This problem concerns clinical negligence by omission for failing to diagnose Jane for meningitis and encephalitis. For the hospital to be held vicariously liable for the actions of its doctors‚ Jane must prove misdiagnosis was carried out negligently and directly caused the injury. Lord Bingham said‚ ‘For the purposes of analysis‚ and for the purpose of pleading‚ proving and resolving the claim‚ lawyers find it convenient to break the claim into its constituent elements: the duty‚ the breach‚ the
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battle.” The internal moral/ethical battle that lies within. The purpose of this paper is to evaluate a case study utilizing one of these ethical decision-making models. In this scenario involving a six-year-old‚ who has just been diagnosed with meningitis will be reviewed. In this scenario‚ the physician is requesting permission to treat from the parents. However‚ the child’s parents are divorced. The non- biological mother has primary custody
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illness? Provide evidence to support your theory. I believe that the cause of Sue’s illness is the bacteria Neisseria meningitis. After isolating and analyzing the pathogen DNA sequence‚ its match was very similar to that of Neisseria meningitis. After researching the symptoms of the disease‚ the symptoms it has on its victims are almost completely identical to that of Sue’s. Meningitis causes fever‚ severe headache‚ vomiting‚ nausea‚ Muscle pain‚ and sleepiness or confusion. Those symptoms match those
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Infection 3. Rickettsia prowazekii Typhus (Lice) 4. Rickettsia rickettsii RMSF (Ticks) 5. Neisseria gonorrhea Gonorrhea 6. Neisseria meningitidis Meningococcal Meningitis 7. Legionella pneumophila Water-BornePneumonia (Immuno-Compromised) 8. Pseudomonas aeruginosa Burn Injuries/UTI/Nosocomial Infections (QUAT) 9. Vibrio cholerae Cholera (Pandemics)
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Credits/Awarded Unit title-Clinical audit skill by open college network WEST MID LAND REGION. 3- As Data Management training Pediatrics Bacterial Meningitis Surveillance Data Collection organized by The Ethiopian Health & Nutrition Research Institute (EHNRI) in Collaboration with WHO Ethiopia from 29 October to 01November2012 4- Pediatrics Bacterial Meningitis Surveillance Data Collection organized by The Ethiopian Health & Nutrition Research Institute (EHNRI) in Collaboration with WHO Ethiopia from
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School officials are concerned about a possible outbreak of bacterial meningitis on campus. In order to diagnose bacterial meningitis‚ it is necessary to obtain a sample of cerebral spinal fluid using a spinal tap. Since this procedure is extremely invasive and painful‚ only those patients doctors feel are at greatest risk for the disease will be tested. Use the spinal fluid samples to identify those who are infected with meningitis and to trace how this disease may have spread amongst the students
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Pharmaceutical Companies and Ethics It would be a mistake to claim that the pharmaceutical industry has not contributed to a better way of life and a better standard of living. They have come up with treatments for cancer-in some types of cancer they have even come up with the cure. It would also be naïve however to pretend that there are not some issues that have come up throughout the years that lead us to question whether the pharmaceutical industry’s main concern is the well being of the patients
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antibiotics from cell before they can function) Morphology: Pleomorphic bicilli Motility: non-motile Gram reaction: gram negative Requirement growth: facultative anaerobe Fastidious (do not survive in surface very long) It was the first cause of meningitis before vaccine Requires X & V factors for growth (due to their inability to synthesize important parts of the cytochrome system needed for
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http://www.islandhealth.nhs.uk/index.php?option=com_content&task=view&id=15&Itemid=57 http://www.mb-hs.com/coshh-hazardous-substances.htm http://www.nhs.uk/conditions/Head-injury-minor/Pages/Introduction.aspx http://www.nhs.uk/Conditions/Meningitis/Pages/Causes.aspx. http://www.patient.co.uk/health/ Tassoni.P‚ Beith.K‚ Bulman.K‚ Elridge.H‚ (2007)‚ Childcare and Education‚ (CACHE L3‚ 4th edition)‚ Heinemann‚ Essex.
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or erythema multiforme after 3-21 days. Abscess formation can also be found on PE and unifocal bone or joint lesions if MS involvement. It can involve several organs such as the spleen‚ liver‚ lymph nodes‚ and the CNS can be involved resulting in meningitis.
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