Staphylococcus Aureus Clinicals Lesson 1.1 Ms. Marino Chelsea Trussell October 8‚ 2013 Staphylococcus Aureus [staf-uh-luh-kok-uh-s]‚ commonly known as Staph is an infection that can damage the skin and tissue of the body by either an Abscess or Cellulitis. It is also known as the most important bacteria’s that cause disease in people. Staph was first found in the 1800’s in Aberdeen‚ United Kingdom‚ by the surgeon Sir Alexander Ogston. He found the bacteria in pus from a surgical Abscess
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Patient satisfaction is critically important to the health care industry today due to the competitive nature of the field. Patients have many choices when it comes to seeking medical attention‚ and hospitals are dependent on return business to stay operational. Hospitals have traditionally utilized the semi-private room model in order to increase profitability. A semi-private room is a room shared by two patients. Each patient is given their own bed‚ but they usually share a single bathroom.
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infectious disease? For example‚ the name of the bacteria‚ virus‚ or parasite. A) Staphylococcus aureus bacteria‚ also called “staph”‚ cause the infectious agent (pathogen) MRSA. MRSA or “mercer” stands for methicillin-resistant Staphylococcus aureus. This strain of staph is resistant to most antibiotics and can be fatal. MRSA Staph infections are caused by excessive antibiotic use‚ which has resulted from routine prescriptions for colds‚ flu‚ and viral infections that are unresponsive to these drugs
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• Bratzler‚et.al. (2004) Antimicrobial Prophylaxis for Surgery: An Advisory Statement from the National Surgical Infection Prevention Project. CID 2004:38 MRSA • For patients at high risk for MRSA carriage routine surveillance cultures at the time of admission is recommended. • Use of vancomycin if MRSA colonization is documented. • MRSA infections result in increased cost‚ hospital stay and mortality. • •
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“One and Done: New antibiotic could provide single-dose option” This article I found particularly fascinating to read. Currently the treatment for the MRSA infection is approx. 10 days of antibiotic infusions twice a day. A study that has been completed by Duke Medicine researchers claims that they currently have a single-dose antibiotic named Oritavancin that is just as effective as other treatments. Dr. G. Ralph Corey is the lead author of this particular study. He conducted 2 clinical trials
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started as something that her doctors and mother were not worried about turned into something very bad. After testing‚ Addies was found to have MRSA‚ a super bacteria that is resistant to most antibiotics. She was admitted to the hospital and was put on a ventilator‚ but the ventilator contained another kind of superbug that was even worse than the MRSA that she had been admitted for. While she was given various antibiotics‚ they never worked for long and the situation looked very bad for Addie
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equipment. Infections are also commonly spread by devises used during a medical procedure and anything else the patient may come in contact with that has not been properly cleaned such as a call bell or side rail. For instance say you have a patient with MRSA and one of their family members leave the room failing to wash their hands‚ goes to the front desk to ask for a glass of water for the patient in the mean time she placed her contaminated hands on the
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Mrs X is an 84 year old British lady. She has type 2 diabetes‚ hypotension and she is also MRSA positive. She was admitted to her local hospital where she was diagnosed with acute coronary syndrome and pulmonary oedema‚ but has now been transferred from her local hospital to this current care setting because of this diagnosis. After admission patient Mrs X had an angiogram‚ via right femoral approach‚ which has shown multi vessel disease (LMS‚ LAD‚ LCX and RCA). She had a failed angiogram via right
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then exposed to higher concentrations of methicillin and the process repeated until a strain of methicillin-resistant S. aureus (MRSA) was generated. To test your hypothesis‚ you perform an experiment by spreading the original strain of S. aureus and the MRSA strain onto agar plates containing doses of methicillin used in the hospital‚ and only the MSRA survives. MRSA infections occur in humans (homo sapiens). Homo sapiens are in which domain?___Eukarya. You notice over the past month‚ many students
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References: 1. Antibiotic resistant Staph infection MRSA fact sheet for patients‚ County of Orange. Accessed at: http://www.ochealhinfo.com/docs/public/epi/mrsa/MRSA-FactSheet.pdf 2. LaPrade‚ Robert‚ MD. PhD. The Steadman Clinic. Pre-Operative Bathing Instructions. Retrieved: March 2‚ 2013. Accessed at: http://drrobertlaprademd.com/pre-operative-bathing-instructions
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