Sepsis is a common and devastating syndrome that represents a significant healthcare burden worldwide. Sepsis is a potentially life-threatening complication of an infection. It is a serious bodywide response to bacteremia or another infection. Sepsis occurs when chemicals released into the bloodstream to fight the infection trigger inflammatory responses throughout the body. This inflammation can trigger a cascade of changes that can damage multiple organ systems‚ causing them to fail.(1) When accompanied
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Definitions of Sepsis ! Sepsis is often referred to as either blood poisoning or septicaemia. Sepsis occurs when an infections spreads through the blood‚ causing symptoms to develop throughout the whole body. It is where the body’s defence mechanisms respond to an infection in some part of the body which resulting in symptoms such as fever‚ hypothermia‚ heart rate greater than 90 beats per minute‚ altered mental status‚ swelling of the extremities‚ and high blood glucose in diabetic patients. The
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Neonatal sepsis is caused by bacteria. The infant may come in contact with bacteria during pregnancy‚ birth‚ or from the environment after birth. Early onset sepsis is caused by an infection from the mother. It may pass to the infant from the placenta or birth canal during birth. Antibiotics may be given to high risk mothers‚ during labor. They have been able to prevent early onset bacterial sepsis in some infants. Late onset sepsis is caused by bacteria from the caregiving environment. Some risk
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Statins and Other Lipid-lowering Medicines | Health Print | Patient.co.uk Page 1 of 3 Statins and Other Lipid-lowering Medicines Statin medicines reduce the blood cholesterol level. This helps to prevent heart disease‚ stroke and related diseases in people at increased risk. Most people are not troubled by side-effects. However‚ if you take a statin‚ tell a doctor if you develop unexplained muscle pain‚ tenderness or weakness (which may be due to a rare‚ but serious‚ side-effect). What
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Patient education is a vital part of patient-centered nursing care. To promote learning and better health‚ the nurse utilizes the nursing process which includes: assessment‚ diagnosis‚ planning‚ implementation and evaluation (Potter‚ Perry‚ Stockert & Hall‚ 2013‚ p. 206). First‚ a thorough assessment of the patient’s learning needs‚ readiness to learn‚ and any barriers to learning needs to be completed. With this information‚ a nursing diagnosis and goals can be established and a plan can be developed
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Patient education is described as any set of devised educational undertakings created to improve patients’ health. Its main objective is to conserve or to improve the health of the patient or‚ in some cases‚ to slow down the progression of the disease process. However‚ patient education goes beyond the main objective. An informed and educated patient can actively contribute in his or her own therapy‚ improve results‚ help detect mistakes before they happen‚ and decrease length of hospital stay
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and institute procedures‚ which will decrease‚ prevent and control the occurrence of hospital acquired infections among patients‚ personnel‚ and visitors. We support the rights of our patients by treating our community with respect‚ compassion and dignity‚ while providing high quality service in the most effective‚ efficient and safest way possible. The goal of the SRMC Infection Control Plan is to utilize surveillance methodologies‚ prevention
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Sepsis remains a frequent and deadly healthcare problem in hospitals across the United States and affects millions around the world. Despite decades of intense research and advances in technology‚ sepsis continues to take a heavy toll in morbidity and mortality. According to American Association of Critical Care Nurses (2010)‚ “Mortality from sepsis is greater that breast cancer‚ lung cancer‚ and colon cancer combined and is the number one cause of death in the non-coronary ICU” (page 2). Severe
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• SEVERE SEPSIS SURVIVAL: A CASE STUDY‚ FROM HOPELESSNESS TO HOPEFULNESS. Halima K‚1 Iliyasu G‚2 Farouq MD‚2 1Intensive Care Unit‚ Aminu Kano Teaching Hospital 2Infectious Disease Unit‚ Aminu Kano Teaching Hospital INTRODUCTION Sepsis is a serious medical condition characterized by a whole body inflammatory state (called a systemic inflammatory response or SIRS) and the presence of a known or suspected infection. The body may develop this inflammatory response
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cause neonatal sepsis and can be dangerous to a newborn baby. Neonatal sepsis is a clinical condition of bacteremia described by systemic signs and symptoms of infection in the first month of newborn life. Bactria can transfer in several ways‚ such as during birth‚ pregnancy‚ and from the new surrounding of environment after birth. Newborn infants are at much higher risk of getting sepsis than children or adult because their immune system is not developed and they cannot fight any infection or other diseases
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