Question

Case Scenario: Your patient has cardiovascular disease (CVD) and has been admitted with these vitals: BP 190/90, HR 100, RR 35. When asked about symptoms, the patient states, “I have a very bad headache and feel light headed.” History reveals he has had one heart attack three years ago. He is a pack a day smoker and often drinks more than one drink per day. When doing your morning assessment, you find a dime sized wound on his lower leg. The wound is open in the center and red around it. When asked, the patient states his feet and legs are cold much of the time and he no longer walks long distances because of pain in his legs.

2. Question: State three possible reasons for the symptoms you are seeing, giving detail as to why this could be happening for each symptom. You will need to defend your answer using specific facts, data, and other information drawn from the textbook and at least one other supplemental source.

Answer 1

The patient of CVD has a very bad headache and feel light headed because of

• Alcohol, He often drink s more than one drink per day.
• When blood vessels constriction occur in cardiovascular disease, it restrict the blood flow this could lead to the lack of blood in the part of brain.
• When continuous headache occur and it cause the episode strike which increase the blood clotting  
• Heart attack is also the cause of the symptoms with high bp.

Duringthe assessment the symptoms are of cellulitis.  Causes of cellutilis symptoms are

• weak immune system that enhance the invading of microorganism that cause the redness
• injection of the drugs that may be any drug
• lymphoedema is also the the reason. for the symptoms that shows in assesment.

All the reasons for symptoms are mentioned above.