Assam Higher Secondary Health Care case studies
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The Higher Secondary Health Care course in Assam is a two-year vocational stream subject taken alongside the general Higher Secondary curriculum under the Assam Higher Secondary Education Council (AHSEC). It suits students who want a grounding in health care before entering nursing, pharmacy, laboratory technology, or community health work, and who prefer applied learning to a purely academic science stream. The Assam Higher Secondary Health Care case studies are 5 cases and about 3,668 words.
1The Feverish Knee and Three Medicines That Do Not Mix
A 68-year-old man attends a rural sub-centre in Nalbari district with fever for two days and a painful, swollen right knee. His medicine card lists enalapril 10 mg twice daily, furosemide 40 mg each morning and metformin 500 mg twice daily.
854 words, about 4 min2A Tight Rope, a Blade Cut and Fifty Minutes of Darkness
in a village in Goalpara district, a 14-year-old boy is carried into the sub-centre about 90 minutes after being bitten on the right ankle while walking through a paddy field. The villagers have tied a plastic rope tightly around his calf, cut the wound with a blade, and applied a green herbal paste.
821 words, about 4 min3Five Hundred Millilitres and Forty Minutes to the Ambulance
A 26-year-old woman, para 2, delivered a 3.1 kg boy at home in a village 12 km from the nearest community health centre at 9:40 p.m. after a four-hour labour conducted by a trained birth attendant.
616 words, about 3 min4A Needle, a Cough and a Sister Who Is Busy
During a busy morning outpatient session at a district hospital in Barpeta, a 21-year-old nursing student recaps a 22-gauge needle after drawing blood from a man admitted with fever, weight loss and a chronic cough. The needle passes through the cap and pierces the pad of her left index finger, and a drop of blood appears at the puncture site.
766 words, about 4 min5Swollen Feet, Rice and Salt, and a Mother Who Will Not Go
A 22-month-old girl is brought by her mother to an anganwadi health check in a tea garden area. She has had swelling of both feet for ten days and diarrhoea for three days, and she is irritable and takes breast milk poorly.
611 words, about 3 min