Activity 3.3.4: Respiratory Therapy Resume Introduction A baby comes into the world too early and her lungs are not yet fully developed. An elderly man who has smoked for years now finds himself gasping for breath. A teenage boy who has always struggled with asthma wants to improve his ability to play team sports. A young woman pulled out of the water after a near drowning finds it painful to take in and expel air. All of the patients described above need assistance getting sufficient amounts
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The Asthma Epidemic: Diagnosis‚ Treatments and Management‚ all prospects towards a better future Asthma is a multifactorial chronic disorder that has displayed a significant increase in prevalence and incidence worldwide over the past two decades‚ particularly in developed countries (Hazeldine‚ 2013). The World Health Organization estimates that 235 million people currently suffer from this common respiratory condition. Despite this growth‚ over that same period of time‚ global asthma mortality
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Pulmonary fibrosis (PF) is the condition in which the alveolar wall is thickened by scarring‚ causes the patients to have shortness of breath‚ fatigue and lower the oxygen saturation. PF may have definable causes but in many cases‚ the causes remain unknown. Those cases with unknown causes called idiopathic pulmonary fibrosis (IPF). Air is drawn in by the nose and mouth‚ passes through the bronchi to the bronchioles and finally reaches millions of alveoli. Around the alveolar is a group of many capillaries
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Shakespeare Sance Homework # 4 The factors that would cause the lung to collapse are elastic recoil and high surface tension. And the factors that prevent the lungs from collapse are negative intrapulmonary pressure and surfactant. During expiration : volume increase and pressure decrease During inspiration : volume decrease and pressure increase The role of surfactant is to decrease surface tension by more than 40 times. And it’s effect on surface tension is to prevent them from PO2
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Pneumocystis pneumonia Pneumocystis pneumonia (PCP) or pneumocystosis is a form of pneumonia‚ caused by the yeast-like fungus (which had previously been erroneously classified as a protozoan) Pneumocystis jirovecii. The older name Pneumocystis carinii‚‚ (which now only applies to the Pneumocystis species that is found in rats)‚ is still in common usage. As a result‚ Pneumocystis pneumonia (PCP) is also known as Pneumocystis jiroveci pneumonia and (incorrectly) asPneumocystis carinii pneumonia. PROMINENT
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Overview Patient is a 83 year-old female‚ presented to the ED on 7/2/13 with complaints of chest pain caused by what family believed to be aspiration pneumonia‚ also with worsening stage 4 sacral wound. Patient has a past medical history of a subdural hematoma secondary to a fall from a ladder‚ IDDM‚ bleeding gastric ulcer‚ and aspiration pneumonia. EKG and cardiac enzymes were ordered in the ED‚ EKG was unremarkable with a normal sinus rate and rhythm‚ enzymes within acceptable range. Patient sacral
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windpipe of a person who has dysphagia‚ and coughing or throat clearing cannot remove it then the food or liquid that stays in the windpipe may enter the lungs. This can create a chance for harmful bacteria to grow and a serious infection (aspiration pneumonia) can result (Groher & Crary‚ 2010). There are many disorders that can lead an individual to have difficulty swallowing. One example would be when someone suffers a stroke. Swallowing involves organized interactions between several areas of the
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Topic Selected The topic of pneumonia is appropriate for a teaching plan for the older adult population due to the fact that older adults are at risk for acquiring pneumonia. Description of the Teaching Plan The learning objectives for this teaching plan are health promotion and prevention. As nurses it is important to promote good health and prevent disease. One goal for this teaching plan is that students will be able to promote respiratory heath in their patients. Another goal is that
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December 17th‚ 1899 – exactly seven years since Mr. Pneumonia touched the life of Johnsy. Mr. Pneumonia’s icy cold hands no longer affected the people of Greenwich Village. As he walked along the streets‚ no one seemed to care. He walked briskly passing a squatty flat on the corner of 6th avenue; this small flat was the studio of one of Mr. Pneumonia’s survivors – Johnsy. “Well this is it‚ Sudie.” said Johnsy‚ as she drew out a deep breath and picked up the last of her bags. Johnsy‚ now after
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an advocate for sick and needy people who have no body to speak for them ‚and not only that‚ to be their companion. Ashley‚ was diagnosed with Rhado myosarcoma and during her treatment she under went various miss treatment such as aspiration pneumonia‚ wrong blood type‚ wrong medications and infiltrations . October 15th‚ 1998-January 18th‚ 2010. Secondly‚ I am trying to revitalize myself‚ you see when Ashley died I died too. I want to gain the energy to beat my depression and to graduate
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