Syphilis Caitlin Evans Roane State Community College Abstract What comes to your mind when you hear the word Syphilis? It’s a sexually transmitted disease; it is only transmitted while having sex; once you have it you will always have it‚ etc. While most of these answers are true‚ there are multiple ways of transmission. Syphilis occurs in four different stages: the primary‚ secondary‚ latent‚ and tertiary stage. Each stage effects the oral cavity and body in different ways. Congenital
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Pfizer Incorporated is a major pharmaceutical company and is one of the leading in the world for pharmaceutical sales It currently has the largest Research and Development department out of any Bio-medical company in the world. Some of the products that Pfizer produces that readers might be familiar with are: Lipitor (atorvastatin); oral antifungal medication Diflucan (fluconazole)‚ another popular antibiotic Zithromax commonly reffered to as a the “Z” pack (azithromycin)‚ the well-known erectile
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1-hypersensitivity. The patient has indications of this reaction as written in the provided patient history. Having an allergy to bee stings‚ and being a diagnosed asthma patient makes the Health care provider cautious in prescribing E.O. a course of penicillin‚ which is a broad spectrum antibiotic and a possible cause of human anaphylaxis as indicated in the textbox 10-1 (Copstead & Banasik‚ 2013). The bee sting allergy indicates that the patient has hypersensitivity and having asthma indicates the physiological
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Administered/injected antigens such as anti-tetanic serum‚ penicillin‚ and other drugs ❑ Antibody involved: IgE Examples: ❑ Anaphylaxis – IgE binds to surface of mast cells and basophils ■ Release of various mediators – produce vascular changes ■ Examples: ■ Causes bronchoconstriction‚ inability to breath ■ Maybe due to: injection of antitetanic horse serum‚ penicillin or bee sting. ■ Allergic asthma (Extrinsic
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as he or she entered the order in CPOE so they could have an opportunity to select another drug that would be appropriate for the patient. Scenario 1 A patient has a known allergy to penicillin. Describe how the electronic system might be set up to prevent this particular patient from getting penicillin. Consider the CPOE process you have read about in class. Clinical decision support tools and explanation I would choose the CPOE process because of the built in clinical decision support
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consist of talcum‚ cornstarch and salicylic acid j. aniline k. lipstick II. ENCIRCLE THE WORD THAT DOES NOT BELONG TO THE GROUP (2 pts each) 1. rubber‚ teflon‚ PVC‚ sugar 2. sodium nitrite‚ sodium sulfate‚ sodium benzoate‚ penicillin 3. erythromycin‚ depilatories‚ streptomycin‚ chloramphenicol‚ 4. agar‚ ascorbic acid‚ carageenan‚ phenylbutazone 5. dyes‚ lipsticks‚ lotions‚ astringents III. IDENTIFICATION. Identify that which is spoken of. Write the answer on
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Untreated Syphilis in the Negro Male‚" Its objective‚ and potential consequences they would receive during the study. The discovery of penicillin had become the standard treatment for syphilis in 1947. Decisions were made available to the researchers specifying to treat all syphilitic subjects concluding the study‚ or to terminate the control group with penicillin cure. Instead doctors resume the practice and medication was withheld for both the experimental group and control group while scientists
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Nonmaleficence Nonmaleficence describes the avoidance of actions that cause harm to study participants (Markle‚ Fisher‚ & Smego‚ 2013). It is critical to prevent harm to those who are subjects of studies with human subjects. The study withheld penicillin treatment for participants when it became available infringing members right to non-maleficence. Beneficence Beneficence derives from a sense of obligation including philanthropy towards others who are vulnerable in the society due to low socioeconomic
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HPI: 47 y/o male presents in ER for w/u of L chest wall mass. While watching TV Pt. experienced pain below his L nipple. 3/10 constant dull ache. He did not think much of it until two days later when on the 24th he noticed the development of swelling at the site of pain. The patient is confident that the mass was not present before and grew between Thursday to Monday. It had become tender to touch with a slight red and blue discoloration inferiorly. Nothing made the pain go away and pain increased
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efflux pump. INTRODUCTION It is said that the invention of the antibiotic is the most pioneer achievement of humans against the bacterial infections in the human health science. The first antibiotic appeared in 1928 by Alexander Flaming that is penicillin which kill all surrounding bacteria. And thus‚ the concept of antibiotic came and it changed the method of infection treatment. The word ‘Antibiotic’ was first termed by the Selman Waksman. But the problem came that is Antibiotic resistance. As
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