Psychology in Respiratory Therapy When I decided I wanted to be a respiratory therapist‚ I never imagined that I would be dealing with any psychological aspects. As I have learned more about the respiratory system and the patients that I will treat‚ I can see that I will deal with some psychological factors quite often. In respiratory therapy there are psychological factors that can affect a person’s ability to breath and their quality of breathing. A range of emotional factors including
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lower PH shows that your blood is more acidic and higher PH shows that your blood is more alkaline (base). The PH of your blood should be around 7.35-7.45.if this PH rise or fall‚ it can lead to number of health issues or even death. Respiratory acidosis In the respiratory system‚ lungs remove the excess waste products which is the carbon dioxide when you
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Methicillin – Resistant Staphylococcus Areaus‚ also know as MRSA is a frequent infection found in medical facilities? MRSA is a strain of staph that is resistant to common antibiotics and can be very difficult to treat. Staph is short for Staphylococcus; staph is a harmless bacteria which resides on the surface of all your skin. Usually this is not a problem until a person punctures their skin. They then face the risk of staph infection (Kidshealth.org 2012). MRSA frequents medical facilities the most‚
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The most common infection in the health care setting is Clostridium difficile (C. difficile) and it is associated with sky rocketing hospital costs‚ deaths and complications. (Zacharioudakis‚ et al.‚ 2015) According to studies released in the United States by the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) in 2015‚ the current economic burden of infectious C. difficile has become the most common microbial cause of recurrent antibiotic-associated diarrhea and other gastrointestinal illnesses
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Causes and spread of infection Identify the differences between bacteria‚ viruses‚ fungi‚ parasites? -Viruses aren’t living. They’re only made of complex proteins and nucleic acids. Bacteria‚ Fungi and Parasites are living organisms. - Bacteria are unicellular microorganisms. Fungi and Parasites are multicellular. - Fungi have cell walls made of chitin and they aren’t animals. Parasites and bacteria are animals. Bacteria come in 3 main shapes; spherical which are known as cocci‚ rod shaped
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Name UNIT 22 CAUSES AND SPREAD OF INFECTION 1.1 Identify the differences between bacteria‚ viruses‚ fungi and parasites What is a Bacteria? A bacteria is a living things that are neither plants nor animals‚ but belong to a group all by themselves. They are very small--individually not more than one single cell--however there are normally millions of them together‚ for they can multiply really fast. Bacteria are prokaryotes (single cells that do not
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Understanding the Causes of Infection 1.1 Identify the differences between bacteria‚ viruses‚ fungi and parasites. Bacteria are a living cell organism that can survive inside our body and other non living objects as well. There are both good and bad bacteria’s and the good bacteria is known to helps fight against the bad bacteria that makes its way into our bodies. According to www.righthealth.com‚ less than 1% of bacteria are actually harmful to us. In fact‚ we couldn’t survive without
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REPSIRATORY DEPTH Depth- amplitude of each respiratory movement The depth of ventilation refers to the amount of air that is inhaled and exhaled. The amount of air inhaled and exhaled in one cycle is called the tidal volume. The more the chest cavity expands‚ the greater the depth of the ventilation. Full expansion of the chest wall with full relaxation on exhalation is a good indicator of adequate depth of breathing and adequate tidal volume. Many books will try and apply numbers in milliliters
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Respiratory System Webquest Name__________________ Use the website below to access the answer for the following questions. http://teachhealthk-12.uthscsa.edu/studentresources/AnatomyofBreathing3.swf 1. After watching the intro (replay if needed) select continuous breathing. a. What happens to the rib cage during inhalation? b. What happens to the diaphragm during inhalation? c. What happens to the rib cage during exhalation? d. What happens to the diaphragm during exhalation? 2
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General care was the right place for me to start for clinicals. It taught me the basic techniques a respiratory therapist needs. When I first began clinicals‚ it was difficult for me to learn new techniques and procedures for respiratory therapies. I struggled to take them from a procedure learned in a book or on the Mayo Intranet and figure how to apply it when I was with a patient. We did have labs to help us get hands on experience with the therapies but I still didn’t feel confident when entering
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