SCENARIO 12 FINAL REPORT REPRESENTED BY – GROUP C Leader :- Firdaus Ahmed Researcher :-Piyush ‚ Bhanu Pratap ‚ Lovedeep Editor :- Akash Rajput & SK. Hasanoor Typist :- Lalchand Proof Reader :- Rahul Bhaskar Case :- A 17-year-old female presents to her local hospital ’s E.R. at
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CASE STUDY A 49years old white male present to the emergency room complained of choking while eating dinner at the nursing home he resides. He has a significant past medical history of traumatic brain injury‚ Asthma‚ Pneumonia‚ seizure disorder and Spasm quadriparesis. Patient denies shortness of breath‚ chest pain and fever‚ family history is noncontributory. On Physical examination patient is well nourished‚ no signs of distress‚ alert and awake and the vital signs reveal * Blood pressure
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Emphysema is one of several diseases usually labeled collectively as chronic obstructive pulmonary disease (COPD). It’s the most common cause of death from respiratory disease in the United States; approximately 2 million Americans are afflicted with the disease. Emphysema(COPD) appears to be more prevalent in men than women. Postmortem findings reveal few adult lungs without some degree of emphysema. Causes Emphysema(COPD) may be caused by a genetic deficiency of alpha 1 -antitrypsin (AAN)
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deal with or one that can be very brutal. There are many things to know about Haemophilus Influenzae. One thing is that it is an bacteria. Another thing is besides Influenza the bacteria causes many more diseases. Three of those diseases being Pneumonia‚
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Histoplasmosis There are many different types of disease that affect different systems of the body. Most of them can be treated and cured with antibiotics. One disease that affect the respiratory system is histoplasmosis. This disease is caused by inhaling spores of a fungus called Histoplasma capsulatum. Even though diseases can be dangerous this one is not contagious because it can not be transmitted from an infected person or animal. Histoplasmosis affect a person’s lungs. The symptoms
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resistant to many classes of antibiotics. The most frequent are resistance to aminoglycosides‚ fluoroquinolones‚ tetracyclines‚ chloramphenicol andtrimethoprim/sulfamethoxazole.(3)Infection with carbapenem-resistant klebsiella pneumonia (CRKP) or carbapenemase-producing klebsiella pneumonia is emerging as an important challenge in health-care settings(4) In the USA‚ it was first described in North Carolina in 1996:(5) since then CRKP has been identified in 41 states;(6)and is recovered routinely in certain
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PH210 PHARMACY CLERKSHIP HOSPITAL PUTRAJAYA Case 5 Congestive Cardiac Failure Nephrotic Syndrome Community-Acquired pneumonia Siti Hasmah Bt Mohd Suffian (2006200606) CASE SUBJECT Name: MAM Gender: Male Age: 24 years old Race: Malay Weight: 138 kg BMI: 55 (morbidly obese) Height: 159cm DOA: 21st March 2010 SUBJECTIVE Chief complaint: • bilateral lower limb swelling for the past 2 weeks. • scrotal swelling for the past 3 days but noted on DOA had progressively
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Many intensive care unit (ICU) patients with multiple traumatic injuries are susceptible to pulmonary contusion. A pulmonary contusion is an injury to the lung which is a common result after a blunt chest trauma from incidents such as vehicular accidents and assaults or after penetrating chest trauma from explosions or shock waves (Ganie et al‚ 2013). Also‚ although it is more commonly associated with chest traumas such as pneumothorax‚ rib fractures or hemothorax‚ pulmonary contusion is also related
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COPD‚ chronic bronchitis‚ and pneumonia. The majority of lung diseases are the result of smoking‚ infections‚ and genetics. Lung disease primarily impacts two areas: the airways and the air sacs of the lungs. The airways include the windpipe and bronchial tubes. Asthma‚ COPD‚ bronchitis‚ emphysema‚ and cystic fibrosis are all examples of diseases that impact the
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is 1 of the top 3 causes of communityacquired pneumonia‚1 accounting for 3% to 15% of all cases.2 According to estimates from the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention‚ although 18 000 to 25 000 cases of pneumonia due to this organism occur each year‚ the diagnosis is reported in only 1200 to 1500 cases because of the nonspecific signs and symptoms of the disease and inadequate testing for Legionella.3 High mortality is associated with pneumonia caused by L pneumophila‚ especially in patients
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