Hyperthermia - NCP for DHF
Nursing Care Plan for DHF
Dengue Hemorrhagic Fever (DHF) is a disease caused by viruses mainly transmitted by Aedes aegypti (a type of mosquito), though other species of mosquito can also transmit this disease. DHF is popularly known as the "break-bone disease" because most of its victims suffer from muscle and joint pain.
DHF can manifest as bleeding patches on the skin, bleeding from the nose or gums, bleeding from the gastro-intestinal tract and heavy vaginal bleeding. Severe internal bleeding can lead to serious circulatory collapse and shock.
Diagnosis of dengue should be done promptly because the disease may progress so fast that saving the life of the patient may be impossible. This is harder than most would have thought because the first signs and symptoms of DHF are not symptom-specific.
In most patients, the fever usually settles with treatment within 7 to 8 days. Patients with DHF require hospital admission in order to prevent complications like circulatory collapse and death. In such patients, survival is related directly to early hospitalization and aggressive, supportive care.
Nursing Diagnosis for DHF
Hyperthermia related to the dengue virus infection.
Goal: Hyperthermia can be resolved
Expected outcomes: body temperature returned to normal
Intervention
1) Observation vital signs, especially temperature.
2) Give cold compress (water) on the forehead and armpits.
3) Change clothes that have been soaked with sweat.
4) Encourage the family to put on clothing that can absorb sweat like cotton.
5) Encourage your family to drink lots of approximately 1500 to 2000 cc per day.
6) collaboration with doctors in Therapy, febrifuge.
Dengue Hemorrhagic Fever (DHF) is a disease caused by viruses mainly transmitted by Aedes aegypti (a type of mosquito), though other species of mosquito can also transmit this disease. DHF is popularly known as the "break-bone disease" because most of its victims suffer from muscle and joint pain.
DHF can manifest as bleeding patches on the skin, bleeding from the nose or gums, bleeding from the gastro-intestinal tract and heavy vaginal bleeding. Severe internal bleeding can lead to serious circulatory collapse and shock.
Diagnosis of dengue should be done promptly because the disease may progress so fast that saving the life of the patient may be impossible. This is harder than most would have thought because the first signs and symptoms of DHF are not symptom-specific.
In most patients, the fever usually settles with treatment within 7 to 8 days. Patients with DHF require hospital admission in order to prevent complications like circulatory collapse and death. In such patients, survival is related directly to early hospitalization and aggressive, supportive care.
Nursing Diagnosis for DHF
Hyperthermia related to the dengue virus infection.
Goal: Hyperthermia can be resolved
Expected outcomes: body temperature returned to normal
Intervention
1) Observation vital signs, especially temperature.
2) Give cold compress (water) on the forehead and armpits.
3) Change clothes that have been soaked with sweat.
4) Encourage the family to put on clothing that can absorb sweat like cotton.
5) Encourage your family to drink lots of approximately 1500 to 2000 cc per day.
6) collaboration with doctors in Therapy, febrifuge.
