This case involves a 75-year-old female patient with a medical history of atrial fibrillation who was admitted to a skilled nursing facility for long-term care. In addition to her atrial fibrillation, the patient was also suffering from a number of other…
This case takes place in New Jersey and involves an elderly female patient with atrial fibrillation who was admitted to a skilled nursing facility. Diagnoses on admission were diabetes, Parkinson’s disease, and hypertension. Due to the patient’s atrial fibrillation, Coumadin…
This case involves a seventy-two-year-old female with a past medial history degenerative disc disease for which she occasionally took analgesia prescribed to her by her primary care physician. The woman’s family began to notice a change in the patient’s mental…
This case involves a seventy-two-year-old male, with a medical history of Parkinson’s disease, who presented to the emergency room after sustaining a deep laceration to his leg. The patient was admitted and over the next few days, the leg became…
The patient had a history of COPD and mild dementia but his family stated that he was generally alert, communicative, and social with friends at the nursing home. The patient was taken to a local hospital for an exacerbation of…
