Description
ou see a 3-year-old with hypertension (documented on three different visits) in your primary care clinic.
- Describe the workup, differential diagnoses, assessment, and management.
- How would your plan of care be different if the child were 10 years old?
- What risk factor counseling and advice would you include?
Submission Instructions:
- Your initial post should be at least 500 words, formatted and cited in current APA style with support from at least 2 academic sources.
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Module 6 Discussion: Approaches to Disease Management
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Module 6 Discussion: Approaches to Disease Management
Though most hypertension cases occur in adults, the disorder has also been found to
present in pediatrics. This paper elucidates the approaches to hypertension management in a 3year-old.
Managing 3-Year-Old with Hypertension
The first visit would entail obtaining a comprehensive history and objective data to create
a diagnosis baseline. The composite assessment rationale is because hypertension in younger
children is frequently connected to other disorders, such as hormonal, genetic, kidney problems,
or heart defects. The questions to probe would include nose bleeding, fever, seating,
developmental issues, hematuria, and history of an umbilical vein or artery catheterization during
infancy. The differential diagnosis to...
