Pneumonia

clients knowledge gaps and filling them in will not only help us care providers but will lead to better client outcomes. It is also a process that includes the client into their care and gives them the opportunity to make informed decisions. 2) Pneumonia often results in thick and viscous fluid accumulation in the lungs. It is important that these secretions are thinned in order to remove them from the airway.…

adults and in undernutrition. Mortality is highest in infants and younger children. Complications most commonly are respiratory, and pneumonia causes most measles-associated deaths. The pneumonia risk is higher with immune suppression, which can be induced systemically by the virus itself or local immune dysfunction can occur locally within the lungs. The pneumonia infecting agent can be the measles virus itself, another secondary virus, or by secondary bacterial infections. Measles virus…

Initially, client should be educated on each of the diseases processes and how each disease can perpetuate the other, and what the options are for managing them. The client needs to be educated on receiving the Pneumonia vaccine and the Influenza vaccine annually to prevent recurrent pneumonia, or flu viruses that can be easily acquired with her respiratory condition. She also needs to be educated on pulmonary hygiene and avoiding individuals that currently have a respiratory infection.…

(airways) of the lungs. It is permanent abnormal dilatation of one or more bronchi/ bronchiole due to destruction of ciliated epithelium, elastic and muscular tissue. The destructive process may be initiated by primary microbial infection (necrotizing pneumonia, tuberculosis, aspergillosis, etc.) or obstruction (foreign body, tumour, lymph node, etc.) resulting in stasis and secondary infection. It is classified under obstructive lung disease. This disease cannot be cured but it can be…

particular. Researches show that respiratory pathogens reside in dental plaque (Russell, Boylan, Kaslick, Scannapieco, & Katz, 1999; Scannapieco, Stewart, & Mylotte, 1992), which is implicated in aspiration pneumonia (Kuyama, Sun, & Yamamoto, 2010). Aspiration pneumonia (AP) is defined as pneumonia resulting from aspiration of oropharyngeal contents (such as dental plaque mixed with saliva) into the lower respiratory…

i. Chest x-rays can detect changes in the density of the lungs, more specifically the lower lobes (Christensen & Krockow, 2011, p.1641). Bronchoscopy is particularly useful in pneumonia when aspiration of a foreign objet or food is suspected. A culture and sensitivity test is used to determine the causative bacteria and to specify which antibiotic would be the best to be used. Pulse oximetry is used to monitor oxygenation status. ii. GERD is diagnosed mostly from signs sand symptoms. The gold…

alveoli in the lungs,than causing swelling and fibrosis in the lung tissue and impede the work of the air sacs and prevents oxygen from reaching the blood. SARS is attached with flu-like syndrome, is viruses called the SARS-CoV which forward into pneumonia and from time to time the disease caused to death many people. The history of severe acute respiratory syndrome (SARS) was first appearance in 2002 in Asia. In the beginning of July 2003 a total of 8,437 people worldwide had become ill with…

Legionnaires' returning from a state convention in Philadelphia began to fall ill with mysterious symptoms: pneumonia and fevers topping 107 degrees" (nytimes.com). Following Legionnaire, a few more cases arose resulted in a high morbidity rate. It wasn't until six months later, that scientists learned that the Legionella bacteria caused the disease. Legionnaires'' disease, as a form of pneumonia has the following symptoms: "cough, shortness of breath, high fever, muscle ache, and headache"…

Down Here I hear the echo of the doctor’s words. “Mother (...) severe case (...)Pneumonia” The assassin approaches quietly, disguising his sinister intents as a cold, hiding under names that seem benign. Ma lies encased under layers of blankets and bed sheets. Her nemesis consumes her life, bit by bit with the irrepressible cascade of…

growth. Whereas, the respiratory culture was obtained from tracheal aspiration and has positive test results with many WBC’s less than 25 squamous epithelial cells, moderate Gram-negative Rods, many Pseudomonas aeruginosa and moderate Klebsiella pneumonia which was resistant to Ampicillin.  CBG- Capillary blood gas results conclude that the patient has moderate hypoxemia and the acid-base status of this blood gas could be interpreted as compensated respiratory acidosis or compensated metabolic…