Module 6 Case Study 6.13 Study guides, Class notes & Summaries

Module 6 - Case Study 6.13 Lila Hayes is an 84-year-old woman who exhibits back pain and a cut on her head when entering the ED. She tells the ED physician that she fell in her kitchen, hurt her back, and banged her head. She tells her orthopedic surgeon that she knows she has "weak bones" and is taking calcium and vitamin D supplements. Plain x-ray images reveal compression fractures of T8-T9, along with herniation of the disk between T9 and T10. Later her physician order...

Module 6 - Case Study 6.13 Lila Hayes is an 84-year-old woman who exhibits back pain and a cut on her head when entering the ED. She tells the ED physician that she fell in her kitchen, hurt her back, and banged her head. She tells her orthopedic surgeon that she knows she has "weak bones" and is taking calcium and vitamin D supplements. Plain x-ray images reveal compression fractures of T8-T9, along with herniation of the disk between T9 and T10. Later her physician order...

Module 6 - Case Study 6.13 Lila Hayes is an 84-year-old woman who exhibits back pain and a cut on her head when entering the ED. She tells the ED physician that she fell in her kitchen, hurt her back, and banged her head. She tells her orthopedic surgeon that she knows she has "weak bones" and is taking calcium and vitamin D supplements. Plain x-ray images reveal compression fractures of T8-T9, along with herniation of the disk between T9 and T10. Later her physician order...