Nursing 2230A/B Lecture Notes - Lecture 11: Antimicrobial Resistance, Septic Shock, Pressure Ulcer
9 Dec 2016
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Lecture 11 inflammation, infection, and healing ii. Penicillin founded by sir alexander fleming in 1928 over used. Agriculture unknown and unregulated antibiotic use. Creating burden of antibiotic resistance when entering environment. Who can name an antibiotic: flagyl, clavulin, amoxicillin. Side effects: gi diarrhea, constipation, n+v. Causes 9,000 infections in hospitals/facilities each year. Nearly half of hospital patients who get cre bloodstream infections die from them. Clostridium difficile (c. diff) is not highly resistant to antibiotics but does thrive. Drug-resistant gonorrhea (sti) now resists several antibiotics that used to cure it. Cdc estimates 30% of the 800,000 u. s. cases each year fit that description. when antibiotics are over-used. The bacteria cause 250,000 infections and 14,000 deaths each year. Promote healing/fight infection: rest, offending body i. e. remove splinter causing infection, tip of iv line, clean environment, nutrition, deep breathing and coughing. Cns (culture n sensitivity) smear and see what grows, antibiotic sensitivity/resistance. Acute vs. chronic, pressure, surgical, diabetic, venous, traumatic
