spokesperson for their unit to help increase compliance with the high reliability culture. We use bundles‚ such as ventilator bundles in our ICU to ensure that we do everything evidence based to prevent ventilator associated pneumonia. These steps have resulted in no ventilator acquired pneumonia for the last year. We also try to implement hourly rounding. This unfortunately has become an example of pencil whipping. Nurses have a sheet at the patients door where they are supposed to initial each hour that they
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Legionnaires’ Disease is pneumonia that’s caused by bacteria (Center For Disease Control and Prevention‚ 2015). The name of the bacteria that causes Legionnaire’s is Legionella pneumophila. Pneumonia is an infection of the lungs; this specific type of pneumonia is serious and can threaten one’s life. The body system that is affected is the respiratory system. Another body system that can be affected is the digestive system. This disease can lead to complications such as respiratory failure‚ septic
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Spirometer Breathing can become difficult for a patient after surgery‚ when they have pneumonia‚ a lung disease like (COPD)‚ or if they become on extensive bed rest. The patient may find that they can only take small‚ shallow breaths. Breathing this way makes it harder to get air into the patient lungs and can cause fluid and mucus to build up in the lungs. This could cause a serious lung infection like pneumonia. An incentive spirometer is a breathing exercise used to help a patient take deep breaths
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Isolation Precautions Special precautionary measures‚ practices‚ and procedures used in the care of patients with contagious or communicable diseases. The Centers for Disease Control and Prevention provides explicit and comprehensive guidelines for control of the spread of infectious disease in the care of hospitalized patients. The type of infectious disease a patient has dictates the kind of isolation precautions necessary to prevent spread of the disease to others. Standard Precautions are
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Answers: • How many times a year were + for pneumonia? Infections per year? • What was the onset of when this first started taking place? Timeline? • What Antibiotic therapies were used? • Who is her primary MD? Assuming this is the ER? • Smoking hx? • Are you having night sweats or chills? • Inappropriate levels of fatigue? Outside when she is having bouts of pneumonia? • Any recent
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Primary Ciliary Dyskinesia (PCD) PCD also known as immotile cilia syndrome is a rare autosomal recessive genetic disorder caused by a defect in the tiny hairs (cilia) lining the respiratory tracts‚ Specifically‚ it is a defect in a gene coding for left-right dynein (LRD) a key structural protein in cilia (Chodhari et al.‚ 2004) and is usually inherited as an autosomal recessive trait‚ although other modes of inheritance have been reported (Krawczynski and Witt‚ 2004). Clinical picture of PCD PCD
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Acute Respiratory Distress Syndrome In the field of respiratory therapy‚ we are the fighters that must preserve the breath of life. The battlefield we wage war on is riddled with many diseases and hardships for us to help our patients overcome by any means necessary. One of the main heavy hitters in this battle is acute respiratory distress syndrome (ARDS). This condition is very deadly and is a tough opponent that must be defeated. ARDS is a dangerous condition affecting a vast group of patients
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Part II Intermediate Coding Exercises ICD-9-CM Coding Instructions: • Sequence the ICD-9-CM principal diagnosis in the first diagnosis position. • Assign all reportable secondary diagnosis codes including V codes and E codes (both cause of injury and place of occurrence). • Sequence the ICD-9-CM principal procedure code in the first procedure position. • Assign all reportable secondary ICD-9-CM procedure codes. ICD-10-CM and ICD-10-PCS Coding Instructions: • Sequence the ICD-10-CM principal
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to atmospheric pressure‚ this will cause atelecatasis. How is Alveolar gas exchange affected by emphysema and pneumonia? Emphysema is a respitory disorder that affects the avioli. The avioli are sacs of epithelial tissue located in the ends of the bronchi tubes. These sacs are the site of gas exchange . When emphysema occurs‚ these sacs rupture and leave them unusable. Pneumonia‚ on the other hand‚ affects the avioli in a different way. When the sacs become filled with fluid from the bacterial
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endemic for a variety of reasons. Some reasons being‚ population swelling and the increase in tourism‚ that causes the infection to grow and manifest itself. There are various forms‚ where the infection can occur‚ such as: chronic progressive pneumonia‚ acute pneumonia‚ meningitis and extra pulmonary non-meningeal disease. The infection does not affect everyone the same and can cause only flu-like symptoms for patients‚ while others can experience the more severe side. This specific fungal infection has
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