NURSING

Case Scenario: Nursing

Case Scenario: Nursing

Answer the following questions:

Discuss post-operative complications associated with orthopedic surgery?

Orthopedic surgery, which is most commonly known as 'Orthopeadic' in British English. It is a branch of surgery which deals with the musculoskeletal system of the body. Branch of surgery concerned to amend, or calendar, or repair distortions, these distortions produced some of the factors that may affect the body and is still in the process of the fetus and is most evident at birth, and produces some of the other injuries, or acquired diseases affecting the body. And distortions important within the scope of orthopedic surgery; dislocation back to the hip joint, and scoliosis, and the distortions resulting from polio, or injuries of birth and distortions resulting from the inflammatory bone and joints, acute or chronic conditions such as tuberculosis of the joints and other, as well as cases resulting from ill-treatment of some injuries of bones and joints, such as dislocation, fractures, and is used to correct these distortions, or to treat many ways, including treatment by hand and athletic movements, and the use of special devices for the parties or the trunk and perform many of the surgical precision on the bones, or joints, tendons, and perhaps on the nerves and skin (Health & Science, 2010).

Trauma surgery and almost inseparable from the fractures surgery and the presence of specialty medicine orthopedist who does not practice medicine, but only splinting bone fractures. The musculoskeletal system injuries include neck fractures, knee injuries, sports injuries etc. Ms. Wells's injury belongs to the 'E4' category of the orthopedic Strategy. Like any surgical procedure, the establishment of a total hip replacement is at risk (or complications). These complications are rare but should not be ignored. Risk of dislocation is the first and the foremost risk associated with any orthopedic surgery, Luxation (dislocation of your implant), occurs in favor of extreme movement. During your rehabilitation physiotherapist will teach you the movements to avoid with your hip replacement.

Either there is a posterior dislocation (the femoral head dislocated back). They occur more frequently when the surgical approach was posterior.

Either there is a anterior dislocation, the hip dislocated forward.

Infection is the most feared complication in orthopedic surgery. It can occur following the operation, but also remotely. Remote intervention, which is a bacterium from the blood, may be attached to the prosthesis and cause an infection of the prosthesis. And, finally, as the prosthesis is an inert material, the blood will happen not in contact with the germ, antibiotics will not be fully effective. The only way to effectively treat the infection will, in addition to heavy antibiotic treatment, to change the entire prosthesis. There are complications common to all surgery: anesthetic complications, failures and poor results, joint stiffness, problems with healing. Giving the right amount of Anesthesia is very important.

Discuss Ms. Wells's specific risk factors for post-operative complications?

The most important risk factor of post operative complication. As discussed in the case that Ms Well is 71 years old so ...