Blood culture

where micro clots form in the smaller blood vessels, causing further inadequate perfusion and worsening of ischaemia. These clots form widespread purpura fulminans, best described as the tiny blood spots and discoloration of the skin in patients infected with the meningococcal bacteria (Heyderman, 1993). As these micro clots form, clotting factors become exhausted leading to thrombocytopenia. With a reduced amount of platelets and clotting factors in the blood, the body recognises it has…

Lung transplantation is a complex surgical procedure that a diseased lung is removed and replaced with a donor lung through anastomosis. In context of transplantation, a patient will receive either a single or bilateral lung transplant from a deceased donor. The current concern for lung transplantation is the shortage of lungs donor. Fortunately, some cases could be relieved by receiving donation from living donors. This procedure involved the removal of one lower lobes of lungs each from two…

experiencing. While in the emergency department, a CT of the chest reveals multiple abnormalities within the left and right lung fields. Lab reveals elevated white blood cell count and abnormal liver function and coagulation profile. The patient was admitted to the intensive care unit and started on oxygen therapy and antibiotic therapy. Blood cultures were obtained and the patient’s antibiotic therapy was adjusted with the identification of the organism that resulted in the…

“Under certain physiologic or experimental conditions, stem cells can be induced to become mature cells with special functions that help cure diseases” (Aldridge). Studies have shown that stem cells can replace virtually any tissue or organ that is injured or diseased, yet no other medicine or drug has been able to perform such a task. Most people would rather choose chemotherapy treatments simply because stem cell processes take years to confirm. However, are stem cells a higher quality when…

I was working in Intensive care unit, when I noticed that one of the vented patient’s pulse oximeter (ox) pleth was showing many artifacts and the saturation was 88. The other ICU nurse who was assigned to this patient was attending to a different patient, so I decided to check on the patient. I suctioned the patient, applied a new finger pulse ox, and noticed that patient pulse ox saturation started to drop. While I was assessing the patient, I noticed that the patient’s pulse oximeter (ox)…

According’s to NIH (2017a), the typical signs and symptoms of Pneumonia include coughing of green or blood-stained sputum, shortness of breath, fever, chest pain, shaking chills and fatigue. Others signs and symptoms are sore throat, muscle pain and loss of appetite (Mackenzie, 2016). Signs and symptoms are varying in individuals. Sometime mental awareness in elderly may have drastic change due to Pneumonia (Mackenzie, 2016). Most of the typical signs and symptoms above were appear in Dudley’s…

INTRODUCTION: According to Ong andHho1 fournier’s gangrene was originally described by Baurienne in 1764, but named by jean Alfred Fournier(1832 - 1914) in 1883 when he described the occurrence of a condition characterised by sudden onset in previously healthy young men, rapid progression to gangrene and absence of a definite cause, as quoted by Stephens et al.2 and Laor et al.3 the Persian physician Avicenna (980 - 1037) had earlier described the same condition in his book the Canon of…

Since the beginning of time, people have always tried to find a sense of belonging. Whether this belonging or acceptance comes from the home or the outside world, people long for the need to be acknowledged. For some individuals, the ideas of having people behind you is everything but when society and in most cases, family turns away, another form of acceptance can come into play when dealing with where you live and who you ultimately want to be. When acceptance isn’t reached with family or…

suspicious and during her interview confessed saying that her boyfriend who was an officer was in charge of it. He never said where the money was after he was convicted and while in prison was associating himself with a gang by the name of Mob Piru Bloods. This gang was to be associated with Death Row Records. Currently it seems like the officers who were a part of this unit began to associate themselves with the gang life. Such as working for the Death Row Records label at security guards even…

Bram Stoker’s, Dracula (1897), details the myth of the legendary vampire who wreaked havoc on the lives of Mr. & Mrs. Harker as well as many others along the way. At first glance, it seems as though Dracula fills the role of any malicious occult figure that would grace the literature world at the time this was published, however, I like to believe that Dracula is not necessarily evil. He is rather an organism that is trying to fulfill its biological requirements to reproduce and continue its…