Septic shock

For instance, meningitis, which is a swelling of the brain, septic shock, which includes sporadic blood pressures and a decrease in the activity of the kidney, brain, and possibly other organs as a result of systemic infection, necrosis and bleeding, and swelling around the heart. There is a different rate of survival…

rate will indicate if the patient is septic and in need of urgent medical management (Kinnear 2004). Note that older patients with abdominal pain caused by an infectious process may not present with a raised temperature. Immune response appears to decline with age and this may increase the risk of infectious diseases and their complications (Miller 1996). Weori raie Tachycardia irelativetoage)may indicate pain, fear, infection or hypovolaemic or septic shock. A tachycardie patient with abdominal…

Cancer is an unusual growth of cells, also referred to as malignancy. Breast cancer, lung cancer, skin cancer, prostate cancer, colon cancer, and lymphoma are among the different types of cancer and symptoms may vary according to type. Tobacco use, aging, heredity, alcohol use, poor nutrition, obesity, and radiation or chemical exposure are the most common risk factors of developing cancer. Some of these causes are preventable, but others such as aging and heredity are not. Over time, several…

having a better life one day for herself and her daughter, Rosie crossed the border into Mexico and obtained a much cheaper and unsafe illegal abortion. Jimènez spent the last week of her life in a hospital in Texas and eventually died slowly from septic shock. The Center for Disease Control would later go on to report that around the time that Jimènez was in the hospital, five other women were also getting treatments at various hospitals in Texas following illegal abortion procedures in…

Most of the clinical cases of P. aeruginosa infections are related with the compromised host defense. It can cause both acute and chronic infections. An acute infection is ventilator-associated pneumonia, which is aggressive and commonly leads to septic shock and death. P. aeruginosa is noted for its…

Jadyn Armbruster Mr. Konen English 11 18 March 2024 In my assigned novel Brave New World by Aldous Huxley, a very prevalent social issue is medical Malpractice. In this dystopian society, all children are created in a lab. They are organized by a series of last names and levels, alpha, beta, delta, etc. These roles determine their level of competence. However, the characters working with the embryos, often tamper with them. They do things like adding alcohol to the tubes, or adding more or less…

A Clash of Cultures American practice is to isolate medicine as its own trade, while Hmong practice is to accept that medicine is intertwined with all aspects of life. This cultural base is what fostered miscommunication between the Lees and the American medical system, and is what caused both sides of Lia’s medical care to be wildly contradictory. Neither the Lees nor Lia’s doctors budged on what they deemed to be correct medical practice, and misunderstandings between the two sides are what…

I-Kappa-B-alpha which is often abbreviated IkBa is a protein whose role is to mask the nuclear localization signals to inhibit the NF-kB (nuclear factor kappa beta) proteins by keeping them in inactive states and isolating them in the cytoplasm, this inhibits the NF-kB transcription factors and blocks the NF-kB transcription factors from binding with DNA. NF-kB is a protein complex that is responsible for controlling cytokine production, transcription of DNA, cell survival, and plays a key role…

An 18-year-old male is brought to the emergency department after suffering from yet another headache. The headaches are abrupt in onset, last for about an hour or so, and then subside for some time before the next episode occurs. The patient has had about three to five episodes per day for the past week and describes the pain as a 10/10 that localizes to either side of his head during an episode but never is felt on both sides at the same time. Associated symptoms during these episodes include a…

Ebola Zaire in non-human primates: a threat to biodiversity conservation To most of the world, Ebola Zaire haemorrhagic fever, also simply known as ‘the Ebola virus’ (EBOV) (Hayden, 2014), was relatively unknown until early 2014 when an outbreak in West Africa seemingly appeared out of nowhere. Yet outbreaks have been reported in primates, both human and non-human, since its discovery in 1976 (P. Ascenzi et al. 2008), and the outbreaks seem to be increasing in frequency. Several studies leave us…