NURSING 2LA2 Lecture Notes - Lecture 8: Edema, Abdominal Pain, Cirrhosis
2 Sep 2018
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Brain: skull is an enclosed space with little room for extra fluid, cerebral edema is life. Infections/trauma both which initiate an inflammatory response. threatening: signs include, headache, altered loc, coma, abnormal pupil size, or reflexive response, changes in patterns of respiration, and changes in muscle tone and abnormal posturing. Airway: swelling of the airway, acute life-threatening condition, due to inflammatory response to allergens or microorganisms, difficulty swallowing, anxiety, stridor, and airway obstruction and asphyxia. Increased intravascular hydrostatic pressure which results when the portal vein is affected by liver cirrhosis or due to an inflammatory response to an abdominal tumor or pancreatitis. Increase in abdominal girth and protruding umbilicus: abdominal discomfort and the accumulation of fluid causes sob. Intestines: third space loss of fluid inside the lumen and wall of the intestine if the intestine is obstructed. Peripheral edema: obstruction of venous blood flow which increases capillary hydrostatic pressure or to obstruction in lymphatic drainage.
