What should you do?
- Meets SIRS criteria with evidence of infection
- Blood cultures
What is severe sepsis? What should you do?
- Sepsis with evidence of organ dysfunction, hypotension or hypo-perfusion
- Lactate, urine output
What is septic shock?
Severe sepsis with hypotension despite adequate. fluid resuscitation
What is the sepsis 6?
- Give O2 to keep SATS above 94%
- Take blood cultures
- Give IV antibiotics
- Give a fluid challenge
- Measure Lactate
- Measure urine output
What tests does the doctor order?
- Biochemistry
- Haematology
- Toxicology
- Blood culture
What biochemistry test does the doctor order?
- CRP
- Creatinine
- Urea
- Na
- K
- ALT
- ALP
- GGT
- Bili
- Amylase
- Lactate
What haematology tests does the doctor order>
- Hb
- WCC
- Neut
- PLT
What is the clinical update?
- CT normal
- Blood tests are keeping with sepsis
- Blood cultures sent, IV antibiotic given
- Patient improving clinically with IV antibiotics + IV fluid
- Patient now less confused, reporting severe pain in abdomen
- On examination - patient tender in left illiac fossa, abdomen soft to palpation
What is the plan?
- Analgesia
- CT abdomen/pelvis
- Continue IV fluids and antibiotics
What was his NEWS score?
3 does not require escalation
Which area of colon is most likely affected?
Sigmoid colon / desending colon - but still possible referred pain from other organs (for review of results look at report)
How many quadrants are in the abdomen?
4
How many regions are in the abdomen?
9