The patient was a 44 year-old male with a past medical history significant forhypertension, non-insulin-dependent diabetes, high cholesterol, and heavy smoking (2packs/day). He presented to the emergency room with complaints of chest pain and was found tohave suffered a myocardial infarction (heart attack). A cardiac catheterization on hospital day 3showed three arterial occlusions, and he underwent a triple-bypass on hospital day 5. On day 7,he developed septic shock with acute respiratory and renal failure, requiring intubation. He hada fever at that time of 39.3° C and two blood cultures were obtained. A chest x-ray showed leftlung pleural effusion and a chest tube was inserted to drain the effusion. On day 11, pus wasleaking from the sternal wound. Cultures derived from the wound and from the chest tube grewthe organism noted in figures 1 and 2. A Kirby-Bauer disk diffusion assay is shown in figure 3.Figure 1: Organism under 1000x#LEHET AALBUFEALTHO65greetsFigure 2: Organism grown on 5% BAPFigure 3: K-B disk diffusion assay.The organism is shown to beresistant gentamycin, oxacillin,penicillin, and erythromycin. Theorganism is sensitive to vacomycinand TMP/SMX. Assume you found that all of the patients above were infected with the same organism.What steps would you take to prevent further infections from occurring? Within youranswer, be sure to discuss how the organism is spread.

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Assume you found that all of the patients above were infected with the same organism. What steps would you take to prevent further infections from occurring? Within your answer, be sure to discuss how the organism is spread.

Assume you found that all of the patients above were infected with the same organism. What steps would you take to prevent further infections from occurring? Within your answer, be sure to discuss how the organism is spread.

Biomedical Instrumentation Systems

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Author:Chatterjee

Publisher:Chatterjee

Chapter9: Instrumentation In Blood Circulation

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