Running Head: PNEUMONIA: THE SILENT KILLER Exploring Pneumonia: A Silent Killer Abstract This paper explores Pneumonia and the respiratory disease process associated with bacterial and viral pathogens most commonly located in the lung. The paper examines the process‚ symptoms and treatments most commonly viewed in patient cases of Pneumonia. My goal is to educate the reader and to warn of the Exploring Pneumonia: A Silent Killer Pneumonia is an infection of the lungs. Many
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INITIAL HISTORY • 32-year old white female • Has 5-day hx of fever‚ SOB‚ productive cough • R side pleuritic pain chest pain. Question #1. What else would you like to ask this patient about her history of present illness and past medical history? Answers: • How many times a year were + for pneumonia? Infections per year? • What was the onset of when this first started taking place? Timeline? • What Antibiotic therapies were used?
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BIOS275 Week 6 Homework 12. What serious adverse effect has been linked to the drug Accutane? The serious adverse effect that has been linked to the drug Accutuane is depression and suicide. This drug is only used to treat severe acne and not common acne. 15. What is a herpes zoster infection and what drugs are used to treat it? Herpes zoster infection or shingles occur from the reemergence of the same virus that first caused chickenpox in the patient. The virus remains dormant in the body until
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their population. 20. Donna’s superb campaign speech affected my decision about whom to vote for. 21. What affect will bleach have on this stain? 22. Lindsay believes the effect of this protest will be positive. 23. Do you know the side effects of Amoxicillin? 24. Smoking cigarettes can affect the
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suspended in Brucella broth (Merck‚ Germany) supplemented with 10% fetal calf serum and 2% L-cystein‚ and incubated overnight at 37°C in a microaerophilic rotary shaker (100 rpm). When the density of bacteria reached to a suitable concentration‚ amoxicillin solution was prepared in phosphate buffer and added to each tube at concentrations of MIC‚ 1/2 ‚1/4 and 1/8 MIC. The tubes were examined regularly each 12 h until 144 h in order to obtain coccoid forms. Bacterial morphology was determined by gram
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Enterococcus faecalis is resistant to most commonly used antibiotics like cephalosporins and aminoglycosides‚ and a new study suggests that its becoming more resistant to vancomysin. Treatment for an infection by Enterococcus faecalis would be amoxicillin if the organism is susteptible. Treatment for Enterococcus faecalis that is resistant would consist of taking linezolid and daptomycin. The results from the gram positive enterics included: Taxo P (optichin) Resistant to Optichin Bile Esculin
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Luckily‚ the prognosis of scarlet fever is good‚ (Davis‚ 2016) says that if a patient is treated with antibiotics‚ such as penicillin or amoxicillin‚ scarlet fever only has a mortality rate of 1%. The main risk of scarlet fever lies in the patients that do not get quickly diagnosed and thus do not receive treatment‚ because the mortality rate for those patients drastically increases to 15-20%. Overall‚ if identified and treated quickly‚ scarlet fever is not a very dangerous disease‚ even though it
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\ For my career I would like to be a pediatrician . I would like to be a pediatrician because I love to work with kids . I think they are very adorable and they interest me and I love to help them in there needs . A pediatrician is a child’s physician who provides Preventive health maintenance for healthy children ‚ Medical care for children who are acutely or chronically ill . pediatricians focus on babies‚ children‚ adolescents‚
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deaths at young ages. To illustrate this‚ the world life expectancy has doubled over the past two centuries from 45 years in 1920 up to 67 and more nowadays. Above all‚ a lot of other types of antibiotics were developed from penicillin‚ such as amoxicillin‚ which‚ in turn has treated other serious diseases and become innovation in medicine. To conclude‚ the invention of penicillin became a very important event in the history of
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TREATING TB. Keep in mind that Isonaizd(INH) is the established treatment for preventive therapy ‚ and the usual regimen is up to 300mg daily for adults. You can keep pts on for 6 months or 12 months with a positive CXR. Always give vitB6 when treating pts with INH. If there is a suspected resistance then use Rifampin (RIF) alone or in combo with the said INH. How do we treat current CLASSES III & IV diseases. The first line medications are used in combinations since these tend to delay
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