Showing posts with label acute respiratory infections. Show all posts
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Thursday, April 7, 2011

Respiratory, Pulmonary, Anatomy, Conditions, Illnesses, Direct Patient Care

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Paul Arnote's Respiratory Care Links:"Welcome to my page of Respiratory Care links. I am a Registered Respiratory Therapist, and an instructor at the Kansas City campus of Concorde Career College. I also work PRN (quite regularly) at an area Kansas City hospital. Below you will find a plethora of links related to the field of Respiratory Care. I am placing these here not only for the benefit of my students, but all RTs, both in the Kansas City area and worldwide."
http://home.comcast.net/~parnote/

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Tobacco Free Nurses:"Together with QuitNet we have created a smoking cessation site tailored for nurses and nursing students who want to quit smoking. From this site you can freely access QuitNet's special Nurses section, where you'll find tools and resources you can use to help quit smoking, scientific guides about quitting, expert counselors available to take your questions, and most importantly, other nurses like you who want to quit! Click here to go to our QuitNet entry page and take advantage of your membership sponsored by the Tobacco Free Nurses project."
1-877-2034144
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Angela Halley RN, BSN, CLNC, River View Legal Nurse Consulting:"We specialize in providing legal nurse consulting services to attorneys (plaintiff and defense), insurance companies, workman's compensation firms, and individual institutions for risk management services. Our firm has over 20 years of nursing experience in psychiatric, labor and delivery, pulmonary, neurology, medical/surgical nursing, and many areas of nursing management. River View Legal Nurse Consultants provides a time efficient and cost effective answer to your legal nurse consulting needs."
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Lou Torres BSN, RN, RRT, Legal Nurse Consultant, Registered Respiratory Therapist (RRT), Massachusetts,
Emergency Department Nurses, Intensive Care Unit (ICU)

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Sleep Apnea Monitor Turned off or Ignored By Nursing Staff, Patient's Coding Goes Unnoticed.
Monitors and Monitored patients present special challenges to practicing nurses. Like a call bell, when alarms on a monitor are activated, they can signal benign or life-threatening. . .

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How Your Lungs Work by Craig C. Freudenrich, Ph.D., Howstuffworks.com:"You breathe in and out anywhere from 15 to 25 times per minute without even thinking about it. When you exercise, your breathing rate goes up -- again, without you thinking about it. You breathe so regularly that it is easy to take your lungs for granted. You can't even stop yourself from breathing if you try!"
http://www.howstuffworks.com/lung.htm

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Management of Airway Emergencies, AARC Clinical Practice Guideline:"Management of airway emergencies (MAE) for the purpose of this guideline encompasses all care necessary to deal with sudden and often life-threatening events affecting natural and artificial airways and involves the identification, assessment, and treatment of patients in danger of losing or not being able to maintain an adequate airway, including the newborn. This includes (1) identification of the causes of airway emergencies; (2) management of airway emergencies prior to tracheal intubation; (3) use of adjunctive equipment and special techniques for establishing, maintaining, and monitoring effective ventilation; (4) translaryngeal tracheal intubation, including nasal and oral tracheal intubation; (5) transtracheal catheter ventilation, (6) percutaneous dilational cricothyrotomy, and; (7) surgical cricothyrotomy."
http://www.rcjournal.com/cpgs/maecpg.html

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Monday, March 21, 2011

World TB Day, March 24, 2011, March 21, 2011 News Release - National Institutes of Health (NIH)

World TB Day
March 24, 2011

Statement of Christine F. Sizemore, Ph.D., and Anthony S. Fauci, M.D.
National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Diseases
National Institutes of Health

The theme of World TB Day 2011 — "On the move against TB: Transforming the fight towards elimination"— reflects renewed momentum to approach the global problem of tuberculosis with greater intensity and seriousness of purpose. This growing interest is broad-based, emerging from leaders in public health to laboratory scientists, from physicians to activists.

Today, about one-third of the world's population is infected with Mycobacterium tuberculosis (Mtb), the bacterium that causes TB. Most people have no symptoms because the bacterium is inactive, or latent, but individuals with symptoms of active TB disease can infect others. According to World Health Organization (WHO) estimates, in 2009 more than 14 million people had active TB, leading to 1.7 million deaths, or 4,600 deaths each day. Among people infected with the bacteria, those who have certain other conditions, such as HIV/AIDS and diabetes, are more likely to develop active TB and to die from it. Because of this deadly synergy, TB has become the leading cause of death among people with HIV/AIDS.

Although TB control programs have led to a decline in cases worldwide, the emergence and spread of drug-resistant strains of Mtb challenge the way we currently approach TB diagnosis and treatment. Extensively drug-resistant TB, while relatively rare, has been confirmed in 58 countries, including the United States, and likely is present in many more. It has become necessary not just to identify the infection but also to determine the proper therapy for patients at the earliest stages of disease.

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Education Resources, Association for Professionals in Infection Control and Epidemiology, Inc APIC |

APIC works to provide information to both the general public and healthcare professionals. The brochures on this page are regularly reviewed and updated as needed to insure that the information provided is current. These materials are available for you to download, copy and distribute free of charge.  These pamphlets are intended to provide a general reference to each topic. No brochure can adequately diagnose a medical condition. If in doubt regarding your symptoms, please contact a healthcare professional.

 


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    Monday, January 3, 2011

    CDC - Seasonal Influenza (Flu) - Flu Activity & Surveillance

    Flu Activity & Surveillance

    Reports & Surveillance Methods in the United States

    Current United States Flu Activity Map Weekly U.S. Influenza Surveillance Report International Influenza Surveillance

    Situation Update: Summary of Weekly FluView

    Full FluView Report

    Overview of Influenza Surveillance in the United States

    Past Weekly Surveillance Reports and Historical Data

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    Wednesday, December 1, 2010

    CDC - Seasonal Influenza (Flu) - Flu Information for Parents

    Flu Information for Parents

    Flu is more dangerous than the common cold for children. Each year, flu places a large burden on the health and well-being of children and families. An influenza vaccination is the best method for preventing flu and its potentially severe complications in children. CDC recommends that all children 6 months and older get a flu vaccine.

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    Friday, November 19, 2010

    Bronchitis, Acute, Chronic, Respiratory, Pulmonary Conditions of the Lung, Legal Nursing Consultants, Medical/Legal Consulting

    Bronchitis, Emedicine.com:"Acute bronchitis refers simply to inflammation of the tracheobronchial tree. The cause is usually infectious, but allergens and irritants can produce a similar clinical picture. Bronchitis typically occurs in the setting of an upper respiratory illness; thus, it is observed more frequently in the winter months. Asthma can be mistakenly diagnosed as acute bronchitis if the patient has no prior history of asthma. In one study, one third of patients who had been determined to have recurrent bouts of acute bronchitis were eventually identified as having asthma."
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    Bronchitis Overview, emedicinehealth.com:"Bronchitis is an acute inflammation of the air passages within the lungs. It occurs when the trachea (windpipe) and the large and small bronchi (airways) within the lungs become inflamed because of infection or other causes. The thin mucous lining of these airways can become irritated and swollen. The cells that make up this lining may leak fluids in response to the inflammation."
    http://www.emedicinehealth.com/bronchitis/article_em.htm

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    Bronchitis, What Causes Bronchitis? The Nemours Foundation:"Acute bronchitis is usually caused by viruses, and it may occur together with or following a cold or other respiratory infection. Germs such as viruses can be spread from person to person by coughing. They can also be spread if you touch your mouth, nose, or eyes after coming into contact with respiratory fluids from an infected person. Smoking (even for a brief time) and being around tobacco smoke, chemical fumes, and other air pollutants for long periods of time puts a person at risk for developing chronic bronchitis."
    http://www.kidshealth.com/teen/infections/common/bronchitis.html

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    Bronchitis, Signs and symptoms, mayoclinic.com:"A cough that brings up yellowish-gray or green mucus (sputum) is one of the main signs of bronchitis. Mucus itself isn't abnormal — your airways normally produce up to several tablespoons of mucus secretions every day. But these secretions usually don't accumulate, because they're continuously cleared into your throat and swallowed with your saliva. When the main air passageways in your lungs (bronchial tubes) are inflamed, they often produce large amounts of discolored mucus that comes up when you cough. If this persists for more than three months, it is referred to as chronic bronchitis. Mucus that isn't white or clear usually means there's a secondary infection."
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    Wednesday, November 17, 2010

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    Thursday, November 11, 2010

    FDA Proposes Graphic Warnings For Cigarette Packs, Ads : Shots - Health News Blog : NPR

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    by Scott Hensley and Richard Knox

    Proposed warnings for cigarette packages
    FDA

    Coming soon: Bold health warnings for cigarette packages and advertisements.

    Now that the Food and Drug Administration has broad powers to regulate tobacco, it's starting to flex its muscles.

    Today, the agency unveiled a proposal that would add large, dramatic warnings to cigarette packages and advertisements in a move to discourage people from smoking.

    The Tobacco Control Act requires the FDA to come up with regulations for tougher labeling of cigarettes. Now you can see the agencies' ideas and comment on them through early January. Final regulations are due next June. Tobacco companies will have until September, 2012, to make the changes.

     

    Under the law, these warnings will have to appear on both the front and back of cigarette packs, taking up half the real estate on each side of the label.

    In big ads, they're supposed to occupy at least 20 percent of the space. For smaller ads, there will be alternative anti-smoking messages with bright logos.

    Will they work? Some research shows that bold graphic warnings do a better job than text alone in communicating risks and affecting behavior. Other countries, such as Canada, have blazed this trail already.

    As NPR's Richard Knox reports on All Things Considered, David Sweanor, a law professor at the University of Ottawa, says Canada's decade-old warnings do work — up to a point.

    "What we see with these sorts of warnings is that it does increase motivation," Sweanor says. "People are more aware of the risks. They are wanting to quit. But that has to be combined with services that make it more likely."

    Sweanor says smoking hasn't gone down as much as Canada as they'd hoped because the government hasn't provided enough access to smoking cessation programs.

    The U.S. government's new campaign, powered by a new 2009 tobacco control law, does include more coverage of quit-smoking programs through Medicare, Medicaid and private insurance. But some wonder if the funding will materialize.

    Others say the scare tactics can sometimes backfire. One study that tested warnings on a bunch of smokers, who happened to be psychology students, found that when smoking was a big part of someone's self-esteem, they weren't deterred by warnings that cigarettes could kill them. In fact, paradoxically, the death warnings might make them want to smoke more.

    For those people, the researchers say, it might be more effective to dent that self-esteem with messages that say things like "Smoking makes you unattractive."

    Almost two decades ago, comedian (and smoker) Denis Leary poked fun at smokers' ability to ignore warnings in a scathing, very unscientific and yet on-the-mark bit:

    It doesn't matter how big the warnings are. You could have cigarettes that were called the warnings. You could have cigarettes that come in a black pack, with a skull and crossbone on the front, called "Tumors," and smokers would line up around the block saying, "I can't wait to get my hands on these [bleeping] things."

    But the FDA is betting big that scare tactics will work on some of the 47 million Americans who still smoke – and deter more teenagers from starting. Smoking prevalence has stalled at 20 percent of adults – and, ominously, about the same proportion of high school seniors.

    Tobacco companies didn't have much to say about the new warning labels – although a spokesman for R.J. Reynolds notes that the company has already filed a suit challenging the constitionality of the warning label requirements, on First Amendment grounds.

     

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    @whoam(Inow): Of course smoke from cars bother me, too. But not only is that NOT the topic here, the analogy actually makes my point. We have limits on what can come out of the back of a car. That has allowed us to come a long way in cleaning up the air in many parts of the world. At least we did "regulate" that and it worked, albeit to varying degrees. Here, doing nothing is the worst alternative.

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    People will carry the cig pack in a holder of some type where the pictures will not be visible. This type of packaging will stop people from smoking.

    Thursday, November 11, 2010 1:35:35 PM

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    Don Smith (veggiebreeze) wrote:

    Once the smoker is hooked there is little need to warn of the health risks. Anyone who awakens and hacks for 15 minutes, or who gets short of breath walking down the driveway to the mailbox, knows that cigarettes are slowly killing him. But it is up and coming smokers who might be disuaded by graphic warnings. I was once leaving a party and a young woman lit up. Her friend was dismayed and said, "Don't you know those things give you cancer?" The woman replied, "Yeah, but that stuff comes on slowly."
    Parents (smokers or not) do whatever it takes to keep your kids from becoming fodder for tobacco profits.

    Thursday, November 11, 2010 1:34:25 PM

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    m e (jmar19)

    m e (jmar19) wrote:

    @Amphitere of course there are some who don't know smoking is bad for their health, but the vast majority in the US do know and assume they will quit before it gets the better of them. For that matter, most people many not be aware that it isn't just lung cancer that afflicts smokers but also esophageal cancer, pancreatic cancer and not to mention 100s of other diseases more prevalent amongst smokers, or the fiscal impact it imparts on our healthcare system, but sadly even that knowledge and understanding won't speak as loudly as tobacco addiction. Quitting is hard, most people DON'T appreciate that. These labels aren't going to make a big impact, no more than the current written warnings or advertisement warnings or campaigns that flood the TVs and schools about the health impact of smoking. Public policy that gets at the heart of smoking convenience DOES make a difference, increasing the tax on tobacco products, making it illegal to smoke indoors, on patios and on the beach or near schools, for example, that makes a difference, albeit most smokers hate it and say they have the right to do whatever they want to their bodies, which is true to some extent, unless they ave kids or harm others with their second hand smoke.

    Thursday, November 11, 2010 12:53:48 PM

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    Tell Me (WhatToThink) wrote:

    Hard to imagine, but as a former smoker I can tell you that one does not need the FDA or anyone to tell you that smoking is bad for you, and no smoker would have believed that it wasn't harmful despite the industry's claims (as if stanley tools could tell me hitting myself on the head with a hammer was harmless and they'd somehow be culpable for me splitting my skull). Graphic pictures on packs is going to do nothing whatsoever.

    Thursday, November 11, 2010 12:41:05 PM

    James Broderick II (Amphitere)

    James Broderick II (Amphitere) wrote:

    jmar19: Sadly, what you say is not the case. There are still PLENTY of people who don't believe smoking is bad for you, and plenty MORE who don't believe smoking is /that/ bad for you. Sad, no?

    Thursday, November 11, 2010 12:20:39 PM

    who am (Inow)

    who am (Inow) wrote:

    PS as a smoker I am fine about the warnings. the stuff is way addictive. more so than opium according to the docs.

    Thursday, November 11, 2010 12:19:37 PM

    who am (Inow)

    who am (Inow) wrote:

    "Just today as I was walking down the street the man in front of me a couple of paces was smoking and I couldn't get out of the way without breathing in what came out of his lungs!"

    lol but the cars didn't bother you?

    Thursday, November 11, 2010 12:18:24 PM

    who am (Inow)

    who am (Inow) wrote:

    and the tabacco industry is going to use "freedom of speech' to say "NO"

    Thursday, November 11, 2010 12:16:04 PM

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    So what's the world's leading killer of young children? Malaria? AIDS? Diarrhea?

    Nope, it's acute respiratory infections – things like pneumonia, flu, respiratory syncytial virus, Hemophilus influenzae type B (Hib), and complications of measles. These lung infections will kill as many as 2 million children this year.

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    In developing countries, lung infections kill more people of any age than anything else.

    And, in fact, in developing countries lung infections kill more people of any age than anything else – nearly twice as many as HIV/AIDS, more than three times the toll from TB or malaria, in terms of total deaths.

     

    These findings come from a new "atlas" of acute respiratory infections released by the World Lung Foundation at the Union World Conference on Lung Health in Berlin today. It's the first compilation of global information on these neglected diseases.

    More than four million people die every year of acute respiratory infections, "yet the global health community doesn't even recognize them as a distinct disease group," says the WLF's Peter Baldini.

    The 124-page atlas argues that preventing millions of deaths is well within reach. For some diseases, such as pneumonia, measles, pertussis, flu and Hib, vaccines are available. Breastfeeding can also increase children's immunity to respiratory infections. And life-saving antibiotics can cost as little as 27 cents.

    In most cases the biggest hurdle is getting patients timely diagnosis and care. Only one in five caregivers in the developing world currently recognizes signs and symptoms of pneumonia, the WLF says. But wider availability of what the World Health Organization calls "standard case management," or prompt diagnosis and antibiotic treatment, along with more breastfeeding, could prevent millions of pneumonia deaths in the future.

     

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