Clostridium Botulinum Microbiology 204 Professor G. Corwall June 25‚ 2014 Botulism is a rare neuromuscular disorder caused by toxins produced from Clostridium botulinum. Food borne botulism most commonly occurs when food has been improperly processed or stored. Witoonpanich (2008) stated that while mass contamination of commercial food products occasionally occurs‚ most cases of botulism can be directly linked to home canned products or in small batch "artisanal" foods.
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syndrome‚ where the infant experiences lethargy (ACOG 2008). Ancillary drugs are also used to reduce the risk of aspiration during surgery. Because of the inhibitory actions of general anaesthetics and drugs used to induce short-term paralysis for intubation‚ many of our protective reflexes such as the swallowing
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Analytic and Continental Philosophy of Ventilator Associated Pneumonia Hospital acquired infections (HAI) have become a major problem for patients’ outcomes and hospitals due to increase costs. The advancement made in medicine‚ technology‚ and general knowledge has increased the life expectancy. With this increase‚ patients are however sicker and have multiple comorbidities that make their care increasingly complex. Barrett‚ Smith‚ Elixhauser‚ Honigman‚ and Pines (2014) researched the utilization
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Mrs. Smith I am Dr. Hercules I have been following Mr. Drakes case since he arrived. He came in whit very high fever and presented a state of confusion. At first it seemed like he had symptoms of the flu since we have been receiving many cases of it and deiced to run some test. We did a blood work‚ urine and also a chest radiograph and everything was normal on that end. Since the confusion was evident we also performed a magnetic resonance which gives us a pretty good image of the brain and discovered
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| Ventilator Associated Pneumonia | Heather Heim‚ Erin Lovett and Crystal Inchiocca | | Molloy College | | | Ventilator-associated pneumonia (VAP) is a nosocomial‚ or hospital acquired‚ infection that affects people who need mechanical assistance to breathe. VAP is the leading cause of nosocomial infection and nosocomial related death in adult critically ill patients when defined as new onset nosocomial infection that occurs more than 48 hours after the patient
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Introduction: Respiratory Syncytial Disease (RSV) is an illness caused by a virus and commonly affects infants and children under two years of age. I. Causes a. RSV is a childhood viral illness and one of the most frequent reasons infants are admitted to the hospital. RSV usually occurs within the first 3 years of life but can occur at any age. Infections are most common between the months of November and April but can happen any time of the year. Children less than 2 years of age‚ especially premature
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Print Challenging nursing’s sacred cows Issue Date: April 2008 Vol. 3 Num. 4 Authors: Carol A. Rauen‚ MS‚ CCNS‚ PCCNKathleen Vollman‚ MS‚ MSN‚ CCNSRichard B. Arbour‚ MSN‚ CCRN‚ CNRNMarianne Chulay‚ PhD‚ RN‚ FAAN Until recently‚ healthcare practitioners have answered questions about clinical practices with their best guesses‚ intuition‚ and tradition. But evidence-based practice (EBP) compels us to use solid scientific evidence instead‚ and to base nursing protocols on this evidence. As defined
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The trachea was intubated with a 14-gauge angiocatheter. Anesthesia was maintained using 2% isoflurane in 2:1 N2O/O2. Following intubation‚ rats were placed on a thermal blanket to regulate body temperature (37 °C) and the animals head placed in a stereotaxic frame. A parasagittal craniectomy (center of craniectomy at AP: +4.0 mm‚ L: +2.8 mm from lambda) 8 mm in diameter was performed
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is has a stable temperature. For this reason‚ most babies in the NICU will not have their first bath until weeks or months after they have been born. One thing that is not common that I had the opportunity to see was a patient with a nasogastric intubation (aspiration). The reason for her having this was because she had an abundance of fluids in her stomach‚ even after she had delivered her baby‚ and these fluids were not draining. Although I did not get to observe this next condition first hand due
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Crit Care Clin 20 (2004) 435 – 451 Principles and practice of withdrawing life-sustaining treatments Gordon D. Rubenfeld‚ MD MSc Harborview Medical Center‚ Division of Pulmonary and Critical Care Medicine‚ University of Washington‚ 325 Ninth Avenue‚ Seattle‚ WA 98104-2499‚ USA Most deaths in intensive care units occur after decisions to limit or withdraw life support [1‚2]. Despite an extensive literature on whether to withdraw life support‚ little attention has been given to how to withdraw
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