Select one nose, mouth, or neck condition or disorder. Summarize and discuss the clinical characteristics and identify the appropriate laboratory, imaging, and other diagnostic and screening tools that apply to this condition or disorder. Explain why you selected these tests or tools as being appropriate to this process. Support your summary and recommended plan with a minimum of two APRN-approved scholarly resources. You may not select a condition or disorder that has already been profiled by another learner; you must select a different one.

Select one nose, mouth, or neck condition or disorder. Summarize and discuss the clinical characteristics and identify the appropriate laboratory, imaging, and other diagnostic and screening tools that apply to this condition or disorder. Explain why you selected these tests or tools as being appropriate to this process. Support your summary and recommended plan with a minimum of two APRN-approved scholarly resources. You may not select a condition or disorder that has already been profiled by another learner; you must select a different one.

The selected condition is tonsillitis. Tonsillitis is characterized by the inflammation of the tonsils, which are the two oval-shaped tissue pads found at the back of the throat.   Although the condition can occur at any age, it is most common in childhood. The clinical characteristics of tonsillitis can be determined through patient history and examination. From the patient’s history, tonsillitis can be characterized by fever, shortness of breath, halitosis, new-onset snoring, reduced oral intake, and odynophagia, which is manifested by the inability to take liquids orally. The common examination findings of tonsillitis include erythematous palatine tonsils, swollen tonsils, fever, tonsillar exudates, and cervical lymphadenopathy (Kalaiarasi et al., 2018).  The symptom duration differs based on the causative organ but mostly lasts between five to seven days. Symptoms that last more than seven days could be attributed to glandular fever.

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There are various diagnostic and screening tests that can be applied to tonsillitis. The physician can conduct screening tests through various means including the use of a lighted instrument to assess the throat, nose, and ears which are potential sites of infection. Other tests include listening to breathe using a stethoscope, feeling the patient’s neck for swollen glands, checking for spleen enlargement, and checking scarlatina, which is linked to certain cases of strep throat. These screening tests are crucial in determining the possibility of tonsillitis to enable further laboratory tests. The laboratory tests include a complete blood cell count (CBC) and throat swab. The outcome of this CBC is essential in generating a count of various blood cells type. The elevated, normal, and below normal can demonstrate whether the infection is a bacterial or viral agent (Nakao et al., 2018). Regarding the throat swab, the physician rubs a disinfected swab on the back of the throat to obtain a secretions sample. The sample swabbed is placed in a special plate that facilitates the growth of bacteria in the lab. The precise type of infection is established through chemical test. If bacteria do not grow, it implies negative culture and an indication that the person does not have infection (Bhandari et al., 2021). These tools are appropriate because they provide reliable results that help in informing an appropriate plan for diagnosis and treatment.

References

Bhandari, S., Paudel, D. R., & Gurung, K. (2021). Correlation between McIssac Score and Throat Swab Culture in Patient Presenting with Acute Tonsillitis. Journal of Nepalgunj Medical College, 19(2), 57-60. https://doi.org/10.3126/jngmc.v19i2.42994

Kalaiarasi, R., Subramanian, K. S., Vijayakumar, C., & Venkataramanan, R. (2018). Microbiological profile of chronic tonsillitis in the pediatric age group. Cureus, 10(9). doi:10.7759/cureus.3343

Nakao, Y., Tanigawa, T., Kano, F., Tanaka, H., Katahira, N., Ogawa, T.,  & Shibata, R. (2018). Diagnostic role of mean platelet volume in tonsillitis with and without peritonsillar abscess. The Journal of Laryngology & Otology, 132(7), 615-618. https://doi.org/10.1017/S0022215118000658

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Assessment Description
Select one nose, mouth, or neck condition or disorder. Summarize and discuss the clinical characteristics and identify the appropriate laboratory, imaging, and other diagnostic and screening tools that apply to this condition or disorder. Explain why you selected these tests or tools as being appropriate to this process. Support your summary and recommended plan with a minimum of two APRN-approved scholarly resources. You may not select a condition or disorder that has already been profiled by another learner; you must select a different one.

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