Acute

I have spent my fifteen year nursing career providing bedside care to patients in acute care settings. Over the years I have grown, and at times felt frustration, in the knowledge that many acute situations could have been avoided with better access to primary care treatment and management of chronic conditions. It is my hope that there will be an expansion of the health care system that would allow the public greater access to more thorough preventative care. An increase in the numbers of mid…

of your body and extremities? A stroke is an acute neurological deficit when cerebral vessel becomes obstructed (atherosclerosis) or a cerebral vessel rupture (Physical, 2008). There are four types of migraine associated with strokes namely; migrainous infarct, migraine like headache due to blood, cardiac or vascular disorder, migraines triggered by stroke and lastly migraine as a risk factor for stroke (Brashers, 2006). Clinical manifestations of acute stroke are unilateral paralysis, one side…

Patient safety concerns in the acute care setting is an increasing focus of research. Increasing patient safety has become the golden standard. Such events as patient falls, and patient elopements may be reduced by the implementation of purposeful rounding process, while increasing patient satisfaction. Personal Practice Environment In the acute care setting, such as the emergency department and the medical-surgical unit, patient acuity varies, but the need to provide a safe care setting…

Lower tract acute respiration infections (LT-ARI) has been estimated to cause 75% of all acute illnesses and are said to affect infants and young children worldwide. New respiratory viruses such as: human metapneumovirus (hMPV), new subtypes of human coronaviruses (hCoV), and bocavirus (hBoV), have been linked to LT-ARI. A common factor that affect LT-ARI studied in this experiment is age, although the prevalence is truly unknown. A study was conducted to aim an estimate prevalence of viral…

The acute inflammatory response can be stimulated by an infection, tissue necrosis, foreign bodies, or immune reactions. The stimulus is recognized by receptors on the surface phagocytes, dendritic cells, and epithelial cells. The two types of the receptors are the toll like receptors and the inflammasomes. The toll like receptors recognize bacterial and virus DNA and endotoxins and in response produce inflammatory mediators. The inflammasome recognizes microbial or dead cell products or…

Acute leukemia Did you know that there are “about 54,270 new cases of leukemia in the united states each year” according to (Nordquist). Only “about 24,450 people die from leukemia per year” according to (Nordquist). Leukemia is a blood marrow disease, there are certain symptoms for acute myeloid leukemia, acute lymphoblastic leukemia, treatment, and the stages. Acute myeloid leukemia, acute means that it spreads fast and myeloid is the types of cells it affects. Acute lymphoblastic leukemia,…

Acute heart failure may occur in instances such as MI whilst compensated heart failure customarily develops steadily, for example, in patients with degenerative valve diseases. Heart failure can also be categorised depending on the side of the heart affected…

What? As this was our last journal for our first Acute Care rotation, I did not write about events in specific but simply reflected on my journey over the past couple of months while giving a few examples where it applied. The main themes of this journal consisted of therapeutic communication, time management, anxiety, and collaboration. So what? During our first few clinical days, I would feel extremely anxious and afraid of the unknown. My biggest fear was having clients direct their…

Annotated Bibliography on Acute Compartment Syndrome Via, A. G., Oliva, F., Spoliti, M., & Maffulli, N. (2015). Acute compartment syndrome. Muscles, ligaments and tendons journal, 5(1), 18. This journal is accredited by medical doctors through Muscles, ligaments and tendon journal, US National Library of Medicine and National Institute of Health. All medical physicians are in Italy. They specialize in traumatology and orthopedics. Various awards given for Orthopedic Research and all are…

all races or ethnicities. Acute leukemia develops fast, but chronic leukemia develops more slowly. It causes almost one third of all cancer deaths in children today, close to every ten minutes somebody dies from leukemia. From 2004 through 2010 the survival rate was at about fifty- seven percent. The number of new cases and deaths in 2007 to 2011 per one hundred thousand was thirteen out of one hundred thousand for…