Dust pneumonia

The patient presented to the ED with an attempted suicide by overdose. Per documentation the patient was found in her car in a Randleman Wal-Mart parking lot, not breathing and with no pulse. Per Documentation EMS reports patient was seen at High Point Regional Hospital for overdose earlier this week. At the time of the assessment the patient was found asleep with her husband by her side. The patient awaken, however had little eye contact with me. The patient reports that in August she loss…

Are you aware of your breathing problems? Issues regarding Asthma Asthma, issue of the respiratory framework in which the sections that empower air to go into and out of the lungs occasionally contract, bringing on hacking, puffing, and shortage of breath. This is regularly transitory and reversible, yet in extreme assaults, asthma might bring about death. Asthma most ordinarily alludes to bronchial asthma, an aggravation of the aviation routes, yet the term is likewise used to allude to…

the result of many different types of diseases. Pleural effusion does not affect any specific age group or gender. There are many possible causes for this issue including heart failure, liver disease, pancreatitis, kidney disease, tuberculosis, pneumonia, and cancer. Not every patient with pleural effusion will be symptomatic. However, if the patient is symptomatic, the most common presenting complaint is SOB. Other common symptoms include chest pain, cough (productive or non-productive),…

The Disease with No Cure Approximately 30,00 people on the united states have Cystic Fibrosis. Cystic Fibrosis is a lung disease that limits your ability to breathe overtime. There is no cure but, the disease can be controlled with treatments and a management team. In CF a gene causes a thick buildup of mucus that blocks the airways. Today the life expectancy for people with CF who live past child hood is 37 years. Cystic fibrosis is very unpredictable in the ways it affects your body. It…

1. Pneumonia is a disease where lungs are affected by germs maybe virus, bacteria or fungus. 2. It spreads from one person to another by air droplets. When one affected person coughs, he releases droplets of infection in air and when another susceptible person comes in contact with these secreted droplets he catches the infection. 3. Some conditions make one individual more susceptible to these infections like extremes of age, diabetes, alcoholism, smoking, transplant patients, patients on…

Urinary tract infections (UTI) still cause significant morbidity in patients with spinal cord injury, although mortality due to urinary tract complications has decreased dramatically (1). Patients with spinal cord injurie (SCI) and complete or incomplete paraplegia are prone to frequent, recurrent or chronic UTI. The reason for the increased risk of acquiring UTI is multifactorial, including reduced sensation of classical UTI symptoms, incomplete bladder emptying, frequent catheterizations or…

Initially, client should be educated on each of the diseases processes and how each disease can perpetuate the other, and what the options are for managing them. The client needs to be educated on receiving the Pneumonia vaccine and the Influenza vaccine annually to prevent recurrent pneumonia, or flu viruses that can be easily acquired with her respiratory condition. She also needs to be educated on pulmonary hygiene and avoiding individuals that currently have a respiratory infection.…

Pneumonia is caused by an inflammatory response to an organism such as streptococcus pneumoniae or escherichia coli. This inflammation occurs in the alveolar sacs and the alveoli are filled with fluid, neutrophils, and there is also an increase in mucus production.The inflammation of the alveolar sacs leads to a decrease in gas exchange which leads to hypoxia (Lewis, 2014). There are several types of pneumonia and they include: community-acquired, medical care-associated, aspiration, and…

Nosocomial infections, or infections acquired from a healthcare setting, should always be on the mind of surgical technologists. Recently, nosocomial infection rates have risen, and a surgical technologist must be very diligent in maintaining the sterile technique in order to combat this. A common type of nosocomial infection is surgical site infections, or SSIs. SSIs result from a variety of sources, both endogenous (such as bacteria living on the patient’s skin) and exogenous (outside the…

Pulmonary Disease is a progressive disease that makes breathing difficult. When having this disease, lung damage is produced. The disease worsens over time, although it is not treated, it can be slowed down. This is mainly caused by smoking, chemical fume, dust, and air pollution. Although there are many causes to this disease, smoking is the most common. It happens to over 12 million Americans and the risk factors can be environmental or genetics. COPD is largely preventable and rare in…