Pneumonia

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…

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…

HISTORICAL SIGNIFICANCE. Pneumocystis jirovecii pneumonia as PJP first came into attention Central and Eastern Europe during WWII as malnourished and premature infants began to suffer from a case of interstitial pneumonia (Bennett and Gilroy, 2016). The disease then came into the forefront in the medical world with the outbreak of malnourishment of Iranian children in the 1950s (Stringer et al, 2002). In 1981, there were 5 reported cases of homosexual men suffering with PJP as well (Bennett and…

Ventilator-associated pneumonia (VAP) is a type of pneumonia that is acquired by being on a mechanical ventilator. Cutler and Sluman (2013) describe pneumonia as an inflammatory illness within the lungs that is due to some type of infectious agent. That infectious agent could be viral, bacterial, or from an environmental fungal source (Cutler & Sluman, 2013). A mechanical ventilator is a type of hospital device that effectively and efficiently maintains breathing. A ventilator essentially…

Implementation Plan Development Methods of securing support for the proposal and obtaining necessary approvals The first and foremost approval to obtaining support is from fellow nurses in order to “buy them in” as they will be an important asset in the formal approval of the executives. Talking to colleagues who work at the bedside of the patients and understand what the change is all about is an important part in the implementation. Administration approval will also be an important tool as…

Tongtong Fu (20664426) ENGL 109 Group 10 Personal Narrative Essay —— A fight against pneumonia My mother diagnosed with pneumonia when I was at the age of eight. She was weak and coughing all the time. My father went to Spain to work, so I was the only one who can take care of my mother. Illness makes people anxious, and I found my mother was easy to get angry during that time. There was a bitter flavoured herb soup she had to eat everyday, and I can observe…

setting to convey the information. Rationale for Using Lecture: In this class, the lecture will be delivered by highlighting the common sources of nosocomial infection such as blood stream infection, catheter related infection, ventilator associated pneumonia, and surgical site infections. The use of audiovisual aids such as power point slides with videos and pictures explaining the general measures of infection control such as the use of hand hygiene, isolation, and standard precautions will…

around in the air where that person is, but the fungus part most of the time happens.Most people are visible to it at the age of 3 or 4, but Liberace got it in 1986. It can cause a certain type of pneumonia, and it can control the A healthy immune system can easily control it. But it causes a type of pneumonia in people with weakened immune systems, such as those with HIV/AIDS. This is why it's called an opportunistic infection. Although it's rare, PCP can affect other parts of the body,…

Introduction Up to this point in our respiratory care education we have learned a great deal about therapies and drugs that eliminate, mediate, or prevent symptoms of common respiratory conditions like COPD, asthma, cystic fibrosis, tuberculosis, etc. Most of our focus has been centered around improving patient’s gas exchange by relaxing airway smooth muscle, clearing secretions, expanding airways, and decreasing inflammation. As we have eluded to in many scenarios leading up to this point,…

I’ve spent a year getting x-rays due to my illness. Pneumonia has put me in the hospital many times every week. Today I was feeling good but for some reason I had to go get more x-rays taken. My mom carried me through the doors, it wasn’t the same hospital I normally went to. My mom also brought along a basket with three really cute outfits and a cake. It was pink and blue with swirls all over it and party hats on top, it looked really good. I tried walking to it but I couldn’t get there very…