Treat Infection: A Case Study

In the last decade, the number of prescriptions for antibiotics has increases. Even though, antibiotics are helpful, an excess amount of antibiotics can be dangerous. Quite often antibiotics are wrongly prescribed to cure viruses when they are meant to target bacteria. Antibiotics are a type of medicine that is prone to kill microorganisms, or bacteria. By examining the PBS documentary Hunting the Nightmare Bacteria and the article “U.S. government taps GlaxoSmithKline for New Antibiotics” by Ben Hirschler as well as a few other articles can help depict the problem that is of doctors prescribing antibiotics wrongly or excessively, which can led to becoming harmful to the body.

The medical community has warned the public that this disaster would occur. Although with all warning nothing has been done to solve this situation. There has been causes from this dilemma. The first cause is the deadly infections that became aggressive. People were so frightened that they began starting to find a cure to the many infections. Now since antibiotics have been discovered it has taken over. It has created the world to become addictive to antibiotics. Antibiotics have led to a large misuse of the medication. “The CDC estimates that half of all antibiotics taken in the US are

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Infection control awareness was raised to inform the staff the important strategies used to prevent infection and how to prevent it. And also to make sure staff are abiding to hospital policies and procedure. I had conference meeting with Director of infection control nurse and infection control nurse.

Throughout the centuries the improvement of medicine has always been on the run. Whether the cure for a viral or bacterial infection to the simple cure of a common cold, advances in medicine can be said to have had a great impact in the lives of many in the U.S. and around the world. In the U.S. alone, the life expectancy of an American increased from 49 years to 77 years because of the new way of life in the health aspect. There is no doubt that antibiotics specifically, not to say the prevention of diseases by public health regulations including over-the-counter drugs and surgical procedures, have saved thousands or even millions of lives in the U.S and around the world. However, there are many cases in which antibiotics are being overused, which in effect cause more harm than good.

Antibiotic resistance had been a crisis in the United States for many years now. According to the CDC, “up to 50% of the time, antibiotics are not optimally prescribed, often done so when not needed, [or with] incorrect dosing or duration” (CDC). More and more bacteria are becoming antibiotic resistant mostly due to incorrect amount and length of dosage, while sometimes, even the actual antibiotic is incorrectly given to the patient. Because of this, many strains of bacteria had become resistant to these antibiotics and thus, have infected more and more

: Hospital acquired infections remain a costly problem. Each year there are approximately 2 million hospital acquired infections, 90,000 of which are fatal 1. Catheter-related bloodstream infections alone represent a potential burden on the healthcare system of at least $35billion 2. The main challenge is to prevent bacteria growth early before biofilm production takes place, since once the bacterial biofilm matrix forms, bacterial infections can become profoundly more resistant to the host defenses as well as antibiotic treatments 3. Barium sulfate (BaSO4) is a common agent used to make medical tubing radiopaque; however, in addition to this, BaSO4 polymeric formulations have been shown to exhibit antimicrobial activity4. Additional studies

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Per Dr. Williams, your chest x-ray does not show any overt infection, but we do see a questionable finding that may be early infection. He have ordered an antibiotic to take once a day for seven days. Please follow up with him in 10-14 days .If your symptoms progress or worsen go to the ER.

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Infections don’t always occur to some humans who are exposed to pathogens because of their overall health status and immune system. Although, there are numerous infections in the world that affect humans in harmful ways. Scientists for centuries have developed many drugs and antibiotics to cure infections like fungal, bacterial, common colds, flu, etc.

Signs of infection. Three days post-surgery, she developed an infection in her left knee as evidenced by a noticeable inflammation and purulent oozing. If this is not immediately addressed, she might develop some serious complications, considering that her diabetes also slows her healing process.

Hospital acquired infections (HAIs) is a major safety concern for both health care providers and the patients. Considering morbidity, mortality, increased length of stay and the cost, efforts should be made to make the hospitals as safe as possible by preventing such infections. These guidelines have been developed for health care personnel involved in patient care in wards and critical care areas and for persons responsible for surveillance and control of infections in hospital. (Mehta et al., 2014) These healthcare-associated infections (HAIs) include central line-associated bloodstream infections, catheter-associated urinary tract infections, and ventilator-associated pneumonia. Infections may also occur at surgery sites, known as surgical

The overuse of antibiotics has been a problem for well over a decade. This misuse leads to many nonvisible problems arising within the human population. As the use of antibiotics increases, the number of antibiotic resistant bacteria also increases. When bacteria become resistant to an antibiotic, another antibiotic must be used to try and kill it and the cycle becomes vicious. Michael Martin, Sapna Thottathil, and Thomas Newman stated that antimicrobial resistance is, “an increasingly serious threat to global public health that requires action across all government sectors and society” (2409).

The information put forth in this TED talk was regarding the manner treatment of disease was approached. But to discuss the future of medicine, he begins with addressing the past. The prior and current model has a downward motion and is “so profoundly simple is can be summarized in 6 words: Have disease -> Take pill -> Kill something” (TED 2015). This method has been dominant since the 1950’s because of the antibiotic revolution stemming from the introduction of antibiotics into the United States which took place over 100 years ago. The mechanism under which antibiotics function is likened to a lock and key and the specificity of the lock and key mechanism was so exquisite that fatal or lethal diseases, such as tuberculosis or pneumonia,