Septic shock

In case patient goes into septic shock, I had to know what the best treatment to use, to prevent the patient form going into multiorgan dysfunction. When a patient is showing signs of sepsis the nurse has the responsibility to act quickly, and this conference demonstrated all the important…

Biographical Data FRP is a 68-year-old single male born on March 7, 1947 in Marshfield, Wisconsin. He currently has Medicare part A and B as well as Medicaid and his code status is Do Not Resuscitate (DNR) and Do Not Intubate (DNI). FRP’s parents are both German immigrants, but FRP does not speak the language. He stated he speaks English and learned to speak a small amount of Filipino while stationed in the Philippines as a Columban priest. He taught sign language to deaf children and was a…

One third of our composition of the gut microbiota resembles to our parents composition of microbiota. But after being born, the 2/3rd of our composition of our microbiota is dynamic up until the age of 3. There are several factors that affect the composition of the gut microbiota throughout our lives but it is most effective on newborns. The first factor that affects the composition of the microbiota is how the baby is delivered. (2) Vaginally delivered babies are colonized by vaginal microbes…

found that between 2005 and January 2011, 517 Malaysian babies were “dumped”. This gained us international attention, with overseas media calling it “Malaysia’s baby-dumping epidemic”. Case 2 In July 2015, the nation was in shock when a baby girl was found dead in a septic tank. That is not the end of the story. The baby was cut into 8 separate parts which were found floating in the tank. The act was done by her own biological mother, who had given birth in the toilet of her grandfather’s house…

Abstract This paper investigates the origins, human-to-human transmission and the physiological changes in humans due to the Middle East Respiratory Syndrome Coronavirus (MERS-CoV) and Severe Acute Respiratory Coronavirus (SARS-CoV). Research shows that these two coronaviruses are both deadly and severe their diseases are. They both have caused assorted respiratory difficulties including pneumonia, organ dysfunction, bronchitis,cough and fever, and deficiency of breath. SARS and MERS are very…

difficulties finding therapies for sepsis because of the many different causative organisms, patient underlying health conditions, and patient immunity. Several clinical studies have noticed a link between lipid metabolism and systemic inflammation. In septic shock, patients can have an abnormal lipid profile which may be due to de novo lipogenesis.¹ The liver…

The 2000 Presidential election was the first time George W. Bush ran for president. He ran against Dick Cheney and won. The electoral votes were 271-266 with George having more. This was a significant election because it was the 4th election in all of American history where the candidate that had more electoral votes did not have more popular votes. In the 2008 Presidential Election first time candidate Barack Obama went against John McCain. Obama was the democratic candidate and John was the…

Utilizing Nursing Informatics in Sepsis Quality Improvement According to the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) (2016) from 1999-2014 over 2 million Americans have died with sepsis listed as a contributing cause, making sepsis the 11th leading cause of death in the United States. Jones et al. (2016) and Jones et al. (2015) report sepsis costing hospitals over 20 billion dollars in 2011, and Medicare and Medicaid reimbursed over 17 billion of those costs. Thus, the CMS initiated…

Shared the same room with the 1st patient. • May 21, 2015: monitoring begin for symptoms • May 25, 2015: developed symptoms • May 25, 2015: transferred to nationally designated medical center • May 25, 2015: tested positive for MERS-CoV • Risk Factors: o Close contact with anyone who is experiencing a fever, cough or shortness of breath and has traveled from the Arabian Peninsula within the past fourteen days should monitor their health beginning with last day of exposure and seek medical…

Other potential complications that can follow acute pyelonephritis can range from developing abscesses due to the bacteria forming pockets on the kidneys, which can be fatal if they break off and spread to other parts of the body. Septic shock caused by urosepsis is a systemic infection that is the result of unresolved bacteria that could lead to death (Lewis et al., 2014). More complications can range from acute respiratory distress syndrome, recurrent or chronic pyelonephritis, and…