Pneumonia Case Studies Samples For Students

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a) Among the major signs of pneumonia are persistent coughs with sputum, fever and chest pains during inhalation, shortness of breath and headaches (Schiffman, 2012). In the case provided, Evelyn had the exact signs and symptoms as the ones that cause pneumonia and is therefore, suffering from pneumonia.
b) The history of the patient in the case study and the tests done indicate that the pneumonia Evelyn is suffering from is viral pneumonia. The history of the disease, over a month of experiencing symptoms of fever, headache and persistent cough indicate the patient is ...

Preventable hospital re-hospitalizations are key quality and patient safety concerns. Statistics suggest that one in every five Medicare enrollees is re-hospitalized within 30 days of discharge from an acute care facility, and an estimated 75% of these readmissions are avoidable. Readmissions are expensive costing the United Sates (US) healthcare system an estimated $17 billion annually. The 2010 affordable care act established the Medicare Hospital Readmissions Reduction Program. This program offers a financial incentive to hospitals to reduce excess readmissions (Robert Wood Johnson Foundation, 2013). In efforts to avoid Medicare penalties, hospitals around the country have implemented programs aimed at ...

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Patient Initials: Patient H Age: 65 yrs old Gender: Male
SUBJECTIVE DATA:
Chief Complaint (CC): Patient H reports cough associated with with shortness of breath, and fever, as verbalized, “I do (have cough). And it's getting worsehad chills and sweats and it took forever to get to sleep”
History of Present Illness (HPI): Patient H is a 65 yrs old Caucasian, male who presents self in the outpatient ward with productive cough that was, according to the patient “getting worse”, accompanied by shortness of breath and fever with chills and sweats. He has difficulty bringing ...

Asthma is a chronic airway disease that is difficult to manage because of numerous risk factors and complicated by poor self-management. This is a case study of acute severe asthma triggered by viral respiratory infection and exercise in an Aboriginal female with chronic asthma. The discussion will include the diagnostic tests, patient assessment, care and interventions, medications, and nursing care performed or should have been performed. The expected outcomes will also be described.

An arterial blood gas (ABG) analysis was performed showing respiratory acidosis and mild hypoxaemia. Above normal PaCO2 and below normal pH meant the lungs could not eliminate carbon ...

Application of the Natural Law Theory in the Management of a Case in Relation with the Ethical and Religious Directives for Catholic Health Care

Introduction

Natural laws are principles with reasons used to examine the human nature and are set by the natural world. These natural laws in most cases use justification to examine the nature of humans and try to explain morality and ethics basing on the religious perspective. Additionally, natural laws often are joined with common laws and norms of the societies but in most cases these natural laws contend that specific rights and values are acquired genetically from parents. In addition, these natural laws are related to ethical and religious directives for catholic health care which actually stipulate the bioethics ...

Post-stroke dysphagia, a potentially fatal complication, affects an estimated 23-50% of all stroke survivors. It is associated with a seven fold increase in the risk for aspiration pneumonia. Aspiration pneumonia increases the catabolic demands of the body and in the settings of impaired swallowing leads to a vicious cycle of malnutrition, dehydration, and further infections (Shaker & Geenen, 2011). Dysphagia affects a significant number of patients with hemispheric stroke which is the main subtype of ischemic stroke in the general population (Kumar et al., 2011). The functions of swallowing are subserved by a vast brain network. The inferior peri-rolandic sensorimotor ...

Atrial Fibrillation

Atrial fibrillation is the most encountered cardiac rhythm disorder in clinical practice. It affects <1% of persons aged <60 years. This prevalence increases to 10% in persons aged >80 years (Amerena, Walters, Mirzaee and Kalman, 2013). Atrial fibrillation is a key differential diagnosis in patients presenting with chest pain, palpitations, shortness of breath, light-headedness, and syncope (Cruickshank, 2008). This paper will examine the differential diagnosis, pathophysiology, and paramedic implications of atrial fibrillation in relation to the case of a 43-year old male who presents with features and ECG findings of atrial fibrillation. It will first examine ...

Influenza Case Study: Presentation Outline

The other diagnosis considered was pneumonia, but the patient lacked all of the symptoms corresponding to pneumonia (i.e. cough); similarly, the patient’s symptoms corresponded with the flu (i.e. fever, muscle soreness, lethargy, runny nose, and shortness of breath).

So, for these reasons, the patient was not started on oral antibiotics at the hospital.

Instead, the patient began a course of the aforementioned Tamiflu, despite laboratory supported data confirming that the patient had the flu. The reason for this decision is that laboratory-run viral cultures take 3-10 days to return to the clinician treating the patient, and Tamiflu useful only if administered within 48 hours of flu onset; this means that a course of ...

Subjective Data:

Patient’s demographic and social information
Jnr. is a 10 year old African American Male patient brought into clinic by his mother who reports that Jnr. was recently discharged from hospital for acute asthma exacerbation. The boy presented with cough and difficulty in breathing combined with a running nose and elevated temperature which has now been resolved with over the counter Tylenol. The mother also says that her son has a history of multiple admissions to the hospital for acute asthma exacerbation. His mother reports child repeatedly loses inhalers. She also states that she does not check for inhaler ...

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Care Plan Template

Patient Initials: ABC Age: 65 Sex: Female
Subjective Data:
HPI:
Dry cough for last two weeks
Low-grade fever from last two days, 101 degrees orally
Decreased appetite without nausea
Intense coughing makes uncomfortable during night
Needs to sit up to ease the breath
She had been prescribed inhalers in the past but not a regular user
Had taken antibiotics in the past on acute conditions
Mild activities trigger shortness of breath, due to a dry cough

Condition remained same for the past two weeks with a slight sore throat

Patient doubts that it is a heart problem or she has ...

Introduction

The purpose of this paper is to develop a comprehensive nursing care plan in relation to a case study. The nursing care plan is a structural framework that is developed by a health care provider for the purpose of ensuring harmonized communication that will eventually result to secure and valuable care for the patient (Doenges, M. E., Moorhouse, M. F., & Murr, A. C., 2005). Maternal health care is a sensitive area of health care provision as it involves handling two lives at once; that of the mother and the unborn child. In this case, developing a maternal care plan requires adequate familiarization with the psychological, ...

Introduction

Bacterial meningitis is an infection that affects the meninges, the cerebrospinal fluid and the spinal cord that causes death and disability in a number of people worldwide. This is a highly contagious airborne disease that is spread through the transmission of three organisms present in the respiratory secretions: Neisseria meningitides, Haemophilus influenzae, and Streptococcus pneumoniae. The onset or origins of the disease varies among different age groups and geographic locations. According to estimates, 200,000 people die annually of meningitis. Case fatality rates vary with age at time of illness and also depend on the particular bacterial strain causing the infection ( ...

Question: - 1 Identify the likely disease process responsible for the patient’s manifestations. Explain the evidence to support your interpretation.
The likely disease process for this responsible for this patient’s manifestation is acquired immune deficiency syndrome (AIDS). Supporting evidence from case study includes a HIV ELISA positive accompanied by a 5-day fever history, dyspnea, productive cough, and right sided pleuritic chest pain. Even though she does not admit to experiencing any chills, vomiting, headache or rashes there she experienced two pneumonia episodes within the past three years According to her reported history these pneumonias were not associated with ...

The patient was a 24-year-old black male who was brought to the emergency room via an ambulance on June 21 at 03:50 pm. The report indicated that it was a pedestrian versus vehicle accident. The state of the patient reported included acute lung injury, pulmonary contusion, deep road rash extending over right side of axillary region to the abdomen, deep avulsion to the right hip area and exposed muscles. Trauma alert team and the respiratory therapist were called to the bedside. The patient developed respiratory failure and immediately was intubated by the respiratory therapist with an endotracheal tube size 7.5 mm. ...