Essays on Sore Throat

Patient name: Be than, Beta

Data source: patient Chief Compliant & ID: Mr. Be than is a 24 y/o had visited a doctor six months ago complaining persistent headache History of Current Illness This 24 years gentleman had visited a doctor six months ago. The man states he started having headache and shivering two days before he visited the doctor. He noticed that a headache was becoming more persistent although he only experienced the shivering in the evening hours. A headache began from the cerebral part and radiated with time to the entire head. The patient states that he started experiencing the headache one evening ...

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The significant outcome related to the over prescription of antibiotics by the physicians attributes to the pattern of antimicrobial resistance that develops inside the patients who consume extra doses or combination of antibiotics for treating their sore throat manifestation . The antibiotics resistance across the patient population is effectively determined by the measurement of their minimum inhibitory concentrations (MIC) through laboratory analysis . The configuration of dilution solution of antibiotics stock and interpretation of the MIC findings through the analysis of bacterial growth over agar plates provides an insight regarding the MIC of antibiotics and the corresponding resistance of the developed ...

Sore throat is one of the most common medical problems being encountered by people. In terms of prevalence, it is comparable to flu (influenza) and cough. Aside from the discomfort and in more severe cases, pain, that it causes, sore throat may also disrupt a person’s life. A person who has a sore throat, for example, would most likely have a concomitant fever as this usually accompanies medical problems that are associated with infection. Having fever can prevent a person from going to work and or fulfilling his daily responsibilities. So, despite the fact that sore throat is ...

Cost rationalisation is an important concept which has been trending in the medical world nowadays. The growing cost of providing medical care has forced the medical fraternity to devise ways for rational cost cutting without compromising on the quality of care. In this paper, we will try to analyze the cost effectiveness of prescribing antibiotics to the patients of sore throat. We will compare the cost of some of the commonly used medicines for sore throat against antibiotic used for the same purpose. In an attempt to determine the cost effectiveness of using antibiotics for the treatment of sore ...

In children, the presentation of a rash and a fever as in the case with this 24-month old patient is not normally a cause for concern and the early arrival at the clinic helps limit the spread of these symptoms to serious cases (Jarvis, 2015). In such instances, there are three major classifications; on in which the patient presents with a serious illness and may require immediate treatment, second where the viral syndromes are easily recognizable and manageable and third where there occurs an undifferentiated rash. In this patient, the rash and fever can be classified within the second ...

Upper respiratory disease is a term that encompasses acute infections ranging from the benign common cold to life-threatening conditions (e.g., epiglottitis). Cases of upper respiratory disease are easy to recognize because the patients will complain about the following symptoms (Centers for Disease Control and Prevention [CDC], 2016):

Runny nose (always)

Sore throat (always) Coughing (common, usually in cases of viral etiology) Sneezing (common, usually in cases of viral etiology) Other symptoms depend on the patient’s age, medical history, and the pathogen causing the infection, so it is important to conduct a thorough assessment which consists of the following steps:

Interview the patient.

Perform ...