Question

The long-term care facility where you are doing your clinical rotation has had a norovirus outbreak. Your patient VD, a 79 year-old-male with COPD and HTN recently fell ill. He has been vomiting and has had diarrhea for about 48 hours. He has been prescribed a diet of broth and oral rehydration solution, ondansetron for nausea and loperamide for diarrhea. Your preceptor has told you that she is worried that they may need to send M.B to the hospital for oral rehydration.

What signs and symptoms will prompt you to alert your preceptor that VD may need hospitalization?

What are the risks of treating M.B with loperamide?

Answer 1

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