Admission Orders - Practice

 

 

Using the following history and physical, please write the admission orders. When you finish compare your orders to the following set of orders.

 

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Background Information:

 

CC: This 54 year old male presents with a cough

 

HPI: The patient has noticed a severe cough for one week. It is productive of green phlegm. He has noted fevers to 102 degrees.

 

PMH: Never been hospitalized. Long-standing hypertension and increased cholesterol.

 

MEDS: Lipitor - 10 mg po qd and Dyazide - one tablet po qd

 

Allergies: None

Smoking: 1 ppd

Alcohol: None

Family History: Negative

Social History: Married, 2 children, works as a carpenter.

ROS: Otherwise negative.

 

Physical Exam: Adult male with a cough and mild shortness of breath.

Vitals: BP. - 140/80 Pulse - 90 Temp - 39 degrees C

 

HEENT - Dry mucous membranes

Neck - supple

Lungs - dullness to percussion on left chest, crackles in left lower lobe.

Heart - Normal S1 and S2, no S3, S4 or mummur

Abdoman - soft, good bowls sounds, non-tender, no organomegaly

Genital/Rectal - no testicular masses, no prostate

Neuro - normal reflexes, no lateralizing weakness

 

Problem List:

  1. Productive cough

  2. Increased cholesterol

  3. Hypertension

 

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