conditions are copious secretions 25-30 ml/day‚ acute respiratory failure with retained secretions‚ acute lobar atelectasis‚ and V/Q abnormalities caused by unilateral lung disease. Chronic conditions that indicate therapy are cystic fibrosis‚ bronchiectasis‚ ciliary dyskinetic syndromes‚ and chronic bronchitis. First we must assess the need for bronchial hygiene therapy. We do this by looking at the patient’s history‚ presence of artificial airway‚ CXR‚ results of PFT‚ age‚ and any type of surgery
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Fundamentals of Nursing- Theory hours: 90 Clinical hrs: 325 1. Introduction to Nursing: - Meaning of nursing - Definitions of nursing - Scope of nursing - Role of a nurse - Health Team - Aims of nursing in the hospital and community 2. Nursing Profession - Nursing as a profession - Professional adjustment - Qualities of a nurse - Ethics in nursing 3. History of Nursing - Ancient period - Middle period - Modern
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Other risk factors are Cigarette smoking‚ recent viral respiratory infection (common cold‚ laryngitis‚ influenza)‚ Difficulty swallowing (due to stroke‚ dementia‚ Parkinson’s disease‚ or other neurological conditions)‚ Chronic lung disease (COPD‚ bronchiectasis‚ cystic fibrosis)‚ Cerebral palsy‚ other serious illnesses‚ such as heart disease‚ liver cirrhosis‚ or diabetes mellitus‚ Living in a nursing facility‚
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COPD COPD is characterized by airflow limitation that is poorly reversible. Cumulative‚ chronic exposure to cigarette smoking is the number one cause of the disease‚ but repeated exposure to secondhand smoke‚ air pollution and occupational exposure (to coal‚ cotton‚ grain) are also important risk factors. Chronic inflammation plays a major role in COPD pathophysiology. Smoking and other airway irritants cause neutrophils‚ T-lymphocytes‚ and other inflammatory
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University of Perpetual Help System – DALTA Alabang – Zapote Road‚ Pamplona‚ Las Piñas City College of Nursing A Case Study of Bronchial Asthma In Acute Exacerbation (BAIAE) Submitted by: Angela Marie Ferrer BSN 3B July 17‚ 2012 Definition A condition of the lungs characterized by widespread narrowing of the airways due to spasm of the smooth muscle‚ edema of the mucosa‚ and the presence of mucus in the lumen of the bronchi and bronchioles. Bronchial asthma is a chronic relapsing inflammatory
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at an older age when he attended the Edinburgh Academy. Stevenson entered the University of Edinburgh to study engineering. He showed from the start no enthusiasm for his studies. It Is said that Robert suffered from an illness known today as Bronchiectasis and could have possibly been sarcoidosis. Illness would continue persist in his Adult life which left him extremely thin. His frequent illnesses often kept him out of the picture in his first school and was taught for long periods by private
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Import Settings: Base Settings: Brownstone Default Information Field: Chapter Information Field: Client Needs Information Field: Cognitive Level Information Field: Difficulty Information Field: Integrated Process Information Field: Objective Information Field: Page and Header Highest Answer Letter: E Multiple Keywords in Same Paragraph: No Chapter: Chapter 51: Management of Patients With Immunodeficiency Multiple Choice 1. A healthy high school athlete is diagnosed with fever and cellulitis
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------------------------------------------------- Introduction Cystic fibrosis (also called CF or mucoviscidosis) is an autosomal recessive genetic disorder that affects most critically the lungs‚ and also the pancreas‚ liver‚ and intestine. It is characterized by abnormal transport of chloride and sodium across an epithelium‚ leading to thick‚ viscous secretions. The name refers to the characteristic scarring (fibrosis) and cyst formation within the pancreas that was first recognized in the
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Chapter 29: Nursing Management: Obstructive Pulmonary Diseases Test Bank MULTIPLE CHOICE 1. The nurse teaches a patient with chronic bronchitis about a new prescription for Advair Diskus (combined fluticasone and salmeterol). Which action by the patient would indicate to the nurse that teaching about medication administration has been successful? a. The patient shakes the device before use. b. The patient attaches a spacer to the Diskus. c. The patient rapidly inhales the medication. d. The patient
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FAILURE TO THRIVE INTRODUCTION Failure to thrive (FTT) is a medical term used in both pediatric and adult human medicine. it covers poor physical growth of any cause and does not imply abnormal intellectual‚ social‚ or emotional development‚ although of course it can subsequently be a cause of such pathologies. As written in Organon section -3 ‘’If the physician clearly perceives what is to be cured in disease‚ that is to say‚ in every individual case of the disease………’’.Here Hahnemann said ‘’perceive’’
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