Communicable Disease Michael E Aponte Professor Steiner University of Phoenix HCS 457 Chickenpox is a highly communicable virus named the varicella-zoster virus and closely resembles the herpes virus. The virus can be released into the air by coughing or sneezing‚ spreading the virus from person to person. The virus also can be spread by touching the fluids from a chickenpox blister. Chickenpox is so contagious that an individual who has never had exposure to chickenpox has an 80%
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Communicable Disease Paper Tuberculosis Communicable diseases rely on fluid exchange‚ contaminated substance‚ or close contact to travel from an infected carrier to a healthy individual. Many people have never heard of a disease called tuberculosis (TB) or not fully aware how serious this disease really is. I will briefly summarize the research that was conducted on tuberculosis by describing the disease in details and discussing efforts to control it‚ indentify environmental factors related
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Dealing with childhood pneumonia in developing countries: how can we make a difference? The past few years have seen renewed attention focused on the persistent burden of childhood mortality globally. Of the 10.6 million deaths of children under 5 every year‚ the vast majority occur in a mere 42 countries of the developing world. It is also apparent that despite advances in understanding the pathophysiology and significance of the major causes of child death‚ most of the known killers such as diarrhoeal
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During the last few decades‚ the number of diseases worldwide has increased dramatically. Unfortunately‚ these illnesses are also becoming more and more complicated. Understanding how the human body works while it is fighting diseases is a key to finding treatments for them. However‚ some diseases involve processes which can only be studied inside a living organism. Most people believe that for medical progress that may save millions of lives‚ limited animal testing is justified‚ yet some
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Crohn and his team founded a disease that we have now known as Crohn’s disease. (The Secret History of Crohn’s Disease) Dr. Crohn didn’t know much about the cause and development of Crohn’s back then‚ and it still seems to be that way today. There has been a great amount of improvement on discovering the source of Crohn’s‚ but there is still much to be done. More research and funding need to be put towards Crohn’s disease in order to find an exact cause of the disease. If we make this possible‚ then
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prescribed to take medicines (the parent can not remember the medicine given). He did not complete the medication due to financial insufficiency and relieved from the illness. IV. FAMILY HISTORY No familial diseases. V. DESCRIPTION OF PRESENT ILLNESS An acute infectious disease of the lungs usually caused by the pneumoccocus resulting in the consolidation of one or more lobes of either or both lungs. Etiology • Majority of cases due to Diploccocus pneumoniae • Occasionally
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Oral Care in Prevention of Ventilator-Associated Pneumonia September 19‚ 2013 Literature Review The review of literature was conducted using the following databases CINAHL‚ PubMed and Medline using the keywords oral care‚ mouth care‚ ventilator-associated pneumonia‚ ventilator‚ critical care and hygiene. Of the articles retrieved there were randomized‚ nonrandomized and quasi experimental. Location of the studies included single centers to university hospital settings in multiple critical
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Case Study: Pneumonia and Pressure Ulcer Prevention in an Elderly MICU Patient June 6‚ 2012 Case Study: Pneumonia and Sepsis in an Elderly MICU Patient L.M. is a 75-year-old female who suffers from severe dementia and lives in a SNF. She was diagnosed with lung cancer in 2005 and as a result had a right upper and middle lobectomy. She also has a history of severe emphysema. L.M. has had several pneumonic infections and has an allergy to Pneumovax. She has a recurrent
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Cultural and Disease Paper While there are many endocrine diseases‚ the most common one in the United States is diabetes (Erika Gebel‚ 2010). The prevalence of endocrine diabetes is extremely high among the Arab people. There are many factor that make the Arab population vulnerable to diabetes and other endocrine disorders. Social and cultural influences also influence the development and treatment of many disease within the Arab and Islamic world. Community-based culturally sensitive intervention
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Ventilator associated pneumonia (VAP) is a nosocomial infection occurring in hospitalized patients who are mechanically ventilated. These infections are common in ICU settings‚ difficult to diagnose early‚ and unfortunately have a high rate of mortality and morbidity. VAP accounts for almost half of infections in ICU settings‚ up to 28% of mechanically ventilated patients will develop VAP and of these patients the mortality rate is between 20% and 70% (Craven & Steger‚ 1998). A patient that develops
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