Hospital-acquired pneumonia

Page 10 Smile on Wheels Case story: moving slums. Moving clinic In the midst of high-rise corporate buildings, there are about 800 slums where having a glass of clean water to drink is a luxury. Rachnahalli is a slum inhabited by approximately 400 migrant from Eastern Uttar Pradesh. They stay in a shed about 6’ x 4’ covered by a thin plastic sheets, exposed to elements from all four sides. You would find them on the busy streets of Bangalore selling their tablas. This sale fetches them only…

Bouali, and Eggimann (2007) designed a study to determine the effectiveness of single-patient rooms in preventing MRSA and VRE infections. The study occurred during a duration of 30 months and involved 2,522 patients at the Hôtel-Dieu de Montreal Hospital (p. 837). Although the patient’s ages varied, the participants were adults with a mean age of 65 (Bracco, Dubois, Bouali, and Eggimann, 2007, p. 838). The study compared the data collected over time from patients in a single room to the data…

This patient is a 42 year old female, who required inpatient hospitalization due to acute colitis. She was admitted at mercy general hospital on September 21, 2016 due to complaints of loose watery diarrhea for the last 2 days. She stated that it was accompanied by abdominal pain especially in the per umbilical area. She also noted that she had vomited once and had chills. On presentation to emergency department she was tachycardic. Her blood work showed a potassium level of 3.2 (no reference…

Classic Rapid Sequence Induction is considered fundamental to the provision of safe anesthesia according to Englehardt, 2014. Rapid Sequence Induction is an essential advanced airway technique used to reduce the possibility of pulmonary aspiration in high-risk patients. These high-risk patients can include pregnant patients, trauma patients, and other situations that are considered “full stomach” (Gencorelli, Fields, & Litman, 2010). Rapid Sequence Induction involves pre-oxygenation,…

Formal Care Plan: Pneumonia Biographical Data The patient is a 78 year old Hispanic female. She was born in Houston, Texas. She is married and has 2 children and is a retired school teacher. Present Health-Illness Status She was admitted into the hospital from the emergency room with pneumonia. The patient states she drove herself to the emergency room because she was feeling very sick and short of breath. She states she had been feeling like this for the past 3 days. She finally decided to…

ASSESMENT OF KNOWLEDGE AND PRACTICE OF HOSPITAL SUPPORT STAFF ON INFECTION PREVENTION IN THIKA LEVEL 5 HOSPITAL 1.0 INTRODUCTION 1.1 STUDY BACKGROUND Hospital Acquired Infections (HAI) also referred to as Nosocomial infections are those infections occurring in a patient during the process of care in a hospital or any other health care facility that was not manifesting or incubating at the time of admission (Nejad, Allegranzi, Syed, Ellis & Pittet, 2011). Nosocomial Infections are not limited to…

Healthcare facilities are seeing increased costs related to PONV due to the resulting complications, unanticipated admission, prolonged nursing care, and delayed PACU or hospital discharge (Kovac, 2013). Not only is PONV a huge patient dissatisfier, there are life-threatening risks associated with this complication including aspiration pneumonia, esophageal rupture, subcutaneous emphysema, and bilateral pneumothoraxes (Hambridge, 2013). In a study completed by Parra-Sanchez et al. (2012), it…

mentioned pneumothorax is subdivided into primary and secondary. Primary pneumothorax arises in healthy people without a history of lung disease. Secondary pneumothorax occurs in patients with an underlying lung disease such as pulmonary emphysema, pneumonia, malignancy, bronchial asthma, pulmonary fibrosis, and cystic fibrosis. In this study, secondary pneumothax is further observed. According to the journal article The…

in medical care for patients with advanced liver disease in the past decades, bacterial infections remain very common and account for significant morbidity and mortality in those patients.9 Clostridium difficile is an increasingly prevalent hospital-acquired infection that affects patients with cirrhosis. A study of over 80,000 patients with cirrhosis found patients with C. difficile-associated disease to have higher mortality and longer length of stay in higher care units than those without…

community needs assessment at Trinity Community Hospital, it was identified that there would be a 46% increase in the communities demand for orthopedic intervention over the span of the next 5 years. This assessment also identified a 30% rise in the number of inpatient spine and joint procedures, and a 350% increase in the number of outpatient spine and joint procedures that the community will demand. After careful review of Trinity Community Hospitals fact sheet, there is no evidence that…