Pneumonia

Parkinson’s disease is a nervous system disorder that affects movement. Parkinson's disease symptoms change as the disease progresses, with some becoming more profound over time and new ones appearing (Bob Hoskins Death: How 'Hook' Actor Died from Pneumonia after Parkinson's Diagnosis). This disease has to do with an imbalance of the dopamine neurotransmitter (Zimbardo,…

Pneumonia is a lung infection which it makes us very sick. Most people with pneumonia begin flu symptoms and then develop a high fever, chills and cough with sputum (medical news today). We can get pneumonia everywhere and especially smoke of the cigarette. The nicotine itself is very strong; it destroys our lungs and also our tiny hair in our nose which cleans up dirty air that we inhale. Smoking is one of the strongest risk factor for pneumonia especially to young people…

(2007). Health Care–Associated Pneumonia Requiring Hospital Admission. Archives Of Internal Medicine, 167(13), 1393. http://dx.doi.org/10.1001/archinte.167.13.1393 https://jamanetwork.com/journals/jamainternalmedicine/fullarticle/412762 Nickson, C. (2018). Nosocomial Pneumonia. LITFL • Life in the Fast Lane Medical Blog. Retrieved 19 April 2018, from https://lifeinthefastlane.com/ccc/nosocomial-pneumonia/ https://lifeinthefastlane.com/ccc/nosocomial-pneumonia/…

factors that affect patient outcomes, while the external factors involve aspect from other sectors of the economy including political, legal, as well as economy factors (Sopcheck, 2016). For example, in patients suffering from ventilator acquired pneumonia, political, legal, and economic factors influence the choice of treatment alternative adopted. Furthermore, there are various nursing prevention approaches for this ailment. However,…

All over the world each day people go hungry because they are not able to provide food for themselves or their family. It is said that every ten seconds someone dies from hunger. Because of the lack of food and hunger many people around the world are becoming weak and sick. This makes it harder for them to work and make money which causes them to fall deeper and deeper into poverty. For some places their are programs called “food for work” which lets adults work jobs that often consist of manual…

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 immense that it would cause people to get sick. The dust would get down into people’s lungs and choke them. This illness was called dust pneumonia. Dust pneumonia caused death if it got too severe. This illness caused death in many people of various ages. One of the stories told in “The Dust Bowl’ by…

According to DON Fall s are leading causes of injury in the long term care (LTC), fall in the long term care are very common. Sometimes you can have up to five fall in the weak .According to CDC about 1,800 older adults living in nursing homes die each year from fall-related injuries and those who survive frequently sustain injuries that result in permanent disability and reduced quality of life. most fall happening during self-transfer either from bed to wheelchair or from wheelchair to the…

these shadows can be caused by pulmonary edema, pneumonia, inhalation injury or leukemia (Bell,2017). Kerley B lines on an X-ray are a horizontal line that is less than two centimeters long, normally are seen in the lower periphery and are parallel to other ones at the right angles of the pleura. Most frequently they are seen from the PA image at the costophrenic angles. These are caused by pulmonary edema, lymphoma, lymphangitis carciomatosa, pneumonia, sarcoidosis or interstitial pulmonary…

genus of pathogenic bacteria. This bacteria is eukaryotic and gram negative. It depends on the host for ATP and energy metabolism, therefore an obligate intracellular organism. Chlamydia has three species, namely, C.pneumoniae, that causes a type of pneumonia, C.psittaci, that causes psittacosis and C.trachomatis that causes various diseases such as trachoma, inclusion conjunctivitis and nongonococcal urethritis. Chlamydial infections are spread by either direct contact or by inhalation of…

1. Upper Respiratory Infection (URTI). Most often transmitted by hand to hand/surface contact with lack of hand sanitization, and droplet transmission, resulting in multiple etiologies such as rhinovirus, coronavirus, and other viral origins. Patients may present exhibiting the following symptoms including sore throat, cough, nasal congestion, fever, dyspnea, thick and increased colored sputum production, headache, rhinorrhea, and/or fatigue. Most of this is due to the immune system triggering…