CASE STUDY:
Chief Complain: Burning on urination
HPI: DT is a 10-year-old AA female who presents to the clinic with his mom complains of dysuria with frequent episodes of enuresis in a week. Pt. stated she started experiencing these symptoms of going to the bathroom most frequently and suddenly, sometimes she will even lose control of urine before she can even reach the bathroom, pain while urinating, pt. stated her urine smells foul and sometimes she feels pain above his pubic bone. Pt. mentioned it burns when she urinates and had not taken anything OTC or any prescription medications. Pt. is afebrile and denies vomiting, alcohol, tobacco, recreational drugs, or being sexually active. Pt. stated pain as 5 out of 10 on the scale of 0-10 nothing makes the pain better or worse. Pt. is very active at school and plays on her school gymnastics team and stated she is doing well in her class. Pt. lives with her mom who is a single middle-class working mother with two younger siblings.
To prepare:â¯
Review the Focused Note Checklist provided in this weekâs Learning Resources and consider how you will develop your Focused Note for this weekâs Assignment.
Use the Focused SOAP Note Template found in the Learning Resources for this week to complete this Assignment.â¯
Select a patient with a gastrointestinal or genitourinary condition that you examined during the last 3 weeks. With this patient in mind, address the following in a Focused Note.â¯
Assignment
Subjective: What details did the patient or parent provide regarding the personal and medical history? Include any discrepancies between the details provided by the child and details provided by the parent as well as possible reasons for these discrepancies.
Objective: What observations did you make during the physical assessment? Include pertinent positive and negative physical exam findings. Describe whether the patient presented with any growth and development or psychosocial issues.
Assessment: What were your differential diagnoses? Provide a minimum of three possible diagnoses. List them from highest priority to lowest priority and include their ICD-10 codes for the diagnosis. What was your primary diagnosis and why?
Plan: What was your plan for diagnostics and primary diagnosis? What was your plan for treatment and management? Include pharmacologic and non-pharmacologic treatments, alternative therapies, and follow-up parameters as well as a rationale for this treatment and management plan.
Reflection notes: What was your âahaâ moment? What would you do differently in a similar patient evaluation?
CASE STUDY: Chief Complain: Burning on urination HPI: DT is a 10-year-old AA fem
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