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EPISTAXIS
Nursing manangement
Assist patient in a comfortable position and apply pressure by pinching the anterior portion of the noise for about 10 minutes continously to produce vast contraction that will reduce bleeding
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Causes
Caused by rupture of tiny distended vessels in the mucosa membranes, followed by trauma, infection, foreign bodies drug or nasal tumors
can be cuased by systemic deases like hypertension, blood dyscrasia, atherosclerosis or cardia vascular deases
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Reference
Mogotlane, S. Moshedisi, C. Mokgadi, M. Mokoena, J. Young, A. 2018. Juta’s complete Textbook of Medical Surgical Nursing. Juta. Cape Town