Running head: SIGNATURE ASSIGNMENT CASE STUDY 1
Signature Assignment Case study
West Coast University
, SIGNATURE ASSIGNMENT CASE STUDY 2
Sarah, a 63-year-old female with a past medical history significant for diabetes mellitus,
cirrhosis, gout, and a 30-pack a year smoking history, presents to the emergency room with chest
pain revealing pericarditis in the echocardiogram, secondary to recently diagnosed end-stage
renal disease. Physical examination reveals yellowish discoloration to the skin and sclera,
multiple bruises, and 2+ bilateral edema. Sarah reports weakness lasting more than three weeks.
Her medications include Glisten, a new drug for diabetes that causes ATP sensitive potassium
channels to close, thereby releasing insulin.
Signature Assignment Case study
West Coast University
, SIGNATURE ASSIGNMENT CASE STUDY 2
Sarah, a 63-year-old female with a past medical history significant for diabetes mellitus,
cirrhosis, gout, and a 30-pack a year smoking history, presents to the emergency room with chest
pain revealing pericarditis in the echocardiogram, secondary to recently diagnosed end-stage
renal disease. Physical examination reveals yellowish discoloration to the skin and sclera,
multiple bruises, and 2+ bilateral edema. Sarah reports weakness lasting more than three weeks.
Her medications include Glisten, a new drug for diabetes that causes ATP sensitive potassium
channels to close, thereby releasing insulin.
