Clostridium difficile

Crohn’s disease is defined as a “transmural inflammatory process.”1 Crohn’s disease is one of the two forms of inflammatory bowel disease.2 Crohn’s disease most commonly affects the end of the ileum, which is the last part of the small intestine. Although, it can occur anywhere throughout the entirety of the gastrointestinal tract.1 Typically, there are areas of the gastrointestinal tract that are normal, but these segments are separated by areas of the gastrointestinal tract that have damage.…

Bacteria are one-celled organisms. When looked at under a microscope, they appear to be balls, rods, or spirals. Contrary to popular belief, most bacteria are actually good for other organisms. Under 1% of bacteria on Earth cause disease, and the bacteria that do can usually be treated with antibiotics (“Bacterial Infections: Medline Plus,” par 1). The common image of bacteria is that they are all horrific organisms that cause disease. While people should most definitely wash their hands to…

prevention of upper gastrointestinal bleeding in people who are at high risk.[1] It is administered orally. Normal reactions incorporate sickness, regurgitating, cerebral pains, and expanded intestinal gas. Genuine symptoms may incorporate Clostridium difficile colitis, an expanded danger of pneumonia, an expanded danger of bone breaks, and the capability of concealing stomach malignancy. It is vague on the off chance that it is alright for use in pregnancy. Omeprazole is a proton pump inhibitor…

City brings her 6-year-old child to see her primary care physician, complaining that her child has seemed “off” for the past month. The child has been extremely fatigued and taking multiple naps during the day that do not seem to refresh her. She is normally a good sleeper at night and recently has begun to have trouble with multiple awakenings. The child has also complained multiple times of frequent headaches throughout the week. She has also been seen to exhibit some confusion while playing…

Open limb fractures are commonly encountered as part of our daily practice. They are often complex injuries to manage and require a multidisciplinary team due to the musculoskeletal and associated soft-tissue injuries (1-3). The annual incidence of open fractures of long bones is 11.5 per 100,000 persons per year with 40% of them occur in the Lower Limb (LL) (4,5). Several classification systems have been used to grade the extent of injury and helped define the contemporary approach to the…

Infection Prevention Megan Scott Rasmussen College Author Note This research is being submitted on February 26th, 2017 for Julie Deane’s NUR2155 Fundamentals of Professional Nursing course. Every year National Patient Safety Goals are set by the Joint Commission to acknowledge specific concerns in each health care setting. The purpose of these goals are to improve patient safety by identifying the problems and how to solve them (Joint Commission, 2016). Although prevalent, infections…

Thousands of people die every day around the world from infections acquired while receiving Healthcare. Hands are the main pathways of germ transmission during Healthcare. Hand hygiene is therefore the most important measure to avoid the transmission of harmful germs and prevent Healthcare-associated infections. Any health-care worker, caregiver or person involved in direct or indirect patient care needs to be concerned about hand hygiene and should be able to perform it correctly and at the…

Also, the indications for esophagogastroduodenoscopy (EGD) have significantly increased, including GERD. These patients usually tend to be chronic PPIs users. Several studies have associated PPI use with an increased risk of hip fracture, Clostridium difficile, and community-acquired pneumonia.(3-5) In addition, the literature associated sporadic gastric fundic gland polyps (FGPs) with…

The Road to Success Reading and writing are like the components of a workout; the more you practice, the better you’ll become. This comparison became my motto during a time I had to learn a new language. Although it wasn’t just any language like English or Spanish, this language involved codes, signs, abbreviations, and terms. I would have to learn this new language through the help of reading and writing in a mere three months. Having a hate-hate relationship with reading and writing…

Probiotics are the new buzz words these days, simply because we are learning more about their incredible benefits to digestive health and applying the knowledge to ward off illnesses and lead to longer, more productive lives. Probiotics are typically used in the same sentence (or two) with our immune system; the relationship between both are inextricably linked and they function together to keep our internal systems in check. This is mainly due to there being 70% of our immune system in the…