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Why do infections always pose a serious threat to the body after a patient experiences severe burns or deep abrasions to the integument?
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What most commonly causes surgical site infections?
The most common source of pathogens that cause surgical site infections is the patient.
Differentiate among nosocomialcommunity-acquiredand iatrogenic infection?
Nosocomial infections are infections that are acquired in a health-care setting or as a result of receiving medical care. They may be the result of medical care (see iatrogenic infections, below), or they may simply be due to contact with pathogens from another patient in a hospital or clinic. Iatrogenic infections are infections that are the result of receiving medical care. Iatrogenic infections are nosocomial infections. Examples include infections as a result of surgery or catheterization, or secondary infections that are a result of antibiotic treatment killing of normal microbiota. Community-acquired infections are those that are picked up outside of a health-care setting. For example, CA-MRSA is the name given to MRSA infections that are transmitted in people's everyday lives.
What is the most important nursing intervention when caring for a patient with Cushing's syndrome?
Because of enhanced anti-inflammatory effects, infections may become overwhelmingly severe. Therefore the nurse should protect the patient from infection. Diff: 3 Page Ref: 617-618
What happens if your skin is damaged by a cut?
You would get sick rather quickly and very likely die. This is what happens in animals that get burned. The reasons why follow. The integumentary system is commonly referred to as your skin. In mammals this is the outermost layer of tissues, including hair and nails, that protects the body from the external environment. In most animals the internal and external environments are very different. For example, mammals have a moist and warm internal environment and must maintain this to survive. Without the integument, moisture is rapidly lost and body temperature will equilibrate (fall) to match the local environment and you have not protection from infection. The integument is a critical organ to maintain homeostasis. In lower organisms such as worms and insects, it can function as a gas exchanger (a primitive 'lung'); it also secretes waste products such as CO2, excessive water, garlic and urea. In all organisms it functions as a barrier, preventing pathogens getting in and causing disease and infection. It can act as a sensor (or receptor) of pressure and pain, The integument also produces products (antimicrobials) that kill pathogens and, ironically, can simultaneously feed the commensal bacteria and fungi that live symbiotically on the integument and help to prevent pathogens establishing a colony. In many animals the integument senses external temperature and pressure (through receptors contained within its various tissue structures. It further protects the bodies internal organs from damage fromphysical impacts. Another function of the integument is to provide a structure for many tissues that manufacture products that benefit the animal. Most tissues cannot function without a well defined structure. The integument provides such a structure by resisting the collapse of these tissues. In short, while the skeleton is used to hang organs from, the integument is used to hold them toghether and stop them from flapping around.
How does Staph go from a local infection to a disseminated one?
Staph infections are most of the times localised. However if the patient is immunocompromised e'g HIV or leukemias and lymphomas or any other immunocompromised state, it can become a disseminated one..
What can be indicated by abnormal result on a CBC?
Abnormal results can indicate the presence of a variety of conditions--including anemias, leukemias, and infections--sometimes before the patient experiences symptoms of the disease.
What is the greatest danger to a patient who has had damage to the skin?
Infections.
What is the most cause of sepsis in hospitalized patient?
Bacterial infections
How do you catch infections?
Nosocomial Infections are those that are hospital acquired, one which a patient catches during a hospital visit
A disorder of the nervous system in which the patient experiences seizures is?
epilepsy
What is a method by which a therapist and a patient probe for repressed experiences?
Psychotherapy.
What most commonly causes surgical site infections?
The most common source of pathogens that cause surgical site infections is the patient.
Who was the first person to get the plague?
With contagious infections, it is impossible to trace to "Patient Zero", the very first patient to get the infection.
Can a patient's resident biota be the infectious agent for nosocomial infections?
Resident biota can be the infections agents for nosocomial infections. Examples are staph infections of central lines, and fecal contaminants causing catheter-associated UTIs.
Why is the patient experiences fever during ascending cholangitis?
du to an infection
What is the method by which a therapist and a patient probe for repressed experiences called?
Psychotherapy.
What did freud use to probe the past experiences and memories of a patient?
Physchoanalysis
