Severe acute respiratory syndrome

Public Health Problem Severe acute respiratory syndrome also known as SARS was caused by an unfamiliar animal coronavirus that highly took advantage of the “wet markets” in southern China to adapt and succeed as an infectious virus between humans. Hospitals and international travel were the main pathways that led to a local outbreak and eventually to a global scale. According to the World Health Organization (WHO) between November 2002 and July 2003, the outbreak of SARS caused 8,096 cases and…

1. What factors predisposed Mr. W. to acute kidney injury? Some of the factors that caused Mr. W’s acute kidney injury are fever of 38.5° C, severe abdominal pain & nausea due to pancreatic inflammation with intra-abdominal ascites. One of the symptoms of ascites is infection which can cause kidney failure if not treated (ACG, 2013). Two different CT scan with contrast media performed can result to contrast-induced nephropathy due to preexisting decline in renal function. CIN can be defined as…

deterioration in tissue and organ function (Paterson, 2012). The acute chest syndrome is a vaso-occlusive crisis within the lungs with evidence of a new infiltrate on chest x-ray. The patient is two years old and may not be able to localize pain. His symptoms may include cough, increasing respiratory rate, heart rate, hypoxia, and progressive respiratory distress (Marcdante & Kliegman, 2015). Early awareness of an acute chest syndrome is focused on the prevention of arterial hypoxemia. It would…

There are several forms of SCD but the most severe is simply called sickle cell anemia; the dysfunctional hemoglobin molecule, called hemoglobin S (Hb S), assumes an unusual shape when it is subject to deoxygenation or dehydration (McCance & Huether, 2014). In a normal person, all hemoglobin molecules are shaped like…

In the article, “Compressive Forces and Computed Topography-derived Positive End-expiratory Pressure in Acute Respiratory Distress Syndrome” (Cressoni et al. 2014), the researchers' hypothesis was that there was a direct correlation between lung recruitability and positive end-expiratory pressure (PEEP). This would validate the prevailing notion that higher PEEP is only for patients with higher lung recruitability. Previous studies have led to advancements in the field such as the switch from…

They are beneficial in describing and measuring the effects a disaster has on a population. These measurements can later be used to determine the effect of the relief responses. Epidemiological indicators are categorized as quantitative or qualitative. Quantitative indicators are determined by concrete numeric information such as the number of people affected. Examples of quantitative indicators are prevalence, incidence, morbidity rate and mortality rate. Qualitative indicators are used to…

viruses are mostly associated in human disease and are divided into subtypes depends on hemagglutinin (HA) and neuraminidase (NA) serotype [1]. In lung disease, IVI exacerbates asthma, acute lung injury and COPD pathogenesis and also triggers pulmonary fibrosis during the recovery phase [4]. Especially, IVI poses severe health problem to infants, elderly and immunocompromised people [5]. To prevent the influenza infection and pandemics,…

medications, insect stings, aeroallergens and food allergies. This disorder can progress rapidly with multiple reactions throughout the body. Without medical intervention of severe reactions, death can occur. Anaphylaxis can cause contraction of bronchial smooth muscle, laryngeal edema, and vascular collapse which may result in respiratory distress, decreased blood pressure and shock (McCance & Huether,…

Narcotics are pain relieving drugs that work by receptors in the brain and dulling the sense of pain. Generally, is an opiate. The benefits are for use only the treatment of acute pain, cancer pain syndrome, chronic pain as low back pain, post-herpetic neuralgia. When is not malignant chronic pain was considered to be unresponsive to opioids, or the use of combination medicament with opioids. The narcotics as well their medical uses. The narcotics have effect as analgesic, sedation; and…

cared for this patient utilized this process, and concluded that the following diagnoses were the most likely: 1) Guillain-Barre syndrome 2) Multiple Sclerosis 3) Lyme Disease 4) Conversion Disorder Diagnosis Rules-In Rules-Out Guillain-Barre Syndrome Recent febrile illness, likely viral. Positive for bilateral weakness, numbness, paresthesia, finger dysesthesia. Severe hyporeflexia or areflexia. Lack of well demarcated sensory level (Andari, 2016). No evidence of damage to cranial nerves,…