Dust pneumonia

Assessment The fact that he is experiencing more symptoms at night suggests that he is experiencing orthopnea. We can rule out emphysema since he has no history of smoking or wheezing and his chest x-ray shows clear lung fields. We can rule out pneumonia and other infections since he has clear nasal discharge and breath sounds so infection is unlikely. Beta blockers that block B2 receptors may cause shortness of breath in asthmatics. Serious side effects of beta blockers include bronchospasms.…

Case Presentation This section of the paper focuses on a 24 years old Caucasian male who was transferred to Advocate Christ Medical Center from an outside hospital after being hit by a vehicle. According to the EMS who arrived at the scene, the patient was unresponsive with a GCS of 3. Per protocol, the patient was then intubated to sustain their airway. The patient received a CT of the head that revealed bifrontal and bitemporal hemorrhagic contusions along with multiple facial fractures. The…

Asthma is a chronic inflammatory disease of the airways which makes the respiratory tract hyper-responsive. Exact mechanisms of asthma are complicated to pinpoint due to its heterogeneity of eosinophilic and non-eosinophilic asthma. However, abnormal accumulation of mast cells, eosinophils, dendritic cells, and basophils are thought to be the major cause of asthma, resultant in IgE mediated sensitization with Th-2 CD4+ lymphocytes secreting cytokines IL-2, IL-4, IL-5, IL-13, IL-17, and IFN-γ…

which then progresses to intense bouts of coughing. These bouts can be followed by vomiting, choking or a sharp intake of breath which causes a distinctive “whooping” sound. If not correctly managed Pertussis can lead to complications including: pneumonia, seizures, coma, brain damage and death. Kyle is presenting with symptoms of rhinorrhea (runny nose), red-bloodshot…

The person whom I chose to interview was my uncle Daniel. He has being living in United States for more than10 years and has been diagnosed with asthma since he was a little child. He was not sure exactly the age at which the disease began, but his mother said that was probably when he was 2 years old. Being an asthmatic child has impacted his family in many ways. The first impact was to realize that asthma is a chronic disease that is treatable, but it has no cure. In fact, asthma symptoms…

“The Dust Bowl” is a documentary movie by Ken Burns. The film describes the environmental and economic disaster Midwesterners faced during the mid-1930’s. Present day interviews with survivors of the dust bowl punctuate the photographs, stories, facts, and film footage throughout the movie. The documentary gives 20th century Americans a glimpse of the hardships faced by farmers and their families and friends some 80 years ago. Dust Pneumonia During the dust bowl, the amount of dirt was so…

The Dust Bowl was a drought that strickened the Southern PLains region of the united states.They suffered from severe dust storms that had severe high winds. The choking dust swept the region from Texas to Nebraska. Many people were killed from this tragic disaster. The Dust Bowl also killed the livestock and it had also failed crops across the entire region. This disaster drove many families on a desperate migration for search of work and better living conditions. Roughly 7,000 people died due…

The Dust Bowl and Life in The 1930ś Introduction: The Dust Bowl was a tragic event in the Southern states that impacted families as many people died and had creased financial responsibilities, but different laws were put in place to help people in the Dust Bowl. The Great Plains suffered a drought between 1930-1940. This drought was caused by changes in weather, farming techniques, economic and cultural factors. Many people suffered during the Dust Bowl including crops and animals. Dust…

The dust bowl was one of the harshest and most destructive man made “natural” disasters in its time period.The Dust Bowl negatively affected people who lived there in a personal way. The lives of people were at stake during. When people could not handle the weather or had their homes taken from them, they moved westward to California. Not only were the people of this area struggling, so was the economy. Farming was the cause of the dust bowl but nobody knew that at first. People began calling…

south into profit. By the summer of 1931, rain stopped and whirlwinds became larger and thicker than usual. The land was naked and fields were blown out. As dust rose into the atmosphere…