Respiratory system

Pneumonia in Children Pneumonia is a serious life threatening illness in children. It is a form of Acute Respiratory Infection (ARI) that affects the lungs that are made up of small sacs called ‘Alveoli’. Hen hey get infected, these alveoli fill with pus and fluids. This makes it difficult for the baby to breathe and limits the oxygen intake. The Scary Statistics: • Pneumonia is the world’s leading killer of children under the age of five. • Each year, pneumonia takes the life of 1.4 million…

The number of children who currently have asthma is 6.8 million, according to the Center for Disease Control and Prevention website. Asthma is a chronic disease in your airways that makes breathing difficult sometimes. An asthma attack is the inflammation in the airway passages, which make the airways that carries oxygen become temporary, narrowed. People that have asthma can be especially sensitive to triggers. Often time’s airways will flare up to the simplest triggers like pollen, animal…

Also known as a whooping cough, Pertussis is a respiratory disease that is also contagious and is caused due to Bordetella pertussis, the bacterium. This disease is characterized by a prolonged paroxysmal cough and is also accompanied with by rispiratory whoop. The severity of the disease varies with the history and age of the previous vaccination or exposure. The symptoms also vary in infants and the adults. Before the vaccination era, the whooping cough was a common childhood disease that was…

In the premature stages, my son’s asthma diagnosis was similar to a foreign land. I was unsure of what all this actually meant for us. I was instructed by a nurse on how to administer his medication. My son was given the standard medication after his first asthma attack. Albuterol and prednisone are medications used to treat asthma symptoms. Albuterol is an oral inhalant that is used alone or in combination with an oral steroid to improve lung function. Prednisone is another oral inhalant;…

I will be talking about asthma asthma is a disease that affects the airway of the lungs. These airways allow you to breath in and out of your lungs. If you have asthma your airways are always inflamed your muscles can get tightened by something that triggers your symptom. Most of the time when asthma gets triggered by something it is physical activity or running. Many people with asthma have allergies that affect your allergies. Asthma symptoms,the most common symptom is wheezing. This is a…

physiologic effects of high-flow nasal cannula (HFNC), which “is a heated, humidified, high-flow oxygen delivery system that can generate total gas flows of up to 60 L/min with an adjustable FIO2”, compared to conventional oxygen therapy (COT) for patients with hypoxemia and acute dyspnea in the emergency department was the focus of this study published in the American Association for Respiratory Care Journal (Rittayami, Tscheikuna, Praphruetkit, & Kijpinyochai, 2015). The study had two goals:…

chemicals in the surroundings, or to clamor, can cause cancer, respiratory, and cardiovascular illness, as well as kidney toxicity. For example, 43% of the children’s mortality, between 0-14 years old, is blamed to poor environmental…

Physiological Effects of Decreased Atmospheric Pressure At lower altitudes such as sea level, the main stimulation for ventilation is carbon dioxide. (7) At high altitudes, hypoxia stimulates ventilation. (7) However, hypoxia only stimulates ventilation when the partial pressure of inspired oxygen is reduced to roughly 13.3kPa, and is at an altitude of 3000m or more. (7) When the inspired partial pressure of oxygen is 13.3kPa, alveolar oxygen pressure is 8kPa. (7) As hypoxia continues to…

1.Introduction COPD is the common chronic disease with the high rate of morbidity and mortality. It is estimated that COPD will become the third leading cause of death in 2020.1 The most noticeable symptoms of this disease are productive cough, shortness of breath and limited exercise capacity. While the main obvious pathophysiological hallmark of COPD is Expiratory Flow limitation which causes acute dynamic lung hyperinflation, dyspnea is increasingly implicated as the primary symptom causes…

acute medicine unit. The effectiveness of deep breathing exercises is strongly supported by research. Therefore, I have confidence that teaching deep breathing to my patients with COPD is an efficacious intervention that can improve function of the respiratory…