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- Planning Daily Activities With Parkinson’s Disease
- How Pain Serves as Your Body’s Warning Signal
- Nursing Care for Clostridium difficile–Associated Disease CDAC
- Treatment Clostridium difficile–Associated Disease : CDAD
- Preventing Clostridium difficile–Associated Disease CDAD
- Diagnosis Clostridium difficile
- Definition,Etiologi,Pathophysiology,Risk Factors,Clinical manifestations : Clostridium difficile–Associated Disease
- Understanding Zoloft Depression Better
| Planning Daily Activities With Parkinson’s Disease Posted: 27 Sep 2010 04:59 AM PDT Parkinson’s disease can affect many aspects of a person’s daily life. However, with careful planning and activity moderation, the effects of Parkinson’s can become much less stressful and intrusive. The following suggestions offer guidance to overcome some of the difficulties associated with the disease. Plan periods of rest. Be sure to get plenty of rest. You may need to plan at least one re
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| How Pain Serves as Your Body’s Warning Signal Posted: 27 Sep 2010 04:51 AM PDT Pain is like the warning lights on your car’s dashboard. It alerts you to something that needs investigation. Pain serves an important function. It’s your body’s way of saying, “Pay attention.” We all avoid pain. You wouldn’t knowingly slam your thumb in the car door or touch a hot stove. It’s human nature to avoid situations that cause pain, and we do what we can to r
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| Nursing Care for Clostridium difficile–Associated Disease CDAC Posted: 27 Sep 2010 03:50 AM PDT Clostridium difficile–Associated Disease CDAD is a complication encountered by patients hospitalized for other illnesses. Patients, therefore, must be monitored and treated for their underlying illness. In addition, they must be closely monitored for elevated white blood cell counts, fever, abdominal pain, and, most certainly, diarrhea. The goals of care include prevention of CDAD, early recognition and treatment
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| Treatment Clostridium difficile–Associated Disease : CDAD Posted: 27 Sep 2010 03:43 AM PDT The various treatments suggested for CDAD and their efficacy are matters of much debate. A review of basic and more recent innovative treatments follows (Table 3). As Bartlett14(p429) notes “It can be safely concluded that all of these treatments work some of the time, none work all of the time.” This comment reflects the confounding nature of CDAD and the necessity of impeccable nursing practices. Anti
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| Preventing Clostridium difficile–Associated Disease CDAD Posted: 27 Sep 2010 03:37 AM PDT Patients treated with antibiotics must be closely monitored for possible infection with C difficile. Patients who are elderly, have severe underlying illness, are immunocompromised, or have undergone surgery of the gastrointestinal tract also require heightened vigilance. Prevention of CDAD, however, entails multidisciplinary efforts to stem the disease for all patients. Three elements are required for prevention
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| Diagnosis Clostridium difficile Posted: 27 Sep 2010 03:34 AM PDT Diagnosis of CDAD is based on signs and symptoms, verification of the presence of toxins A and B in stool cultures, and, in many instances, detection of pseudomembranous colitis. Pseudomembranous colitis is verified via colonoscopy. Because of the risk of perforation and the cost of this test (mean, $1656 per test),24 experts suggest that colonoscopy be used with caution, and only for patients with severe colitis o
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| Posted: 27 Sep 2010 03:26 AM PDT Clostridium difficile–associated disease (CDAD) is a confounding complication. Experienced by patients in extended care facilities, acute care areas, and intensive care units, it has become increasingly prevalent in the United States since 2003, when 178000 cases were diagnosed.1 The rate of CDAD is 7 times higher in persons more than 65 years old than in persons from 45 to 64 years old.1 Possible explanations fo
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| Understanding Zoloft Depression Better Posted: 26 Sep 2010 11:19 PM PDT Always feeling under the weather? Always not in the mood to be around others and have a good time? If you're suffering from prolonged sadness for quite some time now, you should face these bouts of depression and get yourself diagnosed by a psychiatrist, they're doctors who can actually help you out with your problem. Also, with the introduction of Zoloft depression, the number one, most-prescribed medicine for
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