Assignment Task:
Pulmonary embolism care map S.K., a 51-year-old roofer, was admitted to the hospital 3 days ago after falling 15 feet from a roof. He sustained bilateral fractured wrists and an open fracture of the left tibia and fibula. He was taken to surgery for open reduction internal fixation (ORIF) of all of his fractures. He is recovering in your orthopedic unit. You have instructions to begin getting him out of bed and into the chair today. When you enter the room to get S.K. into the chair, you notice that he is agitated and dyspneic. He says to you, "My chest hurts really badly. I can't breathe." You auscultate S.K.'s breath sounds. You find that they are diminished in the left lower lobe (LLL). S.K. is diaphoretic and tachypneic and has circumoral cyanosis. His apical pulse is irregular and 110 beats/min. Need Online Tutoring?