Asthma

quit four years ago when she had her baby. While being assessed by the nurse, Mrs.A starts to have an asthma attack. She becomes dyspneic and presents with a harsh cough. She becomes tachycardic and has high blood pressure. She is put on a nebulizer, medications, IV fluids, and oxygen. She remains in the hospital for three days before being discharged. Question One The pathophysiology of asthma is: “ described as a chronic disease that involves inflammation of the pulmonary airways and…

Asthma is a disease that affects lungs airways. A person with asthma always has inflamed airways. When something triggers symptoms, airways become more swollen and muscles around the airways tighten. This swelling and tightening causes troubles with breathing, and can trigger shortness of breath, coughing, wheezing, or chest tightness. For many people who suffer from asthma, symptoms occur when they do physical activity. Some healthy people develop asthma only when they exercise. This is…

“What is asthma?” You may be wondering. Well, asthma is a condition affecting your respiratory system, which makes breathing difficult. This condition is common, since the estimated amount of people having it is 300 million. Though it is common, that doesn't mean that it isn't harmful. There are different types of asthma, depending on the seriousness. However, the treatments and diagnosis is the same. What causes Asthma? Asthma triggers. Exposure to allergens can trigger the signs of asthma.…

Pediatric Asthma Asthma is a common lung disease that cause the airways to narrow during symptoms. The muscles tighten and mucus builds up constricting the airway and making it difficult to breathe. Some symptoms of asthma are trouble breathing, coughing, wheezing, and chest tightness. Allergies, irritants, smoke, air pollution, dust and physical activities are all triggers for asthma.1 Childhood asthma is the most serious chronic disease in children and infants.2 I think childhood asthma is…

who was just diagnosed with asthma. Asthma is defined as a chronic condition in which the airways narrow, swell, and produce extra mucus. This can make breathing difficult and trigger coughing, wheezing, and shortness of breath (Staff, 2015). Asthma affects people of all ages, but it usually presents in childhood. There are approximately more than 25 million people living with asthma in the US and 7 million of them are children (NIH, 2014). There is no cure for asthma but the symptoms can be…

A RAST assay to a panel of standard allergens plus bird mix including canaries had come back negative. Lung function test today revealed normal baseline spirometry and a negative bronchoprovocation test, arguing against the presence of any active asthma.…

Thank you very much for referring your wife along for management of her asthma. As you are aware, she was first diagnosed with asthma at about the age of 17 or 18, but does believe that perhaps prior to that, there was some exercise-induced bronchospasm that had been left untreated. Since that time, she has been taking Ventolin only very occasionally and never more regularly than once or twice a week. Her normal triggers have previously been cold air, exercise, viral infections and sulfur.…

Asthma is type one hypersensitivity reaction. It could be atopic (extrinsic) or non-atopic (intrinsic). In atopic asthma: In early phase, When asthmatic people inhale allergen, this will lead to bronchoconstriction due to the release of mediators by mast cells (histamine, prostaglandin, and leukotrienes) and this will lead to contraction of airway smooth muscle. When the person Expose to an allergen the IgE antibodies level will increase. The change in IgE production is related to Th2 (these…

the pathophysiology. What organs are affected by each disorder? (20 marks/10 per disorder) Asthma Asthma is a chronic syndrome related to the inflamed airways of the lungs (Rogers 2010). This is due to the constriction of the airways from an exaggerated response to triggers that lead to “episodes of wheezing, chest tightness, dyspnea and coughing” (Rogers 2010). Asthma can start at any age. Atopic asthma, in most cases starts in childhood, and is often related to an inherited predisposition to…

that health care organizations utilized this strategy to analyze the internal and external features of the organization, and also accomplishments and areas in need of improvement. Coral Springs Medical Center (CSMC) where this writer conducted the asthma SWOT analysis. The preceptor assigned is Perla Bueno a pediatric clinical specialist. Perla Bueno RN-BSN, MSN has been a nurse for the past 24 years, six as which as a pediatric clinical specialist (P. Bueno, personal communication, November 16,…