Pneumonia

TERMINOLOGY CLINICAL CLARIFICATION • Systemic illness due to microbial infection that can lead to acute organ dysfunction or failure and associated with host immune response to infection CLASSIFICATION • There is a disease continuum with increasing severity if not treated or not responsive to treatment o Systemic inflammatory response syndrome (SIRS) - Documented or suspected infection with systemic manifestations of infection - Clinical response to a nonspecific insult of either infectious or…

Hyperlipidemia and was a smoker and consumer of alcohol but reported to have quit 5 years ago. The patient had come in with a chief complaint of shortness of breath. Upon evaluation through chest x-ray and cultures, the patient revealed to have lower lobe pneumonia. Dullness and crackles at the base of lungs due to stagnation of secretions at lung bases had occurred most likely because he was an older patient and did not mobilized effectively. Presented tachycardia due to shortness of breath…

gonorrhoeae and N. meningitidis are the most common when it comes to infections in humans. The other species are sometimes referred to as “non pathogenic Neisseria” yet they still can cause some serious conditions such as endocarditis, meningitis, or pneumonia. In this case study they analyzed a patient with Neisseria sicca endocarditis. The patient was a 41-year-old-male who had been admitted to a hospital for fever and flu-like symptoms. He was a heavy smoker,, and had a known history of…

consequence of his COPD? R.S., the patient, has many diagnoses, findings like his history of coronary artery disease, peripheral arterial vascular disease, irregular ABG, chronic bronchitis- COPD, and of course that leads to the possible diagnosis of pneumonia. Therefore, this leads to a very long list of signs and symptoms. The signs and symptoms of COPD type B, which is classified as a “blue bloater” (Copstead, & Banasik, 2010, pg. 483), is very expansive. Since R.S. falls under the “blue…

“superbugs” often kills influenza patients because the flu virus alters the antibacterial response of white blood cells, causing them to damage the patient's' lungs instead of destroying the bacterium. Many influenza patients develop severe pneumonia as a result of secondary infections with “superbugs”. Over half of these patients die, even when treated with antibiotics that are usually capable of clearing…

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),…

P. aeruginosa has been studied extensively for over 100 years due to its role in chronic infections of the urinary tract, pneumonia in cystic fibrosis patients, its ability to delay wound healing, and in foreign-body infections (biomaterial implants and devices such as catheters and prosthetics).2,4,14-17 Biofilm-based chronic infections caused by P. aeruginosa affect millions of people and are the leading cause of morbidity and mortality in patients suffering from cystic fibrosis.18,19 Growth…

Cystic Fibrosis is a life-threatening, genetic disease that causes persistent lung infections and progressively limits the ability to breathe, which has approximately affected 30,000 people in the United States and an estimate of 70,000 people worldwide (NHlBI,2013). The disease is most common among children and young adults. I will now begin to inform you about the cause, the symptoms and how to treat Cystic Fibrosis. Cystic Fibrosis affects the respiratory tract, the digestive tract, the…

Emphysema is a chronic lung disease, which damages the air sacs called alveoli by causing shortness of breath (dyspnea) due to the enlargement of lung sacs. Emphysema is also known as Chronic Obstructive Pulmonary Disease (Ontario Lung Association,2015). Emphysema is a disease, which not only destroys the lung air sacs but it also reduces the amount of oxygen that can reach the bloodstream. Smoking is one of the main reasons for the cause of emphysema. Therefore, it occurs mostly to the people…

More often than not, the tongue can pose as a hazard in patenting an airway. The oropharyngeal airway is used to open and keep clear the oropharynx. The oropharyngeal airway(OPA) is used to keep the tongue from obstructing the airway, as well as making suctioning of the oropharynx easier. The OPA should be used in unresponsive patients, patients without a gag reflex and patients being ventilated with a BVM. Conscious patients and patients with an intact gag reflex should be excluded from the use…