Surgical Case Study
In the Surgical Intensive Care Unit lies the alert, awake, and disoriented body of twenty-two year old R. ... ’s case, the cause of his parenchymal hemorrhage was the blow to his head from his ATV accident. ... from the Department of Neurology at the Beth Israel Deaconess Medical Center (2002), seizures, slurred speech, irritability, and abnormal level of consciousness will prompt the physician to order a brain imaging study. ... Surgical Management: The treatment for subdural hematoma depends upon the clinical signs and symptoms, as well as the size of the clot and area of the brain involved. ... “During a craniotomy the surgeon marks with a felt tip pen a large square flap on the scalp that covers the surgical area. ... in the surgical intensive care unit he was already thirty days post-operative and he remained on the ventilator and was unable to breathe without it. ... while I was in the surgical intensive care unit. ... While I was on the surgical floor at Brownsville Medical Center, R. ... Unfortunately, he was transferred back to the surgical intensive care unit because he was not stable enough to be on the surgical floor where the number of patients to nurse is larger.