CASE STUDY: Nelson Amoah, 54-year-old male presents to the emergency department with abdominal pain, nausea, vomiting, abdominal distension and constipation which started 3 days prior to presentation. He denied fever, chills and headache. Except for peptic ulcer disease, he is otherwise healthy with no previous surgeries. He is a smoker, smoking a little less than a pack a day for twenty-two years. On examination he was afebrile, with a heart rate of 120 beats/min, blood pressure 130/80 mmHg and respiratory rate of 22 cycles/min. Abdominal examination revealed mild distension with generalized guarding and marked rebound tenderness in the epigastrium. There were no palpable masses and bowel sounds were absent. Erect and supine abdominal and chest radiographs were normal. However, abdominal ultrasonography revealed free fluid throughout the abdomen and pelvis. a. State at least FIVE questions that you would ask in analyzing Mr. Amoah’s pain
CASE STUDY: Nelson Amoah, 54-year-old male presents to the emergency department with abdominal pain, nausea, vomiting, abdominal distension and constipation which started 3 days prior to presentation. He denied fever, chills and headache. Except for peptic ulcer disease, he is otherwise healthy with no previous surgeries. He is a smoker, smoking a little less than a pack a day for twenty-two years. On examination he was afebrile, with a heart rate of 120 beats/min, blood pressure 130/80 mmHg and respiratory rate of 22 cycles/min. Abdominal examination revealed mild distension with generalized guarding and marked rebound tenderness in the epigastrium. There were no palpable masses and bowel sounds were absent. Erect and supine abdominal and chest radiographs were normal. However, abdominal ultrasonography revealed free fluid throughout the abdomen and pelvis.
a. State at least FIVE questions that you would ask in analyzing Mr. Amoah’s pain
b. Identify all;
i. subjective data
ii. objective data
iii. past health history
iv. psychosocial history
c. State FOUR systems that may be assessed when performing review of systems based on Mr. Amoah’s presentation
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