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You are an adult medical-surgical nurse on a medical trip with your hospital to Indonesia. While there, you meet a woman named Nani, a 35-year-old woman who was previously healthy, although she looks like she has aged well into her 50s. She has come to you because her village doctors have told her she has malaria. She is breathing heavily, very sweaty with a high fever, achy, and shaking. Her eyes are slightly yellow in color, but you are unsure if this is related or unrelated to her current illness. She has been sick for a little over a week, and has gone through several cycles of feeling better for a couple days before the fever, sweating, and chills broke out again. She tells you that the village doctors tried to treat her with a combination of a mosquito paste with a root you have never heard of, but they were apparently unsuccessful. You have a portable serological testing kit, and you confirm the diagnosis with a drop of blood from Nani’s finger.
-If Nani refuses treatment,or treatment is not successful,what may be the ultimate cause of death?

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Please read the clinical scenario, and then answer the question that follow to become familiar with the traditional NCLEX question format.
 You are an adult medical-surgical nurse on a medical trip with your hospital to Indonesia. While there, you meet a woman named Nani, a 35-year-old woman who was previously healthy, although she looks like she has aged well into her 50s. She has come to you because her village doctors have told her she has malaria. She is breathing heavily, very sweaty with a high fever, achy, and shaking. Her eyes are slightly yellow in color, but you are unsure if this is related or unrelated to her current illness. She has been sick for a little over a week, and has gone through several cycles of feeling better for a couple days before the fever, sweating, and chills broke out again. She tells you that the village doctors tried to treat her with a combination of a mosquito paste with a root you have never heard of, but they were apparently unsuccessful. You have a portable serological testing kit, and you confirm the diagnosis with a drop of blood from Nani’s finger. 
-If Nani refuses treatment,or treatment is not successful,what may be the ultimate cause of death?

Quizplus · Accepted Answer

If Nani refuses treatment or if treatment is not successful, the ultimate cause of death may be multiorgan failure. Malaria is a parasitic infection that can lead to severe complications, including organ failure, if left untreated or not successfully treated. Malaremia is not a recognized medical term. Kaposi's sarcoma and endocarditis are not related to malaria.

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