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An adult jaundice patient will be treated with a special diet and also with light therapy.
The statutes (A.R.S. § 12-2297) require a physician to retain the original or copies of a patient's medical records for a minimum of six years past the last visit if the patient is an adult. If the patient is a child, a doctor must maintain the records until the child is 21 or for at least six years past the last patient visit - whichever is longer.
Patient confidentiality would prevent him from doing that.
Physician's estimate the volume of fluid lost in a severely burned patient by using the rule of nines. This is a formula for estimating the percentage of adult body surface covered by burns by assigning 9% to the head and each arm, twice 9% (18%) to each leg and the anterior and posterior trunk, and 1% to the perineum. This is modified in infants and children because of the proportionately larger head size.
It's not really a medical term; instead, it's a shorthand for a billing code for the visit. The patient was an adult established patient, and the visit was a short one.
A slight temp. If it runs 100.1 or more you need to see you physician.
V85.42 is the ICD 9 code for adult BMI of 46.9
10 gtts in adult... 20 mgtts in pedia
If the core temperature is that low then the patient is approaching hypothermia.
1.8 ml in gluteal muscle
sitting position
It depends on the patient. For an adult patient anything less than 200 ml is ok. However, for a patient such as a child, their feeding is much less. You should never have more residual than what the last feeding was. Consequently, in an adult, that would be OK, and you can continue with the next feeding.