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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Antimicrobials Anti-bacterials * Need a drug selectively toxic to bacterial cells but won’t harm human cells * Many drugs that achieve this still have side effects as every drug is a poison Bacterial Infections * Immunocompromised especially vulnerable * Opportunistic infection – Infection caused by pathogens that usually do not cause disease in a healthy immune system. A compromised immune system however presents ‘opportunity’ for pathogen to infect * Prophylaxis
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Meningitis: Spinal Meningitis Got Me Down Meningitis is a highly infectious disease that is very well known throughout the world today. It is an inflammation of the meninges of the brain and spinal cord. In 1805‚ Meningitis was discovered during an outbreak in Geneva‚ Switzerland. Furthermore‚ in 1996 Africa experienced the largest recorded outbreak of meningitis that caused more than 250‚000 people to be infected with meningitis and more than 25‚000 were killed. The largest and most recurring
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1.1 ORIGIN OF THE REPORT This report has been prepared as a requirement of the internship program BUS 400 under the BBA program of BRAC University. For my internship program‚ I got the opportunity to work at country‟s leading pharmaceutical company‚ world reputed Square Pharmaceuticals Limited (SPL). I was placed under one of the most important departments in the company Product Management Department (PMD). Basically PMD performs the all planning‚ implementation of plans as part of marketing management
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while producing a healthy‚ wholesome food (Salfer‚ J‚2015) What are medically important drugs? Medically important drugs are drugs that are used in the treatment of both humans and livestock. The products affected include Penicillins‚ Sulfas‚ Cephalosporins‚ Quinolones‚ Fluoroquinolones‚ Tetracyclines‚
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I. INTRODUCTION This is the case of patient MCS‚ a 62 year old female who came to Ospital ng Guiginto with a chief complaint of productive cough with associated difficulty of breathing & intermittent fever. She was admitted on July 16‚ 2012. She was diagnosed with Pneumonia with manifestations of Asthma. Pneumonia is an inflammation of the lung parenchyma commonly caused by microbial agents. Classically‚ pneumonia has been categorized as being bacterial or typical‚ atypical‚ anaerobic/cavitary
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STUDENT NAME: _____________________________ DATE: ______ DISEASE PROCESS STUDY Purpose To provide a thorough review of a disease process at the cellular or organ level Link essential assessments and nursing care priorities to the client’s response to their disease process Disease Process: ________Pneumonia_____________________________________________ Pathophysiology at the Cellular or Organ Level Pneumonia is described in Tabers cyclopedia medical dictionary‚ “as inflammation of
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Square Pharmaceutical company (Sample) Introduction The pharmaceutical market in Bangladesh is pretty small compared to the population size of the country‚ mainly because of the lack of spending power of the population. Pharmaceutical spending is also amongst the lowest in the world in per capita terms. Healthcare expenditures consist of only 3.35% of GDP. However‚ increased awareness of healthcare‚ increase in per capita income‚ emergence of private healthcare services and the government’s increased
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Diagnosis of Clostridium Difficile INTRODUCTION Clostridium Difficile Infection is currently the most commonly found cause of diarrhoea in relation to antibiotic treatments in hospitals. Although C.difficile infections are common‚ there are only a limited methods of diagnosing accurately if a patient has been affected. I will be discussing methods of diagnosis‚ pros and cons and statistical facts regarding C.difficile infection. METHODS OF LABORATORY DIAGNOSIS There are several methods
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COVENANT UNIVERSITY Department of Biological Sciences NAME: OBUEKWE CHUKWUEMEKA AZUBUIKE MAT NO: 12CQ014230 PROGRAMME: MICROBIOLOGY COURSE: MCB 212 (MYCOLOGY) TOPIC: THE IMPORTANCE OF FUNGI IN; MEDICINE INDUSTRY THE ENVIRONMENT {DR OLASEINDE G.} INTRODUCTION Fungi are tremendously important to human society and the planet we live on
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